Australia’s internet watchdog says social media firms are still "turning a blind eye” to online child sex abuse material on their platforms, singling out YouTube as having been unresponsive to its inquiries. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/06/tech/australia-regulator-youtube-child-abuse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #youtube #australia #socialmedia #children #childabuse #apple #google #alphabet #meta #snap #whatsapp

Funding cuts are driving an entire generation of children in Sudan to the brink of irreversible harm as support is scaled back and malnutrition cases persist across the country, the U.N. children's agency said。 https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/06/world/politics/funding-cuts-sudan-children-unicef/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #unhcr #unicef #sudan #un #hunger #famine #sudan #children

The International Furikake Association aims to launch an app in Indonesia by the end of the year to help manage the health of children there and improve their academic performance. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/05/japan/furikake-indonesia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #furikake #health #children #apps #manga #kumamoto #indonesia

Despite topping physical health rankings, Japan’s children face a worsening mental health crisis due to limited early education, inconsistent counseling support and poor awareness of their rights. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/01/japan/take-childrens-mental-health-seriously/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #children #health #mentalhealth #unicef

The education has highlighted issues with third-grade junior high school students answering description-type questions in a national achievement test. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/01/japan/japanese-description-tests/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #mext #children #education #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools

Since the age of 7, Japanese schoolboy Shun Sasaki has been offering free guided tours to foreign visitors at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, ensuring the horrors of nuclear war do not fade with the passage of time. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/31/japan/society/hiroshima-schoolboy-guide/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #hiroshima #schools #elementaryschools #children #atomicbombings #wwii #english #volunteers

At Nasser hospital’s child malnutrition ward, a handful of Gazan mothers watch over their babies who lie still and largely silent, mostly too exhausted by severe hunger to cry. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/31/world/society/gaza-malnutrition-children/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #hunger #israelhamaswar #palestinians #children #health #aid

"The #Nazi regime reduced the ghetto's boundaries & squeezed its residents, whose numbers dwindled daily, into increasingly smaller areas...

My mother somehow survived the starvation & the #war, but the Mintzer children who wasted away before her eyes remained with her always...

80 years after they were starved to death, my country, the #Jewish state, would decree... the #starvation & extermination of tens of thousands of #children like them... children in #Gaza"

#Israel#Palestine #News

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The Nazi regime reduced the ghetto's boundaries and squeezed its residents, whose numbers dwindled daily, into increasingly smaller areas. My mother and her parents found themselves sharing an apartment with a family named Mintzer, consisting of two parents and four children. Both parents and the eldest son were captured in aktions and sent to extermination. Another son, hungry and weak, fell ill and languished for many days until he breathed his last. My grandparents tried to revive the two orphaned children who remained, but they couldn't help: they had nothing to give. The entire Mintzer family was annihilated. Bella, the youngest daughter, was ten years old when she died.

My mother somehow survived the starvation and the war, but the Mintzer children who wasted away before her eyes remained with her always. They accompany me to this day. The survivors' guilt doesn't dissipate and the scar still burns. On my first visit to Lvov, I searched for that building in the ghetto and lit memorial candles for them. Who would have believed that eighty years after they were starved to death, my country, the Jewish state, would decree that I bear real guilt for the starvation and extermination of tens of thousands of children like them. The state that arose from the ruins of that destruction has brought a hundred thousand children in Gaza to the danger of death from starvation.
Text from article: The Nazi regime reduced the ghetto's boundaries and squeezed its residents, whose numbers dwindled daily, into increasingly smaller areas. My mother and her parents found themselves sharing an apartment with a family named Mintzer, consisting of two parents and four children. Both parents and the eldest son were captured in aktions and sent to extermination. Another son, hungry and weak, fell ill and languished for many days until he breathed his last. My grandparents tried to revive the two orphaned children who remained, but they couldn't help: they had nothing to give. The entire Mintzer family was annihilated. Bella, the youngest daughter, was ten years old when she died. My mother somehow survived the starvation and the war, but the Mintzer children who wasted away before her eyes remained with her always. They accompany me to this day. The survivors' guilt doesn't dissipate and the scar still burns. On my first visit to Lvov, I searched for that building in the ghetto and lit memorial candles for them. Who would have believed that eighty years after they were starved to death, my country, the Jewish state, would decree that I bear real guilt for the starvation and extermination of tens of thousands of children like them. The state that arose from the ruins of that destruction has brought a hundred thousand children in Gaza to the danger of death from starvation.

Australia said it will add YouTube to sites covered by its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the video-sharing site. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/30/asia-pacific/society/australia-youtube-teen-social-media-ban/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #australia #socialmedia #children #youtube

A worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding in Gaza and immediate action is needed to end fighting and allow unimpeded aid access, a global hunger monitor has warned. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/29/world/gaza-famine-60000-death/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israelhamaswar #hunger #children #palestinians #israel #aid

Japan had 17,013 children waiting to be accepted into "gakudō hoiku" after-school care facilities for elementary school students as of May 1, the Children and Families Agency said in a preliminary report on Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/29/japan/children-waiting-lists-down/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #children

China has announced that it will start handing out childcare subsidies across the nation, in its latest push to boost birth rates after a worrying drop in recent years. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/29/asia-pacific/politics/china-childcare-subsidy-birth-rate/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #children #parenthood #daycare #familyplanning

"Terry LaBan is a #Philadelphia-based #cartoonist who has #published #comicbook series, had internationally #syndicated strips and, at the end of 2024, published “Mendel the Mess-Up,” a #children’s #graphicnovel that tells the story of a boy who works to save his Eastern European village from the Cossacks.

“Mendel the Mess-Up,” distributed by Penguin Random House, is rooted in his grandfather’s experience, but not based on it.

LaBan is critically acclaimed and popular with #readers young and old, but sometimes, inspiration strikes him in the same way it strikes anyone else: simply."

https://www.jewishexponent.com/terry-laban-wyncote-author-tells-jewish-stories-for-an-international-audience/

"Terry LaBan is a #Philadelphia-based #cartoonist who has #published #comicbook series, had internationally #syndicated strips and, at the end of 2024, published “Mendel the Mess-Up,” a #children’s #graphicnovel that tells the story of a boy who works to save his Eastern European village from the Cossacks.

“Mendel the Mess-Up,” distributed by Penguin Random House, is rooted in his grandfather’s experience, but not based on it.

LaBan is critically acclaimed and popular with #readers young and old, but sometimes, inspiration strikes him in the same way it strikes anyone else: simply."

https://www.jewishexponent.com/terry-laban-wyncote-author-tells-jewish-stories-for-an-international-audience/

Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime.

Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats. Authorities argue harsh punishment is necessary, but experts say the crackdown won’t make schools safer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/social-media-arrests-school-threats-law-tennessee?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#SocialMedia#Children #Education#School#Crime #Police#Tennessee

‘Death has more dignity than this life’: Israel’s starvation campaign ravages #Gaza

‚The cries of hungry children echo through tent camps in Gaza City, with over 50 Palestinians in the enclave starving to death in the past five days alone….‘

https://www.972mag.com/gaza-city-mass-starvation-children/ @israel @palestine

#Israel#Palestine#Hunger #children#WarCrimes

‘Death has more dignity than this life’: Israel’s starvation campaign ravages #Gaza

‚The cries of hungry children echo through tent camps in Gaza City, with over 50 Palestinians in the enclave starving to death in the past five days alone….‘

https://www.972mag.com/gaza-city-mass-starvation-children/ @israel @palestine

#Israel#Palestine#Hunger #children#WarCrimes