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143 Help the Child Witches of Nigeria - Support the Prevent Abandonment of Children Today(PACT) Campaign - The Petition Site World (tags: children, conflict, corruption, crime, death, ethics, freedoms, HumanRights, violence, child rights, abuse, abandonment, trafficking, child witches, torture ) Kelli - 53 days ago - thepetitionsite.com We call upon the Akwa Ibom State Government and the Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) to do everything in their powers to protect and save the lives of these innocent children. 24 comments \| visit site \| problem?
67 British Soldiers Accused of Sickening Sex Assault on Iraqi Boy, 14 World (tags: sexual abuse, torture, kids ) - 55 days ago - independent.co.uk British soldiers forced a boy of 14 to carry out an act of oral sex on a fellow male prisoner in Iraq, according to shocking new allegations made about the behaviour of British troops. 12 comments \| visit site \| problem?
30 Israeli Soldiers Assault, Abuse and Torture Palestinian Journalist World (tags: human, rights, palestine, Palestinian, journalist, Mohammed, Omer, abuse, torture, injustice, Israeli, security, forces, assault, police, soldiers, Israeli-Palestinian, conflict, crimes, war, terrorism, West Bank, Allenby bridge, checkpoints, border ) Doolie - 55 days ago - palestine-pmc.com Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer was detained by Israeli security forces who tortured and humiliated him for several hours. He suffered cracked ribs and various other injuries. He was on his way back from Europe where he won an award for journalism. add a comment \| visit site \| problem?
143 Children of Nigeria: Group Laments Existence of 15,000 Alleged Child 'Witches' in Akwa Ibom, Cross River World (tags: children, conflict, corruption, crime, death, ethics, freedoms, government, HumanRights, violence, child witches, trafficking, abandonment, torture, child abuse, street children, superstitious belief, corrupt pastors, child imprisonment, starved ) Kelli - 64 days ago - childwitches.blogspot.com AS the issue of child abuse rages in the country, over 15,000 children have been identified as abandoned and stigmatized as "witches" in Akwa Ibom and Cross River states. 14 comments \| visit site \| problem?
120 AP IMPACT: Kenyan Children Abducted, Tortured World (tags: children, conflict, crime, ethics, HumanRights, war, BUNGOMA, Kenya, torture, violence, beaten, Kenya, terrorized, militia, child soldiers, murder, United States, Britain, Human Rights Watch., missing children, disappearances, defense department in Nairobi ) Kelli - 74 days ago - childwitches.blogspot.com BUNGOMA, Kenya - Dozens of scared children filed silently into the bare room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor. One by one, in low voices, they told of being tortured by the Kenyan army because they were suspected of aiding rebels. 22 comments \| visit site \| problem?
88 Children of Nigeria: Child Rights Bill: Abandoned Children Protest in A'Ibom World (tags: children, protest, child rights, Child Rights Act, Child abandonment, Akwa Ibom State, Uyo, Nigeria, false prophets, witchcraft, child battering, governor, State House of Assembly, Stepping Stone Nigeria, torture, killing, buried alive ) Kelli - 81 days ago - childwitches.blogspot.com No fewer than 150 children marched through the streets of Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital to protest the delay by the state House of Assembly in passing the Child Rights Act. 9 comments \| visit site \| problem?
101 Update on Children Are Targets of Nigerian Witch Hunt's Petition. Group Calls For Ban Of Unhealthy Films World (tags: children, government, goodnews, HumanRights, violence, abuse, wirches, children's rights, death, torture, abandonedcorruption, crime ) Kelli - 90 days ago - childwitches.blogspot.com Addressing the media in Uyo, Akwa Ibom, after presenting a petition to the state governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, on how some children are being abandoned by their parents because they are presumed to be 'witches', the Programs Director, Gary Foxcroft, 12 comments \| visit site \| problem?
103 GOVERNMENT, UNICEF SIGN PACT World (tags: children, corruption, crime, death, ethics, government, goodnews, HumanRights, violence, torture, witches, abandoned-lost children ) Kelli - 90 days ago - childwitches.blogspot.com The 2008 program implementation agreement between Akwa Ibom and the United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF), has been formally signed by the state government. 9 comments \| visit site \| problem?
53 End to Afghan Prison Nightmare for Death-Penalty Student Convicted of Downloading Women's Rights Report ? World (tags: Human Rights, Afghanistan, young student, Internet, women's rights, web site, Islam, death sentence, torture, confession, no lawyer, fundamentalist groups, Afghan President, Hamid Karzai ) Jill - 101 days ago - independent.co.uk Pervez Kambaksh's case has become international cause célèbre with UK ForeignSecr'y & US Secr'y ofState raising his fate with Afghan govt. >100,000 signatures on petition by 'The Independent' readers. Will Karzai free him ? Tortured, no lawyer at trial.. 9 comments \| visit site \| problem?
119 What Hope for Street Children? World (tags: children, corruption, crime, death, government, HumanRights, violence, abuse, torture, abandonment, religion, street children, witches, poverty, homeless, CRARN ) Kelli - 104 days ago - childwitches.blogspot.com There are several camps at Esit Eket, a suburb of the town, where deliverance services that last long hours are conducted on suspected victims. 11 comments \| visit site \| problem?
75 The Sun News On-Line \| Back Page World (tags: children, africa, violence, poverty, trafficking, kidnapping, health care, abuse, torture ) Kelli - 107 days ago - sunnewsonline.com Poverty appears to be at the root of the high child mortality rates. The report confirmed that the children of the poor are three times more likely to die in childhood than the children of the rich. The poorest children in Nigeria and Mali, for example, w 8 comments \| visit site \| problem?
68 Medieval Violence in China World (tags: China, Torture, 'HUMANRIGHTS!' ) Ben - 117 days ago - unmadeinchina.org The Chinese regime, through fierce repression, desires to maintain the entire population in terror and ignorance... 7 comments \| visit site \| problem?
59 What About the War, Benedict? World (tags: war, violence, Catholic, pope, Benedict XVI, torture, execution, war. Christianity ) Madalena - 136 days ago - consortiumnews.com ...Is it possible that papal advisers forgot to tell him that the post-WWII Nuremberg Tribunal described an unprovoked war of aggression, of the kind that the Third Reich and George W. Bush launched, as the "supreme international crime, differing from oth 8 comments \| visit site \| problem?
50 Status of Chinese People in China World (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', china, crime, death, corruption, torture ) Laura - 146 days ago - chinaview.wordpress.com This is not easy information to read or view, but I believe that SOMEONE has to bare witness to the hell these people are enduring and dying over. I HAVE TO continue to BOYCOTT China, until they stop torturing people and animals. Somehow they must stop. 4 comments \| visit site \| problem?
48 UK Deportation Policy Questioned By Court World (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', injustice, torture ) Elisa - 149 days ago - amnesty.org The UK government's policy of "deportation with assurances" was called into question on Wednesday by decisions of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in two key cases. add a comment \| visit site \| problem?

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