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Another view: The South takes the pictures: New Internationalist August 2007 - #403
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2007
A look at the states of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, and South Africa and their experience of change presented in pictures.
Australia's 'stolen' children get apology but no cash
McMahon, Barbara
Article
2008
The stolen generations were Aboriginal children - mainly mixed race - who were removed from their families and sent to institutions or adopted into white families during the last century. Some childre...
Baby remains found in mass grave at ex-Irish orphanage
Article
2017
Remains of children ranging from new-born to three-years-old discovered in the sewers of a former children's home run by the Roman Catholic Church.
The Best of The Nation: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture
Navasky, Victor; Heavel, Katrina Vanden
Book
2000
An anthology of articles from The Nation.
Broken Circle
Fontaine, Theodore
Film/Video
2011
A two-part excerpt from Theodore Fontaine's book Broken Circle, a memoir of surviving the Fort Alexander Indian Residential School in Manitoba -- and pursuing his own path to healing.
Communism and the Family (Part One): The Marxist Approach to Women's Liberation
Article
2015
Replacing the family with collective institutions is the most radical aspect of the communist program and will bring about the deepest, most sweeping changes in daily life, not least for children.
Connexions: Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1982
Criminalizing First-Graders: Arrested and Handcuffed for Tantrums
Brauchli, Christopher
Article
2010
All across the nation, schools have adopted draconian zero-tolerance policies that treat children like criminals and turn schools into prison-like environments.
The Gladys We Never Knew
Knickerbocker, Nancy
Article
2015
According to the Vital Statistics Act document entitled ''RETURN OF DEATH OF AN INDIAN,'' Gladys Chapman was 12 years, 10 months, and 12 days old on April 29, 1931, when she died in Royal Inland Hospi...
Grieve the Beloved Children: Israel and the War on Children
Deutsch, Judith
Article
2018
A discussion of Israel's tactics in its campaign against Palestinians, which includes the use of deliberate provocation to incite retaliation, and the disturbing reality that results in large numbers ...
The Mother Behind the Galway Children's Mass Grave Story: 'I Want to Know Who's Down There'
Gentleman, Amelia
Article
2014
It was amateur historian Catherine Corless's painstaking research that brought news of the children's mass grave in Tuam to the world's attention. She tells how her search for the truth turned her lif...
Ordeal of Australia's child migrants
Bryant, Nick
Article
2009
The story of the British child migrants sent to Australia has been described as a history of lies, deceit, cruelty and official disinterest and neglect.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 31, 2014: Truth, justice and reconciliation
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2014
Articles on truth, justice and reconciliation efforts in countries affected by civil war or internal conflict; Bone Collectors: the fate of the remains of Australian aboriginal people stolen from thei...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015: Residential schools
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assim...
Our Spirits Don't Speak English
Richie, Chip (director)
Film/Video
2008
A documentary film about the Native American boarding schools.
Pedophiles and Popes: Doing the Vatican Shuffle
Parenti, Michael
Article
2010
Church leaders seem to forget that pedophilia is a felony crime and that, as citizens of a secular state, priests are subject to its laws just like the rest of us. Clerical authorities repeatedly have...
Police Say Tasering 8-Year-Old Native American Girl Was Justified
Article
2014
The mother of an 8-year-old Native American girl is suing police who maintain that they were justified in using a taser on the child. The family lives in Pierre, South Dakota and belong to the Rosebud...
The Rape of Irish Children
McCann, Eamonn
Article
2009
A State which had genuine concern for its children would have responded to the report by taking decisive action to remove the Catholic bishops as patrons of primary schools. Three thousand of 3,200 pr...
Shedding Light on Forced Child Pregnancy and Motherhood in Latin America
Jara, Mariela
Article
2019
Research and campaigns by women's rights advocates are beginning to focus on the problem of Latin American girls who are forced to bear the children of their rapists, with the lifelong implications th...
Sleeping Children Awake
Hanah, Rhonda Kara
Film/Video
1992
A feature length documentary video outlining the history of the residential school system and its effect on generations of First Nations’ people in Canada.
Still Surviving: Reconciliation Through Everyday Rebellion
Mast, Meghan
Article
2015
Residential school survivors rebuild through small acts of hope and resistance.
Street children: New Internationalist April 2005 - #377
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2005
A look at the lives of street children around the world. Discussion of the challenges they face day-to-day and what some are forced to do to survive.
Strip-Searching Children: Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Checkpoints
Weir, Alison
Article
2007
Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades.
Torturing and Jailing Palestinian Children: Nightmare in the Occupied Territories
Abbas, Ziad
Article
2013
About 500-700 children are arrested by the Israeli occupation every year, according to Defense for Children International-Palestine. These children face a policy designed to kill their spirit and shut...
UN Battle to 'Shame' Israel Over Abuse of Children
Cook, Jonathan
Article
2015
Palestinian solidarity groups have taken to social media to step up the pressure on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to include Israel for the first time on a "shame list" of serious viola...
We Were Children
Wolochatiuk, Tim
Film/Video
2012
A 2012 documentary film about the experiences of First Nations children in the Canadian Indian residential school system.

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Beyond Borders -- Ensuring Global Justice for Children
Beyond Borders, a charitable organization, works to end all sexual crimes against children, especially cross-border crimes including sex tourism and child pornography. Beyond Borders is the Canadian a...

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Bethany Home
Wikipedia article
Bethany Home (sometimes called Bethany House or Bethany Mother and Child Home) was a residential home in Dublin, Ireland mainly for women of the Protestant faith, who were convicted of petty theft, pr...
Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home
Wikipedia article
The Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, St Mary's Mother and Baby Home, or simply The Home, was a maternity home for unmarried mothers and their children that operated between 1925 and 1961 in Tuam, Cou...
Duplessis Orphans
Wikipedia article
The Duplessis Orphans (French: les Orphelins de Duplessis) were the victims of a scheme in which approximately 20,000 orphaned children were falsely certified as mentally ill by the government of the ...
Ely Hospital
Wikipedia article
Ely Hospital was a large psychiatric institution near Cardiff, Wales which closed in 1996.The hospital was the subject of an inquiry set up by Brian Abel-Smith into abuse of patients in 1969 after all...
Endemic rape and abuse of Irish children in Catholic care, inquiry finds
McDonald, Henry
2009
Beatings and humiliation by nuns and priests were common at institutions that held up to 30,000 children, Ryan report states.
Forced adoption in Australia
Wikipedia article
Forced adoption was the practice of taking the babies of unmarried mothers against their will and putting them up for adoption.
Forgotten Australians
Wikipedia article
Forgotten Australians is a contested term applied by some to the estimated 500,000 children and child migrants who experienced care in institutions or outside a home setting in Australia during the 20...
Galway historian reveals truth behind 800 orphans in mass grave
O'Doherty, Cahir
2014
There is a growing international scandal around the history of The Home, a grim 1840's workhouse in Tuam in Galway built on seven acres that was taken over in 1925 by the Bon Secours sisters, who turn...
Home Children
Wikipedia article
Home Children was the child migration scheme founded by Annie MacPherson in 1869, under which more than 100,000 children were sent from the United Kingdom to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South ...
Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future
Summary of the final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
2015
The summary of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: the product of a five-year process of hearing from survivors and compiling evidence. The report calls the schools agents of ...
Hundreds of Scottish Orphanage Children Allegedly Buried in Mass Grave
High infant mortality rate and allegations of abuse raise suspicions of Smyllum Park in Lanark, once run by Catholic nuns
Bowcott, Owen
2017
The Scottish child abuse inquiry is to investigate claims that the bodies of at least 400 children from an orphanage once run by Catholic nuns are buried in an unmarked mass grave.The Smyllum Park orp...
Israeli soldiers filmed harassing schoolchildren in occupied Hebron
2017
Footage shot in Hebron in occupied Palestinian territory shows Israeli soldiers routinely harassing teachers and schoolchildren on a number of occasions. Rights activists say it is part of a state pol...
Jersey child abuse investigation 2008
Wikipedia article
The Jersey child abuse investigation 2008 was an investigation into historic child abuse in Jersey.
North Wales child abuse scandal
Wikipedia article
The North Wales child abuse scandal was the subject of a three-year, £13 million investigation into the physical and sexual abuse of children in care homes in the counties of Clwyd and Gwynedd, in Nor...
Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry
Wikipedia article
The 2014-2016 Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, often referred to as the HIA Inquiry, is the largest inquiry into historical institutional sexual and physical abuse of children ...
Province ignored whistleblowers who warned about child abuse at its training schools
An ongoing Star investigation of alleged physical, sexual and emotional abuse at the schools for troubled youth between the 1960s and the 19
Wallace, Kenyon
2017
An investigation of alleged physical, sexual and emotional abuse at Ontario training schools between the 1960s and the 1980s found that two officials warned the province of brutal and sadistic treatm...
Stolen Generations
Wikipedia article
The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and ...
Uk needs modern mosques
The third generation of British Muslims still don't have mosques that teach compassion and citizenship
Baig, Anila
2011
An Islamic woman's opinion column mourns the lack of modern mosques in England. She discusses her search for a place where her children could learn Arabic and how to read the Qu'ran without facing vio...