Oral Statement at the United Nations

Oral Statement at the United Nations

The Second Substantive Session of the PrepComm for the General Assembly’s Special Session on Children. — Madame Chair, Members of the Bureau, Honourable Delegates, NGO-colleagues. The NGO which I am representing here is a network of 70 sections called...
The Children’s Rights crisis in Sierra Leone

The Children’s Rights crisis in Sierra Leone

In 1983 Defence for Children International (DCI) published the first issue o{ the International Chillren’s Rights Monitor. The Monitor, created as an advocacy tool for fueling and enlarging the debate on the rights of the child, offered various kinds of...

Hospital and Handcuffs

How two wounded Palestinian youths were handcuffed to their beds in Hadassah Hospital by Guy Hessel in: Palestine Israel Journal Vol.3 Nos. 3 & 4 1996 On Wednesday, October 9, 1996, 14-year-old Mu’taz Jaradat and 17-year-old Ghaleb al-Farukh, from the...