Of course, not one link to this UN report was offered by any lamestream news outlet including faux alternative news sites in any of their online articles, but the T-Room has downloaded it in full which you can read below the the fold. [Read more…]
June 27, 2012
UK ready to take on Israel over fate of children clapped in irons
Report funded by Foreign Office details claims of routine abuse for Palestinian youths
by Terri Judd
The Foreign Office revealed last night that it would be challenging the Israelis over their treatment of Palestinian children after a report by a delegation of senior British lawyers revealed unconscionable practices, such as hooding and the use of leg irons.
In the first investigation of its kind, a team of nine senior legal figures examined how Palestinians as young as 12 were treated when arrested. Their shocking report Children in Military Custody details claims that youngsters are dragged from their beds in the middle of the night, have their wrists bound behind their backs, and are blindfolded and made to kneel or lie face down in military vehicles.
Children from the West Bank are held in conditions that could amount to torture, such as solitary confinement, with little or no access to their parents. They can be forced to stay awake before being verbally as well as physically abused and coerced into signing confessions they cannot read.
The team – led by Sir Stephen Sedley, a former Court of Appeal judge – heard that “every Palestinian child is treated like a potential terrorist”. In a damning conclusion, the report points out repeated breaches of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
“We were sitting in court and saw a section of a preliminary hearing when a very young looking child, a boy, was brought in wearing a brown uniform with leg irons on. We were shocked by that. This was a situation where we had been invited into the military courts for briefings from senior judges,” explained one of the report’s authors, human rights barrister Greg Davies. “To hold children routinely and for substantial periods in solitary confinement would, if it occurred, be capable of amounting to torture,” the report said. Last night the Foreign Office, which backed the report, said it would be taking up the claims with the Israeli authorities:
“The UK government has had long-standing concerns about the treatment of Palestinian children in Israeli detention, and as a result decided to fund this independent report. While recognising that some positive recent steps have been made by the Israeli authorities, we share many of the report’s concerns, and will continue to lobby for further improvements.”
Read the rest of this story by clicking – http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/uk-ready-to-take-on-israel-over-fate-of-children-clapped-in-irons-7888914.html
Read the full report “Children in Military Custody” – http://www.childreninmilitarycustody.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Children_in_Military_Custody_Full_Report.pdf
November 1, 2011
Fukushima: Personal Health Issue in Japan & Public Health Issue in America & Canada
Scientist Marco Kaltofen Presents Data Confirming Hot Particles
Washington, DC – October 31, 2011 – Today Scientist Marco Kaltofen of Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) presented his analysis of radioactive isotopic releases from the Fukushima accidents at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA). Mr. Kaltofen’s analysis confirms the detection of hot particles in the US and the extensive airborne and ground contamination in northern Japan due to the four nuclear power plant accidents at TEPCO’s Fukushima reactors. Fairewinds believes that this is a personal health issue in Japan and a public health issue in the United States and Canada – [Read more…]
October 31, 2011
The Lessons Of Fukushima-Interview Of Aileen Mioko Smith
Aileen Mioko Smith leads Green Action “founded in 1991, Green Action is a Japanese citizens organization (NGO) campaigning to stop Japan’s plutonium program.” Fukushima Green Action – Japan
October 26, 2011
Corbett's Fukushima Update
September 21, 2011
FUKUSHIMA UPDATE – NUKE REACTORS EXPLAINED
September 5, 2011
"Blind" – A Disturbing Short Film Set in Near-Future Tokyo h/t EX-SKF
Or at their site: http://www.blind-film.net/
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August 16, 2011
Japan using Fukushima people as human Guinnea Pigs
h/t YouTube Channel MsMilkytheclown
Radioactive Sulphur from Fukushima I Nuke Plant Reached California
Asahi: “Horrifying” that Fukushima meltdown equivalent to almost 30 times the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in WWII
http://enenews.com/asahi-horrifying-fukushima-meltdown-equivalent-almost-30-t…
July 20, 2011
h/t Zerohedge: Jim Rogers says what's happening in Washington is a scam, a charade…just trying to get some publicity"
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