Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line by Deepa Anappara (2020) Jai is a nine-year-old boy living in a slum in India. His city is chaotic, as is his life. He goes to school with his best friends Pari and Faiz, and his older sister Runu, where he struggles to maintain an interest in his studies. […]
Child suicide. These two words are an abomination. These two words represent the greatest atrocity in our world. These two words resonate with the failure of a species. These two words are to be heard more and more across the planet. Children are biologically programmed to survive. Nature intended it that way. They learn fast […]
There can be few things as heart-breaking as a child who wishes to take their own life. In nature, the one fundamental that pervades our species is the desire to live. In the young, that need is especially strong. Children are biologically programmed to want to survive. They adapt to the most horrendous circumstances in […]
India is a diverse nation of some 1.3+ billion people. It suffers from endemic poverty with levels of social deprivation among the worst anywhere on the planet. Sadly, as elsewhere, those most victimised by social ills are children. The young of India are often to be found in a terrible state due to family, community […]
There can be few stories as shocking as the abduction of children. It happens daily across the planet. Authorities are not doing enough to prevent it. Until they do, our species will not have earned their place here as senior stewards of Earth. In India, there is serious social deprivation. There is crime. There is […]
There is an adage that states that, “The first casualty when war comes is truth.” If it’s a cliche then that is because it has merit. Lies often start wars and lies are used to justify them. But Rebel Voice believes that the greatest casualty of war is children. Adults can, for the most part, […]
Rebel Voice has voiced its anger many times regarding the way in which many children of our world are being abused, terrorised and their pain ignored. Whilst organisations such as Extinction Rebellion and Greenpeace are worthy in their aims, they may inadvertently distract from the single greatest injustice taking place today, the inhumane treatment of […]
Crimes against humanity can take many forms. Ethnic cleansing is one, sexual assaults as a policy is another. Starving people is a third as is the random slaughter of civilians. Israel is guilty of all of these and more. They are also guilty of depriving Palestinian children of their right to an education. Schools are […]
August 11 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, occupied Palestine Whilst continuing my work with ISM this year, I spent four weeks working at the Hebron/al-Khalil office of Defence for Children International focussing on the way that the occupation has compromised the access to education in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. It is… via […]
Recently I watched a 45-minute Spanish documentary “Born in Gaza” (“Nacido en Gaza”) about the impacts of war on children. Watching the documentary focused my attention to the fact that long after the tanks left, children still feel the stress and anxiety of war. No parent wants to imagine his or her child going through… via […]
Most observers of the human condition will have noted that if there is an opportunity to exploit, then there will always be those who will engage in exploitation. Whether it be politics, banks, drugs or, in this case, the sex industry, societies will throw up unscrupulous individuals and even organisations that will work tirelessly to […]
This is a truly shocking piece of film about the lives of street children in Nairobi. It’s difficult to understand how any society can allow its children to live this way. Rebel Voice wonders what it says about our species. Can we be described as civilised when we meekly accept that in some places children […]
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