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When Kurdish children are called 'liars' by a State Minister
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04 April 2012
Once again abuses in Turkish prison are making headlines. Actually, to be honest, they did not make headlines for many days but then allegations were so serious that even the most reluctant main stream media had to run a story about it. Seven young prisoners, aged between 13 and 17, have denounced they have been sexually and physically abused while in Pozantı prison. Indeed the young boys had exposed the harassment and abuse back in June and the Human Rights Association (IHD) had indeed reported the allegations to the Human Rights Parliamentary Commission. So the news of the abuse was not, strictly speaking, new. Nor was it new the dismissal of such serious allegations by the Turkish authorities.
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Seventeen kids on hunger strike in Mersin prison
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25 January 2012
The kids had joined the funeral of guerrilla Sadık Kaya on 6 October 2011 together with hundreds of people.
They had been taken into custody after the funeral and accused of making propaganda for an illegal organization.
Speaking to ANF Emine Orhan, mother of jailed 16 years old Jiyan Orhan, said the kids are not in good condition. "The kids - said EMine Orhan who visit her daugther her week - have been left in a cell, no judge have called them yet".
Mersin Human Rights Association (IHD) had released on Tuesday the worring reality of kids in prison. Indeed there are 130 kids under 18 in Mersin jail. They are all charged with "throwing stones at the police" and "joining demonstrations".
The Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had vowed to do "whatever it takes" to crash Kurdish resistance, "men, women, children, no matter what they are I would do whatever it takes".
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Child Labor in Uzbekistan
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29 October 2010
By Nils Klawitter and Wladimir Pyljow
REUTERS
Every autumn, children in Uzbekistan are forced to work in the cotton harvest, for little pay. German companies are among those profiting from this violation of human rights.
In Uzbekistan, summer vacation begins in mid-September, when the heat subsides. It lasts about two months, but many schoolchildren hardly even see their parents during this time. Instead they are required to serve their country by picking cotton.
An obscure ritual dating back to the former Soviet command economy unfolds during the autumn harvest season in the Central Asian republic, when President Islam Karimov mobilizes the masses. About 2 million schoolchildren are then ordered to work in the fields and harvest the "white gold," as cotton has been known since the days of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. In addition to natural gas and gold, cotton is one of the most important sources of hard currency for the Uzbek elite. The price of cotton is currently at its highest since trading began 140 years ago.
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Report advocates bilingual education to promote Kurdish
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25 October 2010
ANKARA
Kurdish children who start school with poor Turkish are facing many difficulties and usually are not able to continue their education, a report issued by Diyarbakır Political and Social Research Institute (DİSA) pointed out. The report, prepared by Vahap Çoşkun, Şerif Derince and Nesrin Uçarlar following face to face interviews with students, their families, teachers who do not speak Kurdish and teachers who do know Kurdish, suggests a bilingual education system as a solution.
The research, which came about with the cooperation of the Heinrich Boll Foundation, Chrest Foundation and Global Dialogue, notes that that one of the very first Turkish words that Kurdish children learn in the school is “be quite.” According to students interviewed in the study, they quickly discovered that they were not allowed to speak in Kurdish even during breaks and had a strong feeling of alienation and desire to return home as soon as possible.Read 5 Comments... >>
5 Children Arrested for School Boycott Campaign
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25 September 2010
Ayhan Demirel, Tutak district chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), and five children were arrested by the police when they were handing out leaflets related to the school boycott campaign initiated in the Kurdish-majority region of south-eastern Turkey. The boycott campaign demands the right to education in the mother tongue. It was scheduled for this week, starting on Monday (20 September) with its last day on Friday (24 September). Tutak is a town in the province of Ağri in eastern Turkey.
35 Children still Detained in Istanbul, Courts Slow Down Procedures
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31 August 2010
Despite amendments of the Anti-Terror Law, 35 children detained in Istanbul prisons have not been released yet. Lawyer Zincir criticized: "The courts do not take action, they decide for lack of jurisdiction and leave the review of the detentions to children courts".
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Iranian Teenager Facing Execution
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28 August 2010
Juvenile offender Ebrahim Hamidi, now aged 18, has been sentenced to death for allegedly sexually assaulting a man two years ago, when he was 16.
Juvenile offender Ebrahim Hamidi, now aged 18, has been sentenced to death for allegedly sexually assaulting a man two years ago, when he was 16. He has retracted his “confession”, saying he made it under coercion. He is at risk of execution and currently without a lawyer.
Ebrahim Hamidi had been involved in a fight, in the suburbs of Tabriz, in East Azerbaijan Province. He and three friends were arrested afterwards, and charged with committing a sexual assault on one of the men they had been fighting. Hamidi confessed to the crime after three days in detention, during which he said he was tortured.
El niño soldado ante una corte militar
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11 August 2010
Khadr escuchó atentamente los argumentos de su caso. Imagen: AFPMAR KHADR TENIA 15 AñOS CUANDO FUE CAPTURADO Y LLEVADO A GUANTANAMO
El caso es visto como una prueba del compromiso de Obama por terminar con las injusticias llevadas a cabo en nombre de la “guerra contra el terrorismo”. Sin embargo, las desacreditadas cortes militares están en funciones.
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Turkey urged to stop unfair prosecution of children under anti-terror laws
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20 July 2010
Amnesty International has warned that draft legislative amendments scheduled to be discussed by the Turkish Parliament on Tuesday would not, on their own, prevent violations of the rights of children.
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Forgotten Casualties of the Recession
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08 July 2010
Child Poverty in the Age of Neoliberalism
Consistently ignored in reporting on the economic crisis is the dramatic toll it’s taking on America’s children. The prevalence of poverty has expanded dramatically in light of growing unemployment, accompanied by state attacks on social welfare spending that benefits the disadvantaged. Child poverty grew nationally to a total of 22 percent of all children in 2010, an all time high for the last two decades, and an increase in five percent over the last four years. Half of the poor are now classified as in “extreme poverty” – described as living in families earning below 50 percent of the poverty line. The percent of children who are food insecure also increased to 18 percent in 2010. This growth translates into an additional 750,000 children nationwide who are malnourished.Read 0 Comments... >>
