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Israel restricting safe access to education for children in the occupied West Bank

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Israel restricting safe access to education for children in the occupied West Bank

Education is a fundamental human right for everyone, but in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, access to safe and quality education for almost 835,000 school aged children has been undermined, severely threatening their futures. West Bank education restricted Movement restrictions, forced displacement, school demolitions, violence. and harassment by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and Jewish colonial settlers are commonplace. So for many children, accessing education is a daily challenge. This story explores some of these difficulties. Every morning, as the children go to school in the West Bank pic.twitter.com/DOFZ2OHNUr — Johann Spischak (@SDGMasterglass) July 9, 2026 84 schools in the…

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UK is raising one of the unhealthiest generations of children in decades

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UK is raising one of the unhealthiest generations of children in decades

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has updated its landmark State of Child Health report, which looks at the health of children across 12 indicators. Nearly a decade after its first publication, this latest analysis has found that children’s health in the UK across all areas is either in decline or has stalled completely. Ranging from infant mortality and mental health to obesity, immunisation, and asthma, the report concludes that widening inequalities, gaps in data and chronic underinvestment are putting the health of a generation at risk. The report found in England: Only 84% of children receive two…

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B’Tselem report exposes routine killings by “Israel” against Palestinian children

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B’Tselem report exposes routine killings by “Israel” against Palestinian children

A new B’Tselem report examines the Israeli occupation’s killing of Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank, with special emphasis on 2025. The report provides a stark overview of the brute force Israel uses to maim and kill Palestine’s youth. Titled — Unshielded Childhood: Palestinian children and teenagers killed by Israel in the West Bank — reveals the scale of the killings, and the circumstances in which children have been shot and killed by Israeli occupation forces (IOF). It also discusses the policies and practices enabling these violations to continue with total impunity. “Israel” attacks all aspects of Palestinian life Since the…

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White supremacists firebomb another Muslim family’s home with three young children inside

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White supremacists firebomb another Muslim family’s home with three young children inside

A home in Blackburn has been targeted by white supremacists with a firebomb, Islamophobia written all over the attack. Three young children, including a 7-month-old baby, were inside the home, but thankfully all were able to escape before suffering any fatal injuries. However, this is the latest in a growing number of Islamophobic attacks committed by white supremacists in recent months, encouraged by far-right pundits and politicians profiting from the hate and division that has left many Muslim families fearing for their safety. In fact, recent calls to withdraw the definition of Islamophobia suggest this is just the start of a…

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Israel was behind 25% of the world’s violations against children in 2025

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Israel was behind 25% of the world’s violations against children in 2025

Save the Children has responded to a new UN report by highlighting that Israel was responsible for at least one in four of the world’s violations against children in 2025. And it stressed that, because only a minority of violations receive verification: these figures are just the tip of the iceberg With this in mind, the charity called on the UK government to: end its complicity and suspend all arms sales to Israel, suspend the UK-Israel trade and partnership agreement, and hold all perpetrators of grave violations to account. The UN's latest Children and Armed Conflict report has found Israeli forces…

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Children of the 2026 World Cup — generational ties on full display

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Children of the 2026 World Cup — generational ties on full display

At the World Cup, it’s not just the matches that repeat themselves—names also recur across generations. Between fathers who played in the World Cup decades ago and their sons who now stand on the same stage, one of soccer’s most compelling human stories unfolds. In particular, the family legacy is passed down the generations. The 2026 edition features a series of stories bridging past and the present, where Mazinho crosses paths with his son Thiago Alcântara, and Zinedine Zidane with his son Luca. There’s also Mustafa Shubair, following directly in the footsteps of his father, Ahmed Shubair. World Cup football families…

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Children behind bars for life — the human cost of ‘British justice’

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Children behind bars for life — the human cost of ‘British justice’

The UK state traps vulnerable children in a brutal cycle of lifetime incarceration, and exposes a system that rejects the idea of rehabilitation entirely. This disgusting model our nation follows separates us from the rest of Western Europe, where sticking kids in cages for life is banned. At a London panel hosted by the campaign group Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA) on Friday 19 June 2026 saw mothers, lawyers and former child lifers tell their stories. And it ripped my heart out. JENGbA campaigns tirelessly to end child life sentences and their testimonies exposed a racist, ableist nightmare under…

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UN inquiry: Israel deliberately targeting Palestinian children in genocide, war crimes

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UN inquiry: Israel deliberately targeting Palestinian children in genocide, war crimes

Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent UN inquiry said in a new report released today. The report found that Israel has targeted Palestinian children in Gaza in two distinct ways: directly by shooting at their vital organs using precision weapons such as quadcopters and snipers; and through the use of high-impact weapons, causing widespread and systematic attacks on residential buildings, schools, and displacement camps crowded with children. It also found that killing continued even after the October…

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Expert says Belfast paramilitaries forced children into pogroms to clear drug debts

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Expert says Belfast paramilitaries forced children into pogroms to clear drug debts

Belfast — The Commissioner for Children and Young People in the north of Ireland has said loyalist paramilitaries pressured children to engage in violent racist pogroms, in return for writing off money owed to those same gangs. Chris Quinn was speaking to the Irish News. He said the money owed might be “drug debts” or “could be loans”. He gave examples of what he came across first hand when present at racist disorder in Glengormley. Quinn said: We have been informed by reliable people working with these young people, that some of those were brought there to clear debts. I heard an…

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Save the Children oppose Starmer’s plan to save the children

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Save the Children oppose Starmer’s plan to save the children

On 15 June, the government announced a social media ban for under-16s. Since then, many groups and experts have spoken out, including Save the Children: This announcement reflects legitimate concerns about children's safety online, but a ban of this scale would change how children access and experience the digital world. The UK Government must ensure that any decisions are informed by children themselves and by independent… https://t.co/HbwviVkGvt pic.twitter.com/m655lWUo2y — Save the Children UK (@savechildrenuk) June 15, 2026 Save the Children The above response reads: This announcement reflects legitimate concerns about children’s safety online, but a ban of this scale would change how…

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Genocidal terrorist Ben-Gvir suggests kidnapping Lebanese women and children

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Genocidal terrorist Ben-Gvir suggests kidnapping Lebanese women and children

Itamar Ben-Gvir, a genocidal terrorist and Israeli Minister of National Security, has suggested that Israel kidnap Lebanese women and children to “break Hezbollah’s morale”. That’s right, after he spent two years pleading with the world to help release the Israeli hostages and using it to justify carpet-bombing Gaza, Ben-Gvir now wants Israel to take even more hostages than it already has in its prisons. By his own standards, that gives Lebanon the right to flatten the whole of Israel. During a security cabinet meeting, where several officials backed escalating its illegal attacks in Lebanon, Ben-Gvir said: Let’s start thinking outside the…

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Ben-Gvir suggests arresting women and children to ‘hurt’ Hezbollah

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Ben-Gvir suggests arresting women and children to ‘hurt’ Hezbollah

Fascist Israeli security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has told a meeting of Netanyahu’s cabinet that the occupation regime needs to abduct more Lebanese women and children. He told his fellow monsters ministers that killing many Lebanese resistance fighters is good but that “arresting their women and children”… This is what hurts them most. Ben-Gvir/Israel’s actions met with impunity and silence As the International Committee of the Red Cross notes, collective punishment of civilians is unequivocally a war crime. The minister is used to getting away with committing and inciting war crimes. So far, the UK government has not condemned this one. Or even…

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WATCH: Lebanon school for disabled children destroyed

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WATCH: Lebanon school for disabled children destroyed

Israel’s contempt for the lives and wellbeing of children, and for international law, is on show daily. As well as attacking Lebanese hospitals, the invaders have blown up a school for disabled children in southern Lebanon. The destruction was not a stray shell or even a targeted airstrike. Instead, it was wanton destruction using planted explosives. Lebanon school ‘rigged with C4’ https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Lebanese-Disabled-School-hb.mp4 Hate for children A school for disabled children, while the occupation continues to maim and murder children in Lebanon and Gaza — and film sexual assaults of Israeli children. Zionism is terrorism. Featured image via Instagram By Skwawkbox Source link

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Social care crisis fears as migrant workers’ children face deportation

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Social care crisis fears as migrant workers’ children face deportation

The crisis facing social care could worsen as Labour sets out devastating plans to deport the children of migrant workers, who are filling vital staff shortages. Despite having valid, and extended, health and care worker visas to work in the UK, migrant families continue to be attacked by the government. As the Home Office “set[s] out plans for the biggest legal migration reforms in a generation”, to tackle “unprecedented levels of migration under the previous government”, children are being threatened with deportation. Inevitably, this will lead to a mass exodus of people invited to work in social care while Brits have…

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Nearly half of parents are struggling to afford food for their children more now than five years ago

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Nearly half of parents are struggling to afford food for their children more now than five years ago

New research warns that family hardship has deepened despite years of post-pandemic support measures, worsening child food hunger. The survey of 2,500 UK parents, which Opinium carried out for the Social Market Foundation, found that nearly half (44%) were struggling more today to afford food than five years ago. In addition, 1 in 5 (21%) parents reported their children regularly experiencing some form of food insecurity. This included being unable to access balanced meals, or relying heavily on cheap foods. The Social Market Foundation report comes at a time when the cost of living remains among the top issues for the…

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Online misogyny is normalising abuse for children as young as 13

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Online misogyny is normalising abuse for children as young as 13

Online abuse and harassment are “constant, corrosive and deeply embedded” for young people across the country. That’s according to a Barnardo’s-commissioned poll of 4,000 young people in the UK about their experiences of online misogyny. The results from thousands of 13 to 20-year-olds show how they experience misogyny online. Over a quarter (28%) of girls in Scotland said they’d been called degrading names online. And five in seven (72%) boys said they believed they are expected to “act tough and not show emotion”. Online misogyny is having real world effects The findings also highlight how online misogyny is having an impact…

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