Children

Gaza’s Beloved
The story of one bereaved family in Gaza captures the loss and resilience of Palestine in the face of ruthless colonization and genocide.

Iraq’s Child Brides
A proposed amendment to Iraq’s laws would allow Shiite communities to govern marriage according to religious jurisprudence and threatens to normalize child marriage in the country. This looming rejection of human rights is notably a by-product of Iraq's sectarian political system, which emerged after the U.S. invasion in 2003.

Bringing Color Back to Syria
Former CNN correspondent Arwa Damon writes about returning to Syria and working with the country’s traumatized children.

Gaza’s Children Face an Unseen Crisis
The mental health crisis among Gaza’s children was already acute before Oct. 7, with UNICEF estimating that at least 500,000 children needed psychosocial help. Now, after nine months of war, the scale of the trauma is unfathomable.