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An autobiography, of which Ishmael Beah unwillingly becomes a child solider due to a civil war that has arisen in Sierra Leone. Before the attacks had happen, Ishmael and his elder brother Junior had gone from home to perform Rap in Mattru Jong with their friends. Not long after their arrival, news of the rebels had come to their attention having raided their home town and no sign of their families being unscarred from the warfare. Ishmael, and his group of friends sought out to travel to each village seeking out their family. However trouble comes across due to the majority of RUF rebel attacks were caused by children around their age, many villagers had no trust for these kids.
They committed murder and kidnapping
The Lost Boys of Sudan is a name they gave to a group of refugees who escaped Sudan because of the civil war that was occurring. In order to reach Kakuma in Kenya, they had walked more than a thousand miles. Their trip started in Sudan then they started walking to Ethiopia. However, they had to go back and head to refugee camps in Kenya instead. They had faced several challenges when they were walking.
“In 1991, war in Ethiopia sent the young refugees fleeing again and approximately a year later they began trickling into northern Kenya. Some 10,000 boys, between the ages of eight and 18, eventually made it to the Kakuma refugee camp—a sprawling, parched settlement of mud huts where they would live for the next eight years under the care of refugee relief organizations like the IRC.” (http://www.rescue.org/blog/lost-boys-sudan) The Lost Boys of Sudan were young refugees who had to flee their towns because of war. Salva, the main character in Linda Sue Park’s
In September 1963 four little girls from Birmingham, Alabama, were killed by a bomb that was planted by white supremacists at the 16th St. Baptist Church. Over 20 African Americans were injured. The children were as young as 7 or 8 years old. Even after such tragedy, children continued their efforts to end segregation by marching with Martin Luther King Jr.
The police say that members of the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb near the church. Four young girls, 11-year-old Denise McNair and 14-year-old Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, and Carole Robertson, were crushed by falling debris. Several others were injured in the tragedy. There had been many bombings around Birmingham, but this was the first
Who would've known that someone could do something so vulgar to innocent people. Joseph Kony was named by the Federal Communications Commision, (FCC) the number one criminal in Uganda. Kony is responsible for 33 counts of his criminal responsibilities including: crimes against humanity, enslavement, inflicting inhumane injury, and forced enlistment of children. He has now left the main presence of Uganda, and is now on the borders of South Sudan and the Central African Republic. (CAR)
One day Malala rode home from school after girls were banned from school, and “a masked gunman…shot me on the left side of my head. I woke up 10 days later.” After lots of recovery and time in the hospital, Malala moved to the UK with her family, and realized she “had a choice: [to] live a quiet life or…make the most of this new life I had been given. I determined to continue my fight until every girl could go to school.” Girls rights were taken away, so many people were too scared to take a stand because they did
Nadia Murad was kidnapped by the ISIS militant group along with other 5000 Yazidi women from the villages in Mosul. The horrifying incident happened in 2014 when Nazia was just 19 years old. She narrates how she was staying with her family in the village of Kocho in northern Iraq when the ISIS group covered the Yazidis. They killed 312 men in an hour and took young girls into slavery. She further says, "the terrorists asked captives to pray
Picture book review: Stolen girl August 2015 ‘Stolen girl’ written by Trina Saffioti and illustrated by Norma MacDonald, is a touching, emotionally stirring picture book about the tourment a young aboriginal girl experiences when she was taken away from her mother, by the Australian government. The story takes place in a children’s home and is told with the use of small bursts of detailed paragraphs and intense, colourful and melancholy illustrations. Written for 8-10 year olds, the purpose of the book represents the experiences of children who were a part of the stolen generation in the 1900s-1970s. In this time period it was government policy in Australia that each indigenous Australian child was to be removed from their families as the
According to “Nigerian leader promises Malala missing girls will be home ‘soon’” by Saudi Gazette mentions “ Boko Haram, inspired by the Taliban, say they are fighting to establish an Islamic state in religiously mixed Nigeria. The group, whose name means “Western education is sinful,” has killed thousands and abducted hundreds since launching an uprising in 2009. – Reuters” Boko Haram is being inspired by Taliban encouraging that education is sinful making their action even more dangerous because they are messing and abducting children expecting that the government is going to allow and change the policy for their rebellion. They are hurting children to make a point not noticing that they have not even lived and they are making the children go through things that will haunt them for the rest of their life. That’s not all, “Boko Haram, now considered the main security threat to Nigeria…” according to VOA News in Malala Pledges to Help Free Kidnapped Nigerian Girl, .They are scaring Nigeria , not making them feel safe in their own home as they are a security
The following will be discussed: how genocidal rape manifests, including prevalence rates, consequences of genocidal rape, socio-cultural, political, and economic factors that affect women’s vulnerability to genocidal rape and the interventions that might be effective in addressing the issue. How Genocidal Rape
he idea and message of the documentary ‘Girl Rising’ is very simple and yet very visionary. The aim of this documentary is to highlight the struggle of girls in the developing world by taking real life stories of nine different girls from different parts of the developing nations and reenacting their actual incidents to highlight the aspects of their plight. The aspects include sexual abuse, poverty, child labor, child marriage, bias education system and so on. These girls suffer everyday for education, voice, freedom and human rights in their own countries of India, Haiti, Cambodia, Nepal, Afghanistan, Peru, Ethiopia and Sierra Leone. Richard.
Human trafficking is one of the largest and most prevalent issues that affects all walks of life both domestically and internationally. Human trafficking is not only a horrendous crime but a major human rights violation, impacting public health. “Human trafficking is a form of modern day slavery” . Human trafficking is the taking of a person with the intent to exploit them through, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery/servitude, or the removal of organs.
These girls were a part of the worst kind of violence, they were murdered as an effect of men at
