by Peace | Dec 10, 2025 | children, Pakistan
Governments must protect children from economic exploitation and from work that is dangerous or might harm their health, development, or education. Governments must set a minimum age for children to work and ensure that work conditions are safe and appropriate....
by Peace | Oct 25, 2024 | Child marriage, children, Pakistan
Pakistani children are vulnerable through many forms of physical, psychological and sexual violence and exploitation, including child trafficking and child labor that is a form of modern-day slavery. Pakistan ratified the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of...
by Peace | Oct 20, 2024 | children, Gaza, Israel, Vrede en oorlog
At Peace SOS, we are in contact with a family in Gaza who provided vegetables to local vulnerable people in Gaza before war broke out there. They have two small children and have been evacuated nine times, each time looking for a place where they might be safe. The...
by Peace | Feb 8, 2024 | children, Gaza, Palestine, Vrede en oorlog
In October last year, I wrote an opinion article entitled “Stop the violence in Gaza and Israel.” In it, I expressed how shocked I was by the horrific attacks on Israeli civilians by Hamas on 7 October and called for the Israeli hostages to be released. I...
by Peace | Oct 4, 2023 | children, human rights, Syrië
At Peace SOS we believe that everyone, including prisoners, should be treated with care and respect. Everyone’s life needs to be cherished. Someone from Syria sent Peace SOS a press release of the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the...
by Peace | Dec 3, 2021 | Afghanistan, children, Vrouwen
In 2004, after the Taliban era, I had the opportunity to go to Kabul, Afghanistan with an Afghan refugee, to visit her family. Many children and their mothers (widows) roamed the streets, without a roof over their heads. The boys tried to do small chores so that they...
