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  1. Baby remains found in mass grave at ex-Irish orphanage
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Remains of children ranging from new-born to three-years-old discovered in the sewers of a former children's home run by the Roman Catholic Church.
  2. The Children of Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A poem
  3. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  4. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  5. Disaster and Mental Health
    The Palestinian Experience

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    The continuing Israeli military occupation of Gaza is the cause of deep and widespread trauma for Palestinian children and adults.
  6. The Gladys We Never Knew
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    According to the Vital Statistics Act document entitled ''RETURN OF DEATH OF AN INDIAN,'' Gladys Chapman was 12 years, 10 months, and 12 days old on April 29, 1931, when she died in Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops. Occupation of the deceased was listed as ''Schoolgirl.'' On her death certificate, Dr. M.G. Archibald reported ''acute dilation of heart'' as the cause of death, with tuberculosis as the secondary cause. The duration of death was “several days.”
  7. Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured or killed, or suffering injuries or danger themselves. The trauma goes on, long after the experience has ended and they are back in a place of safety. How much worse then for children in Gaza who witness and experience these events day after day, week after week with no end and with no place of safety.
  8. Hundreds of Scottish Orphanage Children Allegedly Buried in Mass Grave
    High infant mortality rate and allegations of abuse raise suspicions of Smyllum Park in Lanark, once run by Catholic nuns

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The Scottish child abuse inquiry is to investigate claims that the bodies of at least 400 children from an orphanage once run by Catholic nuns are buried in an unmarked mass grave.The Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark operated from 1864 to 1981.
  9. Israeli army raids on Bil'in village
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Israeli army forces are launching night-time military raids on Bil'in village in Palestine. Military raids launched by Israeli forces in Palestine in parallel to court case in Canada.
  10. Israeli human rights organization highlights deterioration of Palestinian health under occupation
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Reports by Physicians for Human Rights - Israel document the deterioration of Palestinian health in the West Bank and Gaza as the direct consequence of ongoing Israeli military occupation.
  11. Kidproof Canada (child safety) Inc.
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  12. Kids Help Phone
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  13. Post-traumatic stress and the children of Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    The situation in Gaza is devastating. We have to act to protect the children of Gaza.
  14. Public Health students examine the disease of Occupation, joined by founder of Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Graduate students from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health are calling for discussion on the ongoing occupation of Palestinian territories. The Public Health Social Justice Collective challenges medical and public health practices.
  15. Race Against Time
    Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    This book is a compilation of the 2005 Massey Lectures on the topic of the Millennium Development Goals, with a special focus on AIDS in Africa. Lewis' lectures are personal and passionate in their denunciation of the international community's response to the AIDS pandemic and poverty in Africa.
  16. Strip-Searching Children
    Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Checkpoints

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades.


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