Flashpoints speaks with Nora Barrows-Friedman from the Occupied West Bank on media censorship by the United States and the current situation on the ground for Palestinians; Also, the humanitarian crisis in Syria grows as more Iraqis flee from U.S. invasion, our special correspondent Dahr Jamail reports from Damascus; The Bush administration’s secret immigration proposal was leaked last week, we talk about indentured servitude with an activist working on policy issues; Also, calls to halt ICE raids; we hear sounds from last weekend’s L.A. protest; and the Knight Report.
This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio on April 10, 2007.
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Nora peaks with former Palestinian child prisoners and documents systematic and wide spread torture being used against children in Israeli prisons and detention facilities.
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UNICEF Radio correspondent Blue Chevigny talks with Julie and Yafa, two teenage girls in Gaza, who relate their fears and hopes for the future.
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A Palestinian student from N.C. State University is charging three Guilford College football players with assault and ethnic intimidation after he says he was attacked in a weekend brawl that left him injured. WUNC reporter Lorne Matalon reports to Frank Stasio from Guilford’s campus on how this incident has affected the mood of students and staff at North Carolina’s only Quaker university.
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Two young people, Shir in Israel and Christine in Lebanon, discuss their feelings with UNICEF and ideas in the aftermath of the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
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UNICEF’s Special Representative in the occupied Palestinian territory, Dan Rohrman, talks about the rising number of child deaths in the region.
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The launch of another peace process in the Middle East - the so-called road map - has been accompanied by a rise in violence and killings. Peace still seems a long way away, but whether or not the road map succeeds, the pyschological effects of growing up exposed to war and trauma will endure.
In Israel and Palestine the majority of the population are under fifteen and so have never known peace. It’s not surprising then that many have symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorders. They may suffer from severe depression and feelings of hopelessness, or intense and disturbing flash-backs. Children can recover from the trauma, but many researchers say that the size and scale of the problem means the international community must now step in.
Panos Vostanis is a child psychiatrist from the University of Leicester in England. He visited the Gaza Strip where over a third of the children now have mental health problems. Helene Sharp interviewed him about his research there.
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