#protectchildren — Public Fediverse posts

#Boys living in #poverty across the world tell us of their lives, amusements and sometimes their hopes. Boys, Toys and the Big Blue Marble appraises #childhoods destroyed by #slavery , #criminality , #war, #SexualExploitation and human stupidity.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/boys__toys_and_the_big_blue_marble/

#ChildrensLives #ProtectChildren #BoysNeedProtectionToo #StolenChildhood #ChildrensRights #HumanRights #CanadianFilm #NFB #documentary #ChildLabor

#Hopscotch is universal. #Girls around the world trace squares on the ground, then hop through them, trying hard to reach the end. Girls share other interests too; they all like to talk about school, what they want to be when they grow up, who they will marry, how many children they will have, their hopes for a better life for themselves and their family.

But all too often, through poverty, perversion, spite, ignorance or superstition, adults shatter these dreams by denying girls the right to an education, entering them into forced labour, subjecting them to mutilation, sexual abuse and other injustices.

Soni, Kamlesh, Mou, Yui, Dalal, Esmeralda, Fatou, Adiaratou, Safi and Maude range in age from 8 to 14. Some are frail, some strong; all are beautiful. Whether they live in #India #Thailand #Yemen #Peru #BurkinaFaso or #Haiti , they all speak of having much of their #childhood stolen from them. Because they are girls. With subtitles.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/of_hopscotch_and_little_girls/

#BIPOC #ChildrenOfColor #StolenChildhood #ChildrensRights #HumanRights #Documentary #CanadianFilm #NFB #ProtectChildren #ChildAbuse #ChildExploitation #KidsDeserveMore

Utah Senate President Stuart Adams backed a law to reduce penalties for adults who rape 13-year-olds — while his own relative was being prosecuted for doing exactly that. This is corruption. This is rape culture. This is the GOP. #StuartAdams #GOP #ProtectChildren www.rawstory.com/utah-republi...

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