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Minors at the services of the Islamic state
In 2017, children were victims of attacks on a frightening scale due to the total disregard of International norms that protect the weakest. As revealed in the Syrian observatory for human rights latest report, in the last days of combat (July 2017), IS suffered around 480 casualties, of which almost 300 were minors known as
What rights do the children of Islamic State have under international law
Alison Bisset, University of Reading The case of Shamima Begum, the British teenager who, aged 15, left her home in London and travelled to Syria to join Islamic State, is not a one off. It’s now reported that a number more women who left the UK to live in the Islamic State caliphate are now
Christchurch attacks provide a new ethics lesson for professional media
Two basic rules of media ethics apply to the coverage of terrorism: avoid giving unnecessary oxygen to the terrorist, and avoid unnecessarily violating standards of public decency.