Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s reporting. Volunteers escort a 2-year-old American boy to be reunited with his mother, who awaited deportation in February. Christopher Lee for ProPublica Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood, a
Latest excavations reveal further human remains and artefacts as calls for accountability intensify Photo Credit: Tamil Guardian Excavation activities at the Chemmani mass grave site in Jaffna continued this week, with further human remains, burnt bones and artefacts uncovered during ongoing judicially supervised operations. According to officials at the site, four additional skeletal remains were identified during the latest phase of excavations, bringing the total number of
The new sentencing measure comes as President Nayib Bukele oversees a four-year-long state of emergency against crime. El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has led a hardline crackdown on crime since 2022 [File: Jose Cabezas/Reuters] El Salvador has published a new law that will allow authorities to penalise minors as young as 12 with life imprisonment for severe crimes, including homicide, terrorism or rape. On Tuesday, the Salvadoran government released the law, which is sl
Gaza’s youth are haunted by trauma amid uncertainty over ceasefire; over 80 percent suffer severe symptoms, psychologists warn. Gaza children's silent trauma: 80% of young people show signs of 'severe trauma' For many in Gaza, Israel’s genocidal war could never really end. Even if the fragile United States-brokered ceasefire were successful in halting deadly attacks on the besieged enclave, which it so far has not, loud booms would still echo in the minds of those Palestini