K.S. Mohammed's secret German prison -- WHAT ABOUT HIS KIDS?
A British organization charges that German territory and airspace may have been used for the transportation, detention, and interrogation of U.S. "enemy combatant" inmates. On the guest list of those...
View ArticleNew Bill O'Reilly Book?
Read in this week's Parade Magazine (from my local Sunday newspaper) that Bill has another book out. Okay, no surprise there. This is another "Bill teaches America's kids the truth." Okay, now I'm...
View ArticleAnti Gay Mass Resistance Shows its True Colors
Hat tip to Pam's House Blend for this.The anti-gay group, MassResistance, is clearly off its rails. It hasn't been updating its web site for awhile, and one of the last posts they made involved a...
View ArticleThe Rights of Women and Children, Worldwide: The Candidates Differ
[You can talk] to women -- from the Philippines to Latin America to the Middle East -- who can vote, own property, or go to school, because Hillary Clinton helped start a global women's movement for...
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Paddling pregnant teens and other conservative values
HRW and the ACLU recently released a rather informative report on the practice of corporal punishment of children in US public schools. Among other things, the report found that blacks were more likely...
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Path to 3-Strikes: Abusive State Foster Care, Deadly Streets, Broken Public...
Schawn Cruze and his family collaborated on this story, 10th in a series, as part of Justice Works! 3-Strikes reform campaign.When Schawn Cruze was 13 and his brother Jason 11, their mother Katherine...
View ArticleStimulate This! National Child Care Now (w/poll)
A problem that greatly contributes to the struggle many young families are feeling right now is child care. Indeed, many families struggle to afford the care. Care that is itself, at times, of a...
View ArticleInvestigate U.S. kidnapping and detention of noncombatant children
News accounts from 2002, 2003, and 2004 indicate that the U.S. had adopted a new strategy for its "war on terror": kidnapping and detaining noncombatant children in intelligence and combat operations...
View ArticleTennessee Bill To Ban Adoption by Unwed Couples
I don't have time for a clever intro on this, so let's get to the point.In the Tennessee state legislature, Rep. John J. DeBerry Jr., D-Memphis, and Sen. Paul Stanley, R-Memphis, introduced the bills...
View ArticleStop Beating Children in Schools
By Alice Farmer, ACLU Human Rights ProgramWith state legislatures back in session, we're renewing the fight to take corporal punishment out of public schools. There's a bill pending in Ohio to do just...
View ArticleSlimey Old Men
If anyone had any doubt as to how damaging it is to have the ultimate arbiter of our societal rules, the US Supreme Court, made up almost exclusively of men, the case of a 13 year-old girl being...
View Articlemarried at 13: the story of Ruksana
This was originally posted on Our Delhi Struggle, a joint blog with my wife about life as Americans in New Delhi. You can see a picture of Ruksana by following that link. This particular entry was...
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Children's Rights: Protecting Foster Care in the U.S.
One problem with the crisis that is foster care in America is that the challenges are usually so horrific most Americans cannot bear to look at it - and thus typically do not respond.America's various...
View ArticleAge Segregation and Youth Human and Civil Rights
When I was a young teen I spent six hours a day, five days a week, forty weeks a year in age segregated classrooms where I was often uncomfortable, stressed out, and felt disrespected by many of my...
View ArticleExpanding Opportunity and Hope for Children in America
By Nahal Zamani, Advocacy Associate, ACLU Human Rights Program Friday, November 20, marks the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most comprehensive treaty on...
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One of My Heroes Should Run for N.Y. State Senate: Jeremiah Frei-Pearson
As founder of Orphans international Worldwide (OIWW), I care for kids around the world. A few years ago, when I met child advocate and civil rights attorney Jeremiah Frei-Pearson, I knew I had met a...
View ArticleWhat About the Children?
Originally published on December 14, 2009 at Yo Mama For ObamaChildren continue to be maligned. At best, they are ignored. The true measure of a functional, valuable society is the manner in which it...
View Article"Zero Tolerance" Creates More Problems Than It Solves
With children being arrested in schools for profanity, yelling at teachers, and hallway tussles, "zero tolerance" policies aren't working and are denying students "due process" before they are...
View ArticleDemocracy at Risk? Ask the kids!
Notes: (1) Cross-posted on the IDEA website (Institute for Democratic Education in America), and (2) This is a first attempt at a Daily Kos diary and I welcome help from the tagging experts on board....
View ArticleA System Designed to Produce Convictions, Not Justice
By Jennifer Turner, Human Rights Researcher, ACLU Human Rights ProgramOn Monday, pretrial hearings resumed in the case of Canadian Omar Khadr, captured at age 15 by U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Accused...
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