Youth

By Rajan Menon | – (Tomdispatch.com ) – The plight of impoverished children anywhere should evoke sympathy, exemplifying as it does the suffering of the innocent and defenseless. Poverty among children in a wealthy country like the United States, however, should summon shame and outrage as well. Unlike poor countries (sometimes run by leaders more […]

Climate Crisis

Why Gen Z is at the Vanguard of the Climate Movement

Waging Nonviolence

From the rise of organizations like Zero Hour to Greta Thunberg’s Fridays For Future, the youth climate movement is only just getting started.

Climate Crisis

On the Verge of a New Kind of Culture: How Youth Changed the Climate Movement

Yes! Magazine

By Mike Males | – ( Yes! Magazine) – Frustrated with a lack of process on curbing climate change, young activists are taking matters into their own hands. “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children,” affirms the Oglala-Sioux version of a belief common to several indigenous cultures. […]

War

Is the ‘War on Terror’ actually a War on Education and the Young?

Tomdispatch

By Andrea Mazzarino | – (Tomdispatch.com) – One day in October 2001, shortly after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, I stood at the front of a private high school classroom. As a new social studies teacher, I had been tasked with describing violence against women in that country. I showed the students an article from the […]

Children

Epidemic: Firearms are the Second Leading Cause of Death for US Children and Teens

The Conversation

By Marc A Zimmerman, Patrick Carter and Rebecca Cunningham | – Injury is the leading cause of death for U.S. children and adolescents, accounting for over 60% of all deaths in this group. Many of these deaths occur during fun, everyday activities, like swimming in the backyard pool or during a family car ride. But […]

Featured

Super-Majority of Arab Youth in New Poll say Religion too Important in Public Life

Juan Cole

Fully 79%, almost 4 in 5, say that the Arab world desperately needs to reform its religious institutions

Children

Gaza: Study Shows Rapid Deterioration in Mental Health of Palestinian Children under Israeli Blockade

Middle East Monitor

The Commission “found a further 1,642 children sustained injuries from live ammunition, bullet fragments or shrapnel

Egypt

What do Lonely Hearts Columns tell us about Social Crises in the Arab World?

contributors

On one side, they had to project strict enough observance to compete with the radicals, while on the other they were careful not to offend

Children

Behold the Child: US is Complicit in Thousands of Minor Deaths in Yemen & other Killing Fields

Karen J. Greenberg

Children around the world are suffering, increasingly unsafe, and preyed upon in ever larger numbers