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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In the following piece of verse, the author comments upon the need for our species to collectively grieve for all of the children in the world, especially those who die due to preventable causes, so that Death may be held at bay. The poem is both a lament and ode to hope. If the entire […]
This poem from our resident poet, A.D., reflects upon the babies, and children, who survive the death or loss of their mothers under terrible circumstances. Whether it was during An Gorta Mór (Great Famine) of Ireland, the bombing of European cities during World War 2, the genocide in the Balkans or the results of war in […]
The following short clips looks at the reality for many children today that sees them hunger, and often die, from a preventable lack of food. In some nations excess food is thrown into bins. In others, children search through bins for enough scraps to keep themselves alive. It’s a terrible crime. It’s a horrific sin […]
This short but haunting piece of video highlights the ways in which the children of the Earth are being failed by humanity. There are no words sufficient to describe the horrors that children face in an increasingly callous and selfish global society. Rebel Voice strongly recommends that everyone watch this clip, and then spare a […]
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