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The War on Children Is Escalating. Where Is Canada’s Leadership on Human Rights? Title: The war on children is escalating: Where is Canada’s leadership on human rights? Author: Save the Children Canada Publication: Save the Children Canada Click here for the article Summary: The article describes the alarming escalation of violence, rights violations, and humanitarian crises facing children worldwide, including in Gaza, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, and other conflict-affected contexts. It outlines Canada’s past and potential leadership roles in promoting human rights, humanitarian law, and child protection, but argues that Canada’s current foreign policy and aid commitments are falling short of what is needed. It calls on the Canadian government to increase humanitarian and development funding, champion accountability for grave violations against children, and show stronger global leadership in protecting children’s rights. Quotes: “Across the globe, children are bei...

This coming Monday, 25 May, is Memorial Day in the United States. It is observed to honor and mourn military personnel who died while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. Originally, the day commemorated soldiers who died in the Civil War, but over time it was expanded to honor all American military personnel who died in service. It is now a federal holiday observed nationwide.

Dr Jeutner invited me to meet his Faculty colleagues and students to tell my story of: The White Busses. A rescue mission by the Swedish Red Cross, early 1945

Author: The New Humanitarian staff  Publication: The New Humanitarian 

On 19 November 2025, the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution to honor the Olympic Truce, as proposed by the IOC President and the Milano Cortina Wintergames organizing committee. The objective was to build a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal. This Olympic Truce was to be enforced during the Olympics from 6 February through 15 March, 2026, the conclusion of the Paralympics.

An interesting and gripping analysis by Shahrzad Amoli of how the war in Iran is ignoring International Humanitarian Law and why should we be concerned.

Video shared by Sree Gururaja Editor's Note: Readers may recognize the setting where the children sing as the 'Green Bunker' mentioned in Horst Cerni's feature "Ruins (and a Bunker)" which we posted on 23 November 2024. Detlef Palm left a comment on Horst's feature including a link to this excellent music video.  We are reposting it now given the song's importance in this time of war .  

  For countless Ukrainian, Palestinian ad Syrian children, wars have brought long-term physical and psychological injuries. Those who have suffered serious physical harm or the loss of a parent now face a challenging path forward. This is the freely excerpted but paradigmatic and heart wrenching story of  Maryna Ponomariova, 6 , and   Daniil Avdieienko, 7, an Ukrainian girl and boy. As Maryna is learning to walk using a prosthesis, Daniil recently and using his small blue crutches, gestured toward two deep brown stains on the cement floor of the entryway to his apartment building in Kyiv, as reported by Megan Specia with photographs by Brendan Hoffman of the New York Times,  click here for the full article. The patch on the right, just inside the door, was his blood, he explained. Then he pointed at the other blood stain: “This is from my mother.” Daniil Avdieienko, 7, outside his apartment building near where he and his parents were wounded by Russian shelling in t...