The teenage girls cannot remember how many men they have had to sleep with in the seven months since COVID-19 closed their schools, or how many of those men used protection….
A year ago, and more particularly in March 2019, a relief organization recorded a video of the Syrian girl, Abeer Al-Muhammad, in which she spoke about her displacement with her family….
“When I get home, I will call my aunt to arrange a picnic together, but I am afraid my green pants will not dry up. Spread it out under the sun, please mom.” These were the last words Shaimaa Sadu, 19 years old, said to her mother, before her charred corpse was sent home….
There’s a famous photograph from 1948. It shows a pregnant woman in the United States, face away from the camera, and four children huddled on the steps below….
Between 2014 and 2017 the armed group calling itself the Islamic State (IS) committed war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Yezidi community in Iraq. …
Ehsaan, a 16-year-old Pakistani, arrived in Athens in February with no place to stay. “I used to spend all night sitting on the bus while it drove around the city,” said Ehsaan, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, recalling his initial weeks in Greece. “When I called my family, I told them everything was fine, but in truth, I was too afraid to fall asleep at night.”
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