Copyright 2013 Children's Rights Institute Wed, 22 May 2013 16:08:13 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Children's Rights Institute :: Writings http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org goldstein@childrensrightsinstitute.org (Children's Rights Institute) webmaster@childrensrightsinstitute.org en-us http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org/250/hamas-textbooks-to-teach-about-liberation-plans Wed, 22 May 2013 09:00:00 EST Hamas has begun preparing new school textbooks that teach children about "plans to liberate Palestine and the legitimacy and various forms of resistance [against Israel]." Jamal Abu Hashem, advisor to the Hamas-controlled education ministry, said new http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org/249/hamas-training-tens-of-thousands-of-child-soldiers Wed, 22 May 2013 09:00:00 EST Among the classic, repeated Hamas slogans is the one in which the group's fighters declare that that they "love death" more than their declared Israeli enemies "love life." The Iran-backed terror organization has gone to enormous lengths to brainwash http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org/248/muslim-preacher-kills-his-8-year-old-child-bride Wed, 22 May 2013 09:00:00 EST According to war correspondent Mustafa Kazemi, an 8-year-old girl was recently murdered by her husband, a Muslim mullah, on the day of their wedding. Kazemi's source, a medical doctor, said there was nothing that could be done to save her life. Kazemi http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org/246/conservative-afghan-lawmakers-block-legislation Mon, 20 May 2013 09:00:00 EST KABUL, Afghanistan — Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women's freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles and encourage disobedience. The fierce http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org/245/morocco-accused-of-teaching-children-terroristic Mon, 20 May 2013 09:00:00 EST Moroccan human rights activist Ahmed Assid unleashed a wellspring of criticism, massive waves of anger and a fatwa on his head for staying that Islam has become totally incompatible with today's world. During a three-day seminar at the 10th National http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org/244/uk-imams-promote-grooming-rings-muslim-leader Fri, 17 May 2013 09:00:00 EST By Hayley Dixon Dr Taj Hargey, imam of the Oxford Islamic Congregation, said race and religion were inextricably linked to the recent spate of grooming rings in which Muslim men have targeted under-age white girls. Earlier this week seven members of a http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org/243/rescued-boy-soldier-is-stoned-to-death Sun, 12 May 2013 09:00:00 EST By Oliver Poole A child soldier rescued from a rebel militia group in the Central African Republic by Unicef before being forcibly re-recruited has been stoned to death by a mob, it has emerged. The boy, aged 17, and a second child soldier who had since http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org/242/report-india-3000-child-soldiers Sun, 12 May 2013 09:00:00 EST By Atish Patel At least 3,000 children as young as six are being recruited by insurgent groups across India, according to a new report published by a human rights group. The New Delhi-based Asian Centre for Human Rights says the practice of using child http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org/240/horrifying-images-from-syria-show-how-even-young Tue, 7 May 2013 09:00:00 EST Graphic photographs have emerged of the victims of an massacre allegedly committed by gangs of Syrian militia loyal to President Bashar Assad. The images - pixelated because they are so horrific - show shot, stabbed and burned bodies piled in the streets http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org/239/our-children-love-martyrdom-hamas-photo-glorifies Tue, 7 May 2013 09:00:00 EST In an extensive expose published late last month, The Telegraph documented the extent to which Hamas is training Palestinian schoolboys to use assault-style weapons and battle Israel. The outlet documented how the Iran-backed terror group has introduced http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org/238/in-hamas-tv-show-gaza-children-sing-praises Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST By The Times Of Israel Hamas recently broadcast a children's television program in which kids who appeared to be no older than 10 extolled the virtue of suicide attacks and expressed their desire to blow themselves up in order to liberate Jerusalem and http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org/237/hamas-teaches-palestinian-schoolboys-how-to-fire Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST By The Daily Telegraph Palestinian schoolboys are learning how to fire Kalashnikovs, throw grenades and plant improvised explosive devices as part of a programme run by Hamas's education ministry. The scheme has been criticised by Palestinian human http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org/236/bancroft-global-development-us-group-al-qaeda Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST MOGADISHU, Somalia — On the front lines of Mogadishu's streets, Islamist militants battle African Union troops. Standing alongside the peacekeepers are members of an American-run team of advisers, former military men who play a little-known but key role http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org/235/al-qaeda-boy-commandos-children-as-young-as-five Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST They are barely bigger than the assault rifles they grasp clumsily in their hands. Yet these children are being trained to become the next generation of terrorists from the age of just five. Sitting in long lines as if on a school outing, they struggle http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org/234/pa-tv-airs-children-reciting-poem-that-calls-for Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST Over the span of two months, Palestinian Authority TV repeatedly broadcast the recitation by Palestinian children of a violent poem calling for war against Israel. Palestinian Media Watch spotted the videos, which call for "war… to destroy the Zionist's