Rescued Children

Yemen: HRW Demands Rebels Free All Captive Child Soldiers

Child soldiers with Houthi fighters hold weapons during a demonstration in Sanaa on March 13, 2015. © 2015 Reuters

The parties to the conflict in Yemen should release captured children and make a commitment to not re-enlist child soldiers, Human Rights Watch said today. Parties on all sides of the conflict have used child soldiers, who are an estimated one-third of the fighters in Yemen. [continue reading].

(Graphic 18+) Iraq: Child Solider Escaped ISIL Tells His Story

Yazidi boys, suffering from several infections from mosquito bites while held by ISIL, wait with their mother inside a bus outside the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk after having been freed by the extremists. Bram Janssen/AP Photo

In a bustling office in the suburbs of the Kurdish city of Dohuk, eleven-year-old Raed quietly begins to recount his ordeal at the hands of ISIL. It does not take long for his eyes to well up. Raed is one of the few children who have escaped from ISIS camps. Thankfully he was [continue reading].

Greece: Canadian Volunteers On Front Lines Of Refugee Crisis

A volunteer helps a Syrian woman that collapsed while her husband cries as they arrive aboard a dinghy after crossing from Turkey, on the island of Lesbos, Greece, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. (Petros Giannakouris/AP).

Several infants crying, families arriving in over-crowded inflatable boats cold, exhausted and wet. These are some of the sights and sounds volunteers on Lesvos island say they can’t erase from their memory. “Some days you can sort of block it out because you know that you [continue reading].

Photos: Unassuming Man Saved Children From Nazis

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The London stockbroker Nicholas Winton, who at age 29 and of his own initiation, went to Prague and made a list of children he would later save from the Holocaust of the second world war – an operation later called Czech Kindertransport. Sir Nicholas Winton was [continue reading].

Documentary: Sir Winton – Saved Children From Nazis

Undated family handout picture of Nicholas Winton with one of the children he rescued: Nicholas Winton who saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children during the Second World War was today receiving a letter of thanks from the Prime Minister. Mr Winton saved 669 Czechoslovakian boys and girls destined for Nazi concentration camps by smuggling them into safe homes in Britain.

Documentary telling the extraordinary story of how Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from the clutches of the Nazis, bringing them by train to Britain. London stockbroker saved hundreds of children from the Nazis. Sir Nicholas Winton organised the transport of 669 children to [continue reading].

Africa: Child Soldiers Released by Armed Groups Learn To Play Again

Kenya Children learn to be children again

Children Learn to Be Children Again. After Release by Armed Groups. In the transit center for children formerly associated with armed groups, in Bambari, Central African Republic, Jonathan* a 16-year-old boy, is sitting on the floor and going through a big bag full of [continue reading].

Nigeria: Army Rescues 101 Children, 67 Women From Boko Haram

The Nigerian Army has announced its capture of one of the commanders of the Boko Haram sect. The Army said this was part of the successes of an operation which also saw to the rescue of about 178 captives of the sect in Bama area of Borno State. A statement made available to the [continue reading].