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Category Archives: Young generation
Pitbull and Psy – the unlikely rock stars for refugee rights
Jenna Clarke (source 
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For all the Sattler/Jones/Sandilands scandals stemming from the wireless, Canberra’s 104.7FM presenter Mariam ‘Maz’ Hakim is restoring hope in the medium, literally. 104.7FM presenter Mariam ‘Maz’ Hakim. Photo: Jay Cronan The 28-year-old Afghan-born radio announcer is the ACT ambassador for World Refugee Week which kicked off with a breakfast on Tuesday, and for all the bile and bitterness expelled by radio hosts recently, she is … Continue reading
ADF Bullies Put Reform At Risk
Kathryn Spurling (source )
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The latest ADF misconduct shows that misogynist behaviour is endemic. The time for rhetoric is over – sexual predators cannot be allowed to sabotage the reforms underway, writes Kathryn Spurling It is hardly headline news that male Australian army personnel were involved in unacceptable behaviour and the denigration of women. It is not news that the Australian Army had known of the allegations for almost … Continue reading
Indefinite detention for mother of three judged a security risk
Daniel Flitton and Michael Gordon (source )
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The two boys gave away all their toys on Wednesday night. Other children in detention could play with them, they figured. They, along with their mother, Ranjini, and baby brother would soon be free. Refugee situation ‘parlous’ – Human Rights Commissioner Prof. Gillian Triggs speaks on the ‘grave dilemma’ with thousands of asylum seekers ‘banking up in Australia’ and the parlous situation created by the … Continue reading
Councillor urges rape of black Italian MP
Editorial (source )
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A COUNCILLOR belonging to Italy’s anti-immigrant Northern League party has called for the country’s first black minister to be raped, sparking an outcry and her expulsion from the party. “Won’t someone rape her, just to make her understand what victims of this terrible crime feel? For shame!” Dolores Valandro, a councillor in Padua in Northern Italy, wrote on Facebook on THursday alongside a photograph of … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Europe, Migration, Politics, Young generation
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Women in PNG: blue ribbon for abuse, white for violence
Ume Wainetti (source )
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Women in PNG are raped, beaten and murdered by partners, fathers and brothers. Ume Wainetti, national co-ordinator of the PNG Family and Sexual Violence Action Committee, has had enough. Family and s-xual violence is a crisis facing the women and children of Papua New Guinea. Recent data shows that 50% of PNG’s women have been r-ped in their own homes and 68% of women have … Continue reading
Posted in Australasia, Domestic Violence, Health, Humanity, Oppression, Society, Young generation
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These kids deserve a childhood
Gabrielle Brophy (source )
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I have just returned from Cambodia, a country of gentle and sincere people spread across a beautiful landscape. But behind the beauty, Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia, with one third of the population living on less than $2 per day. Rag picking children colouring with peer educator Devi at the World Vision Cambodia night outreach program. Photo credit: Ben Knop … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Australasia, Child labor, General, Global issues, Human rights, Humanity, Opinion, Poverty, Society, Young generation
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A queen’s message to girls: More than tiaras and cupcakes
Editorial (source )
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Editor’s note: Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah is queen of Jordan and has been an advocate for children’s education for years in her country, across the region and around the world, working with such groups as UNICEF. This open letter to the girls of the world is part of the “Girl Rising” project. CNN Films’ “Girl Rising” documents extraordinary girls and the power of … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Educational, Global issues, Humanity, Leadership, Letters, Middle East, Society, Young generation
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Our Children Are Over Diagnosed
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Win a double pass to the Wheeler Centre’s Intelligence Squared debate: Our Children Are Over Diagnosed Today’s classrooms are full of kids diagnosed with labels that didn’t exist (or were exceedingly rare) when their parents were young. When did eccentricity, naughtiness and other behaviours become medicalised – as autism, ADHD, and the like – rather than part of the normal variation of human behaviour? Our … Continue reading
Posted in Australasia, Educational, Events, General, Global issues, Health, Young generation
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Porn or moral panic? Modern art’s quandary
Sonia Harford (source )
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Artistic freedom and the threat of censorship are again dominating debate in the art world this week after police raided a St Kilda art gallery, seizing part of an installation. As artist Paul Yore waits to hear if he’ll be charged under child pornography laws, civil liberties experts warn that whenever police consider criminal charges against an artist, the consequences are damaging. An earlier exhibit … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Culture, Australasia, Child abuse, Law & Order, Morals, Society, Young generation
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