Justice Without Frontiers, the coordinator of the Lebanese Coalition for the ICC, has launched a campaign, entitled, “Your Child Is My Child, Let’s Protect His Future Now,” dedicated to the Lebanese people, and particularly to the Lebanese children, who have been devastated, disfigured, burned, and killed by Israeli weapons.
Justice Without Frontiers invites and urges all national, regional and international NGOs, to participate and support this campaign and support Lebanon’s accession to the Rome statute for the ICC by signing a petition and forwarding it to others.
It seems that maimed children all over the world are being neglected.
ReplyDeleteSome do however manage to grow into middle-age.
Thalidomide: the battle for compensation goes on
The Sunday Times
Sunday, March 23, 2008
http://ktelontour.blogspot.com/2008/03/were-not-always-lighthearted.html
with yours truly’s comments.
Please make sure NOT to force prostheses upon children whose upper-limbs have been maimed.
For example, girls who are born without or with impaired limbs are forced to wear prostheses when they are still infants, while reliable research has proved that this is detrimental to their identity development and results in more harm than help. Often these children are amputated in order to fit into the prostheses
(Womens Issues:
Disabled Women and the Right to Health Care
By Theresia Degener (degener AT efh-bochum DOT de)
Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, School of Law
Professor of Law, Administration and Organization at University of Applied Sciences, Bochum, Germany
Presented at Hunter College, June 7th, 2000, New York
http://www.disabilityworld.org/Aug-Sept2000/Women/HealthCare.htm
Ivo Cerckel
ivocerckel AT siquijor DOT ws