Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, a U.N. inquiry has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/23/world/israel-gaza-children-target-un-report/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #un #gaza #children #refugees #warcrimes #israel

The UK just banned social media for children under 16, effective Spring 2027. Nine in 10 parents backed it. Critics say requiring everyone to prove their age creates new privacy risks. https://indigoprivacy.com/subscribe #privacy #socialmedia #uk #children #indigoprivacy

The UK just banned social media for children under 16, effective Spring 2027. Nine in 10 parents backed it. Critics say requiring everyone to prove their age creates new privacy risks. https://indigoprivacy.com/subscribe #privacy #socialmedia #uk #children #indigoprivacy

"‘My daughter was not given a fair trial’: Mother of jailed Palestine Action activist says case was a ‘stitch-up’

Exclusive: The mother of Ellie Kamio, a 30-year-old Palestine Action activist tells Maira Butt that her daughter was not given a fair trial because the jury were not told she would be sentenced as a terrorist"
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Like many protesters, Kamio found it difficult to watch what was happening in the war-torn enclave, where authorities say more than 20,000 children have been killed since October 2023, and felt she had to do something. A UN investigation has since found Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians, although the state denies the claims.

“She was working in Forest with these young children whose concept of right and wrong is very simple,” her mother says. “It’s black and white. Then, she would go home and see young children losing families, being scared, not having a home and that’s what fired her up.

“Nelson Mandela was classed as a terrorist and now there’s a statue of him in parliament,” she added."
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#gaza #genocide #children #PalestineAction #palestine #uk #ukpol

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/ellie-kamio-palestine-action-sentence-terror-b2990265.html

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A Palestine Action activist sentenced to jail as a terrorist over a raid at an Israeli-linked defence factory was “stitched up”, her mother says. Leona “Ellie” Kamio was among four defendants jailed after causing £1.2 million of damage at Elbit Systems factory near Bristol in August 2024. But legal experts and campaigners have warned the judge’s decision to sentence on the basis the raid was an “act of terrorism” – without telling the jury – was “chilling”. “I think it’s quite clear that all the rules of democracy have gone completely out of the window,” Kamio’s mother Emma told The Independent. Arguing her daughter was not treated fairly because the jury did not know the defendants could be sentenced as terrorists, Ms Kamio warned the “slippery slope to authoritarianism was already here”.

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“They haven't had a fair trial,” Ms Kamio said. “The jury did not know what was ahead of them. The whole thing’s been a stitch-up.” Having previously been acquitted on charges of aggravated burglary in a trial in February this year, her 30-year-old daughter faced retrial with the new restrictions. Along with Samuel Corner, 23, Fatema Rajwani, 21, and Charlotte Head, 30, the group was found guilty of criminal damage. Corner was additionally convicted of grievous bodily harm without intent, after striking Sgt Kate Evans with a sledgehammer and fracturing her spine. Between them they have been sentenced to 26 years and 4 months in prison, with Kamio receiving a six years prison sentence. Hundreds gathered outside the court room to hear the sentencing, with Kamio shouting: “In order to hear the birds, the warplanes must be silent,” referencing Palestinian poet Marwan Makhoul.

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Two other defendants - Zoe Rogers, 22, and Jordan Devlin, 31 - were acquitted of the same charge by a jury at Woolwich Crown Court last month. Ms Kamio described her daughter as a “geek who had never been in trouble before”. As a teenage musician she was part of an up and coming band that signed to Island records, the same label that made Amy Winehouse and U2 famous, among many others. She later went on to work for Vice magazine before becoming a teacher at a private day school in Walthamstow, London. Described as a nature lover, her dream is to live on farm and tend to the land. Her school has since said she is always welcome to return to her job. “If you took at look at them, they are six geeks,” Ms Kamio, who was also arrested by riot police in connection with the crime and later released, said of the defendants. “You’ve got four young girls, three of them are autistic, they’re all university boffins who’ve never been in trouble in their life.”

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Ms Kamio says her daughter’s sentencing has already had a wider effect on the family’s lives, claiming she has since been turned down for a mortgage after lenders argued she could cause the company “reputational damage”. Kamio’s previous boss, former Vice editor-in-chief Zing Tseng, also took to social media to criticise the case. “She’s been sentenced as a terrorist even though she has been convicted of criminal damage,” Tseng said of her former employee. “To me, it is absolutely nuts and it hits home because I worked with her. “If you walk down east London on a night out, there are 10,000 Ellies having a girly drink with their friends and then on Monday they’re going to do their social media job. This could be literally any one of us. It massively opens the door for anyone taking direct action to be sentenced as a terrorist.”

UK plans to ban social media for under-16s by 2027, covering major platforms like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and X under new safety rules. 📵
The policy includes mandatory age verification, possible overnight curfews, and stricter limits on livestreaming and stranger contact features. 🔐

🔗 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/uk-to-ban-social-media-for-kids-under-16-may-impose-overnight-curfews/

#TechNews #Europe #EU #UK #SocialMedia #Privacy #OnlineSafety #AgeVerification #DigitalRights #CyberSecurity #Policy #Safety #Kids #Children #Internet #Governance

#Meta Lobbies #Congress For Protection From Child-Harm #Lawsuits

Meta has lobbied the U.S. Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as #Instagram , as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young users and their families, according to a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language reviewed by Reuters. If adopted by lawmakers and passed into law as part of the #KidsOnlineSafetyAct (#KOSA ) under consideration in the U.S. Senate, such a provision could undermine thousands of lawsuits against Meta and other online platforms over harms to #children.
#socialmedia #security #privacy #childharm

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/06/18/2342227/meta-lobbies-congress-for-protection-from-child-harm-lawsuits?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

📢 Israel was responsible for the highest number of verified grave violations against #children in the occupied Palestinian territories in 2025, according to a new #UN report, which recorded a sharp rise in abuses against children in conflict zones worldwide

#news #genocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity #ihl #law #UNres2803scam #ceasefirescam #USwarcrimes #EUwarcrimes #EU #US #UK #humanrights #palestine #gaza #westbank #UNICEF #OHCHR #geneva #genevaconvention #UNcharter

MEMO

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260618-israel-tops-un-list-of-grave-violations-against-children-in-2025/

NEW: More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program

Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.
https://www.propublica.org/article/snap-benefits-children-food-stamps?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #Food #SNAP #Children #Kids #Poverty #USPolitics

🤗💓💗🩷🩵🧡💛🌊🩱🤍💓💗🩷🧡💛🩵🌊🩱🤍💓💗🩷🧡💛🩵🌊🩱🤍💓💗🩷🧡💛🩵🌊🩱🤍💓💗🩷🧡💛🩵🌊🩱🤍💓💗🩷🧡💛🩵🌊🩱🤍💓💗🩷🧡💛🩵🌊🩱🤍💓💗🩷🤗*Discovering that with every child!*your heart grows bigger!*& stronger!*that there is no limit to how much!*or how many people you can love!*even though at times you feel as though you could burst!*you don't!*you just love even more!🤗💓💗🩷🧡💛🩵🌊🩱🤍💓💗🩷🧡💛🩵🌊🩱🤍💓💗🩷🧡💛🩵🌊🩱🤍💓💗🩷🧡💛🩵🌊🩱🤍🤗

~Yasmin Le Bon

#Quote #Children #Hearts #Fun #Whimsical #Fun

🤗💜💓💚💙💗🧡🩷🩵💜💓💚💙💗🧡🩷🩵💜💓💚💙💗🧡🩷🩵💜💓💚💙💗🧡🩷🩵🤗*Discovering that with every child!*your heart grows bigger!*& stronger!*that there is no limit to how much!*or how many people you can love!*even though at times you feel as though you could burst!*you don't!*you just love even more!🤗💜💓💚💙💗🧡🩷🩵💜💓💚💙💗🧡🩷🩵💜💓💚💙💗🧡🩷🩵💜💓💚💙💗🧡🩷🩵🤗

~Yasmin Le Bon

#Quote #Children #Hearts #Fun #Whimsical #Fun

*~*Discovering that with every child!*your heart grows bigger!*& stronger!*that there is no limit to how much!*or how many people you can love!*even though at times you feel as though you could burst!*you don't!*you just love even more!*~*

~Yasmin Le Bon

#Quote #Children #Hearts #Fun #Whimsical #Fun

🤗🤎🟤⚪🤍⚫🖤🔳🔲🤎🟤⚪🤍⚫🖤🔳🔲🤎🟤⚪🤍⚫🖤🔳🔲🤎🟤⚪🤍⚫🖤🔳🔲🤗*There is so much truth in children!*& so little self-consciousness!*It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing!*& finding themselves!*& also losing!*& finding those things they feel close to!🤗🤎🟤⚪🤍⚫🤎🟤🖤🔳🔲🤎🟤⚪🤍⚫🖤🔳🔲🤎🟤⚪🤍⚫🖤🔳🔲🤎🟤⚪🤍⚫🖤🔳🔲🤎🟤🤗

~Carson McCullers

#Quote #about #Children #Hearts #Whimsical #Fun

🤗❤️💮🌹🕊️🦉⚪🤍❤️🌹🎀🦉🤍⚪🕊️💮❤️💮🌹🕊️🦉⚪🤍🎀🤍❤️⚪💮🦉🌹🕊️🎀🤍❤️⚪💮🦉🌹🕊️🤗*There is so much truth in children!*& so little self-consciousness!*It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing!*& finding themselves!*& also losing!*& finding those things they feel close to!🤗🎀❤️💮🌹🕊️🦉⚪🤍🎀🤍❤️⚪💮🦉🌹🕊️🎀🤍❤️⚪💮🦉🌹🕊️🎀🤍❤️⚪💮🦉🌹🕊️🎀🤍❤️⚪💮🦉🌹🕊️🤗

~Carson McCullers

#Quote #about #Children #Hearts #Whimsical #Fun

*~*There is so much truth in children!*& so little self-consciousness!*It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing!*& finding themselves!*& also losing!*& finding those things they feel close to!*~*

~Carson McCullers

#Quote #about #Children #Hearts #Whimsical #Fun

From Gaige Davila: "Food is rotten in Dilley. ... I guess the only other way to put it is worm-filled, because it’s often filled with worms. It’s not child-appropriate. Remember, when you have #children who are as old as 16 months, 18 months, they have very specific food needs." https://www.texasobserver.org/dilley-family-detention-immigration-habeas-corpus-sb-4/

#ICE #immigration #HumanRights #fascism #Texas #law #politics #USpol #news

A day at the museum: How to follow kids’ leads to support curiosity across generations.
Museums and galleries are perfect environments that provide unique opportunities where children and adults can explore side by side.
https://theconversation.com/a-day-at-the-museum-how-to-follow-kids-leads-to-support-curiosity-across-generations-279190 #globalmuseum #museums #children

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Guided discussion between adults and children helps children make meaning from what they see and do every day. (Yunus Tug/Unsplash)

" #Russia has effectively outlawed the public expression of #childfree views. #Women now face heavy fines for discussing a wish not to have #children, or even for candid #socialMedia accounts of difficult #birth s or #postpartum #depression...

The Health Ministry, it added, has introduced mandatory questionnaires for #teenagers; a #girl who indicates she does not currently want children is referred to a psychologist for 'corrective' #counseling"

https://united24media.com/world/russia-revives-soviet-era-controls-to-police-womens-bodies-and-futures-19654

#womensRights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adCMNAVBGSQ

Age Verification is beyond Epstein 2.0.

"You are basically laying out your children on a silver platter in the name of protecting them."

"Once these OS-level age verification laws take hold, we're about 3 months from a real-time GPS-located database of verified children for creeps, politicians, and rich Ep-style people to use."