Women For Freedom.
Sojourner Truth
Tania Bunke
Frida Kahlo
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Angela Davis
Octavia Butler
Leila Khalid
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In the least developed countries, 30 percent of all children are engaged in child labor. Nepal, 1983.
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”My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn’t put no dogs on me, they didn’t rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father. Shoot them for what? How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail.”
- Muhammad Ali on the Vietnam War-Draft
UNICEF: Israel mistreats Palestinian children in custody
06/03/2013
JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Palestinian children detained by the Israeli military are subject to widespread, systematic ill-treatment that violates international law, a UNICEF report said on Wednesday.
The United Nations Children Fund estimated that 700 Palestinian children aged 12 to 17, most of them boys, are arrested, interrogated and detained by the Israeli military, police and security agents every year in the occupied West Bank.
According to the report, most of the youths are arrested for throwing stones. Israel says it takes such incidents seriously, noting that rock-throwing has caused Israeli deaths.
UNICEF said it had identified some examples of practices that “amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention against Torture”.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said officials from the ministry and the Israeli military had cooperated with UNICEF in its work on the report, with the goal of improving the treatment of Palestinian minors in custody.
“Israel will study the conclusions and will work to implement them through ongoing cooperation with UNICEF, whose work we value and respect,” he said.
According to the report, ill-treatment of Palestinian minors typically begins with the arrest itself, often carried out in the middle of the night by heavily armed soldiers, and continues all the way through prosecution and sentencing.
“The pattern of ill-treatment includes … the practice of blindfolding children and tying their hands with plastic ties, physical and verbal abuse during transfer to an interrogation site, including the use of painful restraints,” the report said.
It said minors suffered physical violence and threats during their interrogation, were coerced into confession and not given immediate access to a lawyer or family during questioning.
“Treatment inconsistent with child rights continues during court appearances, including shackling of children, denial of bail and imposition of custodial sentences and transfer of children outside occupied Palestinian territory to serve their sentences inside Israel,” the report said.
Such practice “appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalised”, it added.
How long will the world turn a blind eye?
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Founder of a free school for slum children Rajesh Kumar Sharma, second from right, and Laxmi Chandra, right, write on black boards, painted on a building wall, at a free school run under a metro bridge in New Delhi, India. At least 30 children living in the nearby slums have been receiving free education from this school for the last three years.
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Saleh, an Iraqi child, drawing airplanes that are dropping bombs, with a marker taped to his amputated arm.
This is probably the picture that has moved me the most ever since i started tumblr. I always go back to look at it on my blog. Words can’t explain the emotions that I go through when I look at this boy. I seriously just want to hug him tight. No child deserves to end up in this state.
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5 Broken Cameras
Oscar nominated film about Israeli Occupation screened to Israeli youth. See their reactions, it gives a lot of hope!
