To mark the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a press release on April 30 titled “100 Days of Fighting Fake News.” At the top of the list, the Trump administration rails against the media for “FALSELY” — in all caps — reporting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been deporting U.S. citizen children. “In both cases,”…
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Federal immigration authorities deported three U.S. citizen children on Friday — including one with cancer who was reportedly expelled without medication — in a move that critics and one judge appointed by President Donald Trump said was carried out without due process. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) New Orleans field office deported the American children — ages 2, 4…
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Alamogordo, NM – Holloman (Drone Training) AFB – Anti-drone activists from across the U.S. shut down the West Gate entrance here at Holloman AFB early Wednesday morning – with one arrest – for nearly an hour in the 3rd annual “week of resistance” to the covert U.S. Drone Warfare Program.
Activists donned signs with names and ages of young Gazan children’s killed, and blocked traffic while chanting “15 thousand children killed in Gaza. No drones for genocide.”
One protester, Toby Blomé, was arrested after lying down on pavement in front of a stalled car when military police threatened to arrest her.
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Alamogordo, NM – Holloman (Drone Training) AFB – Anti-drone activists from across the U.S. shut down the West Gate entrance here at Holloman AFB early Wednesday morning – with one arrest – for nearly an hour in the 3rd annual “week of resistance” to the covert U.S. Drone Warfare Program.
Activists donned signs with names and ages of young Gazan children’s killed, and blocked traffic while chanting “15 thousand children killed in Gaza. No drones for genocide.”
One protester, Toby Blomé, was arrested after lying down on pavement in front of a stalled car when military police threatened to arrest her.
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Four weeks after a devastating earthquake in central Myanmar, a local charity has retrieved dust-covered backpacks, water bottles and lunch boxes from the rubble of “Bright Kids” pre-school in Sagaing city and returned those belongings to tearful parents.
Bright Kids had about 20 children attending when the 7.7 magnitude quake struck on March 28, killing more than 3,700 people. Seven children and one teacher died when the school collapsed.
Nam Latt Social Relief Association helped clear the building on Thursday. Children’s belongings were recovered from heaps of masonry and twisted rebar as a backhoe clawed through the wreckage.
The association’s Sai Thiha Naing wrote on social media that today was a day when all the team members shed tears and helped the children who died.
The bodies of the children had been recovered a few hours after the quake when rescuers accessed the crushed interior of the school through a hole in a brick wall at the base of the building.
According to state media, more than 2,500 schools were damaged in the earthquake.
Sagaing was near the epicenter. It is a region that’s also been a focus of bitter fighting between Myanmar’s military rulers and anti-junta forces since a 2021 coup.
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Cuts by the Trump administration are putting children at risk, according to a new report by ProPublica. The administration has cut funds and manpower for child abuse investigations, enforcement of child support payments, child care and more. On top of that, Head Start preschools, which offer free child care to low-income parents, are being severely gutted. Democracy Now! speaks with ProPublica reporter Eli Hager on his investigation into Trump’s “War on Children.”
“It wasn’t just cuts to these more liberal-coded programs like support for child care and direct assistance to lower-income families with children, but also these programs that have much more support across the political spectrum, like funds and staffing for investigating child abuse and Child Protective Services,” says Hager.
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Adrinda Kelly watched from New York as Hurricane Katrina swallowed her hometown of New Orleans in 2005. Floodwaters rose, neighborhoods disappeared underwater, and she felt a familiar ache deepen.
Her family was safe, but devastation quickly compounded a painful realization: Black children were portrayed as disposable, and New Orleans’ education system was almost completely privatized. Black students’ test scores faltered.
Almost two decades later and nearly 2,000 miles away, similar echoes reverberated in Altadena, California, as wildfires swept through Los Angeles County in January.
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LNP admits legislation contradicts international and domestic human rights and would disproportionately affect Indigenous children
Children as young as 10 could be sentenced to life behind bars for some non-violent offences under new youth justice laws in Queensland.
The legislation, introduced into parliament by premier David Crisafulli on Tuesday, would also curtail children’s rights to protection from cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment while locked up, and contradict international and domestic human rights laws, the government has admitted.
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At the rural orphanage where I volunteered, the place resembled a Dickensian workhouse. The staff’s main tools were antipsychotics and violence. The experience gave me a window into Putin’s Russia
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Human Rights Watch spoke to 33 Aboriginal parents who between them have had 114 children removed and placed in out-of-home care
Warning: this story contains distressing descriptions of violence
Briana* was just starting to get a handle on the unpredictability of feeding, bottles and all that comes with a newborn when she received an email informing her she had lost custody of her three-month-old son.
Days later, child protection authorities took her child. With him, they took many of the milestones the 36-year-old first-time mother was looking forward to. “I’m going to miss those first words, the first rollover, everything,” she says.
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Myanmar junta bombed a medical clinic in Magway region Saturday morning, killing 11, including medical staff and children, despite no recent battles between junta forces and anti-junta militias in the area, residents told Radio Free Asia.
Magway region, located in central Myanmar, rife with fighting between junta forces that seized power in a 2021 military coup and insurgent militias fighting for democracy, often faces some of the armed forces’ most violent attacks.
“We found 11 bodies. There were five children,” said a resident in the region’s Gangaw township, who declined to be named for security reasons. “Everyone was a civilian.”
The National Unity Government, Myanmar’s government in exile, also confirmed on Sunday that the attack killed 40-year-old Mya Soe Aung, a doctor, his wife, 39-year-old Khaing Hnin Wai, a nurse who was four months pregnant, their five-year-old son and eight other patients waiting on medical care.
Mya Soe Aung and Khaing Hnin Wei used to work at Sagaing region’s Tin Thar District Hospital and participated in the Civil Disobedience Movement, which began in February 2021 as a peaceful resistance against the military coup.
Led by healthcare workers and activists, it involved mass strikes and protests despite brutal crackdowns, symbolizing the fight for democracy.
Both continued to treat patients in Sagaing and Magway regions after leaving their positions.
Prisoners found dead
Separately, residents told RFA that bodies of four civilians arrested by junta troops were recovered in north Kya Pin village, roughly 186 kilometers (115 miles) south in Magway region’s Salin township, on Saturday.
The four were arrested during mass raids by junta on Kya Pin and 24 other villages, said a member of a regional administrative group, who asked to remain nameless for fear of reprisals.
He identified the victims as two men aged 40 and 50 years old, and two others around 60 years old.
“The bodies were dumped in an old toilet pit inside of Kya Pin’s school,” he said. “Because we can’t get a hold of them, we can’t move them to the cemetery and have to fill the area with sand.”
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In nearby Koke Ko Tan and Nay Pu Khan villages, junta forces torched more than 100 homes, burning a 55-year-old woman to death, he said.
Due to the junta raid, roughly 17,000 villagers have been unable to return to their homes, he added.
Magway region’s junta spokesperson Myo Myint has not responded to RFA’s inquiries.
According to a March 21 report by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, junta attacks have claimed the lives of 6,435 civilians across the country since the coup.
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Venezuela has categorically condemned the United States government’s persecution of Venezuelans in the US, calling it an “infamous and unjust criminalization of Venezuelan migrants.” The Venezuelan government’s official statement in this regard, issued on Sunday, March 16, likens Washington’s position to “the darkest episodes in human history, from slavery to the horrors of Nazi concentration camps.”
The statement condemned in strong terms the persecution of Venezuelan citizens in the US, including the expropriation of their personal property, assets, businesses, vehicles, and bank accounts.
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After a four-day mission to the West Bank and Gaza, a top official for the United Nations’ children’s welfare agency on Sunday described the effects that Israel’s blockade on all humanitarian aid into the latter territory has had on roughly 1 million children in recent weeks, and demanded that lifesaving essentials — currently “stalled just a few dozen kilometers outside the Gaza Strip” — be…
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Here in this deep blue state, a coalition of judges, attorneys, youth advocates, civil liberties and racial justice organizations are trying to persuade Maryland lawmakers to amend Draconian legislation that requires prosecutors to charge children as young as 10 in adult criminal court for a wide range of felony offenses.
At issue is Senate Bill 422 , which, if passed by Maryland’s General Assembly in this legislative session, would reduce by nearly two-thirds the 33 criminal offenses for which juveniles in Maryland are automatically charged as adults.
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At the rural orphanage where I volunteered, the place resembled a Dickensian workhouse. The staff’s main tools were antipsychotics and violence. The experience gave me a window into Putin’s Russia
In the summer of 2007, I joined a group of 30 Russian and English students to work on a month-long summer camp at a state orphanage for mentally and physically disabled children in the Pskov region, south of St Petersburg. We lived in a house nearby, or in tents pitched in the garden. Every day, we walked up to the orphanage to put on developmental activities, sporting events, solve puzzles, play games, stage shows and go on camping trips.
I volunteered at the orphanage, in the village of Belskoye Ustye, for almost a decade, but it was the first visit that made the biggest impression. I had seen nothing like it. My closest reference point was probably workhouses or orphanages from a Charles Dickens novel. I vividly remember the smells – cooked food, unwashed bodies, chlorine and urine – and how the children crowded you, grabbing hands and clothes, pinching, pulling hair, jostling and asking questions. Dressed in an odd collection of what seemed to be adult castoffs, the kids spent most of their waking hours in rooms furnished with just a few scuffed tables and chairs, a bookcase and television. At night, and for long periods during the day, cast-iron metal grilles across corridors were locked, confining the older teenagers to their dormitories at one end. Children vulnerable to self-harm were tied up.
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When the Australian government passed legislation in November last year banning young people under 16 from social media, it included exemptions for platforms “that are primarily for the purposes of education and health support”. One such platform was YouTube. The government is currently conducting private consultations with the tech industry over how the social media…
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A so-called “ceasefire” has done nothing to halt the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. Israel’s government is escalating policies that jeopardize the very lives of Palestinian children, and powerful nations are complicit through their silence or direct endorsement. Even now, terror and bloodshed continue in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, while the U.S. administration signals tacit support for what amounts to ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
Under the Biden administration, sanctions were imposed on extremist Israeli settlers—17 individuals and 16 entities over 11 months—to curb violence against Palestinians.
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The recently leaked document provides new insight into how China characterizes extremist threats.
More than three quarters of the names on a recently leaked Chinese government list of some 10,000 “suspected terrorists” are ethnic Uyghurs, while the document includes hundreds of minors and the elderly, providing rare insight into how Beijing characterizes threats it has used to lock up more than a million people.
In 2020, a group of Australian hackers obtained the list, which was culled from more than 1 million surveillance records compiled by the Shanghai Public Security Bureau “Technology Division” and, after vetting it for authenticity, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) published it last month.
The PSB unit is responsible for building databases and “image, wireless, and wired communication systems,” according to ABC, and experts say it most likely determines who should be placed on watchlists and further investigated as potential threats to the state.
Most of the entries on the document, which RFA’s Uyghur Service has obtained a copy of and refers to as the “Shanghai List,” include dates of birth, places of residence, ID numbers, ethnicity, and gender of the individuals, nearly all of whom are referred to as “suspected terrorists,” although some are identified as having “created disturbances.” More than 7,600 of the people listed on the document are ethnic Uyghurs, while the rest are mostly Kazakh and Kyrgyz, fellow Turkic Muslims.
The list, which analysts believe was compiled in 2018 at the latest, contains entries for individuals from all walks of life in Uyghur society, including ordinary citizens, children as young as five and six years old, senior citizens in their 80s, and Uyghurs who have lived and traveled abroad, as well as Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) who have never been abroad before.
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Record numbers of Palestinian children are being held without charges by Israel, a Palestinian children’s rights group reports, as international leaders and corporate news outlets focus mainly on Israeli captives in Gaza. Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) said in a report on Monday that, as of December 31, 112 Palestinian children were being held in administrative detention…
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Yousif Fadhel AlTooq was a 15-year-old minor and school student when Bahraini authorities arrested him without a warrant on 8 August 2024 after summoning him to the Sitra Police Station. During his detention, he has endured torture, denial of family visits, denial of access to legal counsel, deprivation of his right to education, withholding of drinking water and adequate winter clothing, as well as limited phone communication with his family. He has been held in the Juvenile section of the Dry Dock Detention Center for five months, awaiting trial.
On 8 August 2024, Yousif and his family received a phone call from the Sitra Police Station summoning him for questioning without providing any reason. His parents drove him there after assurances that he would be released immediately following the interrogation. Upon arrival, Yousif was transferred from the Sitra Police Station to the Qudaibiya Police Station. Although his family followed him, they were denied access to visit him.
At the Qudaibiya Police Station, officers interrogated and tortured Yousif without legal representation or the presence of a guardian, despite his status as a minor. While subjected to psychological pressure, threats, and various forms of torture, Yousif refrained from sharing details with his family to spare their feelings. Despite the abuse and the fear he endured, Yousif did not confess to the charges against him. His case relies solely on forced false verbal confessions extracted from friends who were arrested with him in connection to political cases, and no evidence has been presented to support the charges. The next day, he was brought before the Public Prosecution Office (PPO), again without a lawyer or guardian present. Throughout the interrogation and his appearance at the PPO, Yousif was denied legal counsel, as his family lacked the financial resources to appoint a lawyer, and the PPO failed to provide one. Following his appearance at the PPO, Yousif spent one night at the Nabih Saleh Police Station before being transferred to the Juvenile section of the Dry Dock Detention Center, where he remains detained. Two days later, he was briefly allowed to contact his family, informing them of a one-week detention in the Juvenile section of the Dry Dock Detention Center.
Yousif was denied legal counsel during his interrogation and continues to be denied legal representation during his pre-trial detention. His family lacks the financial means to appoint a lawyer, and the PPO has failed to provide one. The PPO has repeatedly extended his detention before referring him to trial, relying solely on forced false verbal confessions extracted from friends arrested alongside him in connection to political cases, which are being used as evidence against him. Yousif is currently awaiting his repeatedly postponed trial. While the investigator has leveled various charges against others in his group, Yousif’s specific charges remain unclear. The charges known so far are 1) burning tires, 2) acts of vandalism, and 3) attacking the Sitra Police Station.
Since his arrest, Bahraini authorities have barred Yousif’s family from visiting him at the Dry Dock Detention Center. He has only been able to make two video calls with his family since his arrest, with the costs deducted from their account. His sole means of communication is through voice calls, which allow him to contact his family two to three times a week, each lasting 10 minutes. Yousif’s family has also reported periods of disconnection, sometimes extending for an entire week, as part of collective punishment imposed on detainees. Moreover, Yousif has at times been denied drinking water and, in the current cold weather, lacks adequate clothing to stay warm.
Yousif’s detention has caused him to miss an entire school year, as the Dry Dock Detention Center administration has deprived him of his right to education during his detention. As a second-year secondary school student specializing in an industrial major, Yousif needs to complete practical courses to progress academically. Furthermore, his detention facility lacks recreational, vocational, or educational programs to support his development.
Yousif’s parents have submitted several complaints to the Ombudsman and the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) requesting his release and the resumption of his education. Although a representative from one of these institutions met with Yousif and acknowledged his urgent need to return to school, no actions have been taken. The complaints have been closed, and Yousif has lost his entire academic year.
Yousif’s warrantless arrest as a minor, torture, denial of legal counsel and family visits, restricted family phone contact, deprivation of his right to education, withholding of drinking water and adequate winter clothing, and prolonged arbitrary pre-trial detention constitute clear violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), and the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, also know as the Nelson Mandela Rules, to which Bahrain is a party.
Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) calls upon Bahraini authorities to fulfill their human rights obligations by immediately and unconditionally releasing Yousif. ADHRB further urges the Bahraini government to investigate allegations of arbitrary arrest, torture, denial of legal counsel and family visits, restricted family phone contact, deprivation of education, and withholding of drinking water and adequate winter clothing, and to hold the perpetrators accountable. ADHRB also demands compensation for the violations Yousif has suffered in detention. At the very least, ADHRB advocates for a prompt, fair trial for Yousif under the Bahraini Restorative Justice Law for Children, and in accordance with international legal standards, leading to his release. Furthermore, ADHRB calls on Bahraini authorities to allow family visits for Yousif, provide him with adequate winter clothing, allow him to resume his education, and offer the necessary support to enable him to complete his studies.
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