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NEW  REPORT: SAVE THE CHILDREN

Save the Children rings alarm bells in their new report on the deteriorating conditions in al-Hol prison camp. Security and safety is rapidly worsening, just four weeks ago a young foreign child was murdered and 4 other children were seriously harmed. Approximately 2 people are killed each week in the camp. 


Almost 40.000 children live in the camp, half of whom are under the age of 12. Save the Children are focusing on the hidden, but serious, consequences a life in fear has on a small child.


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NEW HEALTH REPORTS: BRING THE CHILDREN HOME 

While imprisoned in Syria, three of the danish children’s health have become dangerously worse. In a new report from the danish health authorities, you can read that the children are in grave danger of suffering lifelong repercussions from their current health state. They recommend that one of the children be committed to the hospital in Denmark as quickly as possible. We argue that children have a right not to die. Therefore, they need to be repatriated immediately, so they can receive the treatment, that they so desperately need. 


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Yusuf Zahab before he was forced to Syria. Link to source

YUSUF ZAHAB

A 17 year-old innocent Australian child captive has died in a prison near Hasakah in Syria. Yusuf Zahab, an Australian teenager, was one of an estimated 750 children detained in a prison in north-eastern Syria for adult former Islamic State (IS) fighters


What Yusuf was doing in a western-funded jail? and the mystery surrounding his fate raise uncomfortable questions about a group of children that governments in the UK and Australia would prefer to wish away


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“It’s like a Guantanamo in the desert but it’s worse because it is much bigger and full of children.”


Most of the British women abandoned by the Government in detention camps in North-East Syria have never spoken to a journalist. In this harrowing story they describe how they were trafficked, and the pain of seeing their children grow up in desert prisons. One of the women she met, Amira, was a child and “barely out of primary school when she was taken from Britain to Syria by her family”.


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