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World News tagged with children

Councils 'Losing' Care Children
World  (tags: children, missing, Care Leavers Association, child asylum seekers, UK )

Kelli
- 9 hours ago - localgov.co.uk
A new survey has found that at least 145 children have gone missing from council care homes in the past year.
6 comments
Protect Children From Crisis
World  (tags: children, government, health, education, families, poverty )

Kelli
- 10 hours ago - straitstimes.com
UNITED NATIONS- UN OFFICIALS on Thursday urged cash-strapped governments not to cut back spending on health and education, warning it could drive millions of children and families into the poverty trap.
1 comment
Gambia: Country's Witch Hunt Activity Brought to African Commission
World  (tags: children, corruption, crime, death, ethics, freedoms, government, HumanRights, Refugees&Relief, terrorism, violence, africa )

Kelli
- 2 days ago - childwitches.blogspot.com
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has on Thursday 12th November, brought to the attention of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Right the gross human rights violations that are committed in The Gambia and some African countries
6 comments
Tell Congress: End Global Hunger- Take Action
World  (tags: petition, world, politics, humanrights, government, freedoms, ethics, death, children )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - change.org
Almost 11 million children die each year before their fifth birthday, and 60 percent of those deaths are caused by malnutrition and hunger-related diseases. Worldwide, more than 1 billion people do not have enough to eat.
10 comments
Child Rape Epidemic in Zimbabwe
World  (tags: africa, children, conflict, corruption, crime, ethics, government, HumanRights, society, violence, rape as a weapon of war, rape virgin, rape children )

Kelli
- 7 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Tens of thousands of children have been sexually abused in Zimbabwe in a growing epidemic that has shocked human rights activists.
9 comments
Polygamy Enslaves Women. Make It Illegal World Wide.-Please Take Action !
World  (tags: humanrights, HumanRights, children, world, women, children )

Tierney
- 8 days ago - womensrights.change.org
Countries where polygamy is legal also have high rates of child abuse, gendercide, low literacy,child and female rape. Consequent to the lessening of the rights of one class of individuals, the areas that oppress women as a matter of law and/or indiffere
17 comments
END THE HUNGER SCANDAL-Please Take Action !
World  (tags: world, world wide hunger, unitednations, children, humans )

Tierney
- 8 days ago - avaaz.org
For the first time in human history, the number of people across the world suffering from hunger exceeds 1 billion -- one sixth of the world´s population.
14 comments
Mr. Netanyahu, Tear Down This Wall!
World  (tags: israel, palestine, the apartheid wall, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', conflict, crime, death, terrorism, violence, war, humans, children, freedoms, politics, society, corruption, war, violence, terrorism, world, death, crime, israel, ETHICS? )

David
- 10 days ago - justforeignpolicy.org
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall..."Their paeans to universal freedom ring hollow, when they bear large responsibility for another wall constricting human freedom: the apartheid wall dividing the Palestinian West Bank".
10 comments
Act Now! BAN ZIMBABWE BLOOD DIAMONDS [Avaaz Petition]
World  (tags: world, Zimbabwe, Mugabe, humanrights, children, 'blood' diamonds )

Janet
- 14 days ago - avaaz.org
Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe has sent his brutal army to seize control of his country's diamond fields. 200 civilians have been murdered and profits from our wedding rings are used to fuel violent political conflict.[thanks, Dandelion]
11 comments
Support Relief Efforts in Asia and the Pacific - The Petition Site
World  (tags: petition, world, UnitedNations, humanrights, Refugees&Relief, humans, death, children, ethics, government )

Daphna
- 21 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
According to estimates, the most recent earthquake in Indonesia killed upward of 500, and the number is expected to rise. In addition, tens of thousands were forced to leave their homes. And because of the back-to-back emergencies, there's be
7 comments
Take Action- Call On The U.N. To Act On Goldstone Gaza War Crimes Report
World  (tags: petition, UnitedNations, war, terrorism, israel, middle-east, palestine, humans, humanrights, crime, children, death, violence )

Daphna
- 24 days ago - change.org
On October 16, the United Nation's Human Rights Council in Geneva voted to endorse the Goldstone report -- the report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict headed by Justice Richard Goldstone. The Report was the produc
13 comments
A New Hope for Africa: Young Liberian Activist, Kimmie Weeks
World  (tags: war, africa, conflict, death, HumanRights, humans, interesting, children, Refugees&Relief, society, UnitedNations, world )

Daphna
- 27 days ago - gimundo.com
At ten years old, you were probably spending most of your time playing with Barbies or Matchbox cars. Not Kimmie Weeks: He was busy trying to save his country instead. Weeks, now 26, was born in the turbulent African nation of Li
4 comments
Gary Null Blows Whistle on the FDA, CDC and Big Pharma   video
World  (tags: children, crime, corruption, death, ethics, freedoms, government, humanrights, humans, usa, world )

Montagrap
- 30 days ago - youtube.com
Please be sitting down when viewing this video! It will blow your mind. Gary Null is addressing the New York State assembly about them Mandating Flu Shots for all GP's and the stats on why they need to scrap the idea!
25 comments
Churches Denounce African Children as "Witches"
World  (tags: children, conflict, corruption, crime, death, ethics, freedoms, HumanRights, violence, religion, murder, family, Churches, Churches denounce African children as "w, witches, Steping Stones Nigeria, Children's Rights and Rehabilitation Net )

Kelli
- 31 days ago - childwitches.blogspot.com
The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall. His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism.
6 comments
Netanyahu Denies War Crimes in Gaza? - War on Gaza: In Pictures & Words - You Be the Judge
World  (tags: israel, Gaza massacre, murder, violence, terrorism, crime, death, children, war, conflict, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', corruption, ethics )

David
- 33 days ago - videosift.com
Netanyahu claims Israel is innocent of war crimes in Gaza, but does he tell the truth?... THIS is an extremely graphic video which won't last long on youtube, containing images of Israeli lies and atrocities that will never been shown on TV.
58 comments
 
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