How children in West Bank are being killed by Israel ‘without accountability’
How children in West Bank are being killed by Israel ‘without accountability’
IDF has killed 235 children in territory since 7 October 2023 with no indictments in what activists say is ‘licence to kill’
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Treating children like cattle’: what happens when private equity takes over a UK care home? Homes with inadequate staff, management. “High levels of distress” among the children resulted in self-harm, children not safe, poor care All in pursuit of profits. Successive govts privatised care homes.
‘Treating children like cattle’: what happens when private equity takes over a UK care home?
Experts raise alarm as firms aiming to maximise assets and sell for profit become more involved in vital public services
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When Trump returned to office, in 2025, he closed the country’s borders to asylum seekers, including children, and cut funding for pro-bono representation. Now unaccompanied kids are having their cases fast-tracked through immigration courts. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/N8d3jT
How the Trump Administration Pushed Judges to Deport Children
The D.O.J. has fast-tracked immigration cases for unaccompanied minors and fired judges who appear not to comply.
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For the first time in 30 years, child deaths are now rising, in large part due to USAID cuts Lancet modelling shows USAID cuts will cause 14 million deaths including 4.5m children, by 2030. Independent CGDev research backs this up
The number of children receiving SNAP has dropped by more than 776,000 after Trump changes to the program: www.propublica.org/article/snap...
More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni today said her government would not take the initiative to introduce a social media ban on teens like those in the works in France, the U.K and other countries.
Meloni says Italian government won’t push for social media ban on kids
Prime minister says ban can be ’easily circumvented.’
politico.eu
NYT: Can you now say whether you will hold anyone in your administration accountable for the strike on a school that killed more than 100 children? TRUMP: No. It's such a strange question to be asked. It's a long time ago. Mistakes are made. I would ask Pete Hegseth that question.
Without treatment, syphilis in pregnancy can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, or lifelong disability. It's entirely preventable. Pfizer has an emergency system to get patients penicillin. But it's so confusing that in April, a baby was born untreated, emails show. www.statnews.com/2026/06/15/p...
Amid confusion over Pfizer's emergency penicillin program, newborn is diagnosed with preventable syphilis
Congenital syphilis should be preventable. An Arizona case shows how drug shortages and procedural hurdles are fueling a growing public health crisis.
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Surprised there is not more government reaction to the horrific killing of Preston Davey, while clearly the fault of the vilest individuals but also the worst list I have ever seen of state failures at every level. There is no sense yet even at a local level that systems will change to respond
Children are affected by every major story in the world, but their experiences are rarely the focus of our headlines... Friends, a little new venture: I’ve started a weekly newsletter to curate the best reporting on children’s issues from around the world. The whys below. seennheard.substack.com
Seen and Heard | Rosa Furneaux | Substack
Reporting on the systems, policies and cultural forces shaping childhood. Click to read Seen and Heard, by Rosa Furneaux, a Substack publication.
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Rosa is ridiculously talented and lovely to work with. Sign her up before it's too late.
Rosa Furneaux@rosafurneaux.bsky.social · 7mo agoA hard post to start the new year: due to organisational changes at their funder, I've been laid off from my role as senior investigative reporter at @source-material.org. It’s been a privilege to work with such a talented and dedicated team on award-winning exposés across the climate beat
A hard post to start the new year: due to organisational changes at their funder, I've been laid off from my role as senior investigative reporter at @source-material.org. It’s been a privilege to work with such a talented and dedicated team on award-winning exposés across the climate beat
A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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this is a direct consequence of the decisions made by the US to slash foreign health aid. BUT many European countries (inc UK) have also cut aid.
Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · 8mo ago"For the first time in 25 years, child mortality rates for preventable diseases are projected to increase, after having declined for 25 years." This is the legacy of aid cuts. ~AA time.com/7338791/chil...
Amy Middleman, Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) a liaison representative to ACIP is saying HER study was misinterpreted in earlier presentation. ---- its clear that many of the presenters today don't have expertise to understand the data they are looking at and presented.
Hepatitis B is so infectious that babies need to be vaccinated within one day of birth. Also, if you delay the birth dose, moms might not be able to get back to the clinic for it. The more you ask of parents, the harder you make it, the fewer kids get vaccinatd.
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 9mo agoIt's hard to predict what the new #ACIP will do, but it looks like it will recommend that the universal birth dose for #hepatitisB be jettisoned. Experts warn even a delay of 2 months before the first dose will lead to chronically infected kids & deaths. www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/c...
And beyond this — it is unethical on so many levels to run randomized placebo-controlled trials in infants. No child in a vaccine trial should be left unprotected and exposed to incurable disease when there is an effective therapeutic vaccine.
Edward Nirenberg@enirenberg.bsky.social · 9mo agoHere we have a display of unfalsifiable standards by the anti-vaccine lobby. They want to rule out chronic, late-onset effects from HBV vaccination, which basically means nothing bad can ever happen to vaccinees for decades or else it's the vaccine's fault.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
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Repurposing a century-old vaccine offers a rare win-win for global health.
How One Vaccine Could Help Fight Drug-Resistant Infections
A cheap and practical intervention, given at birth, could save lives in conflict zones and beyond.
foreignpolicy.com
This story stemmed from this question: what will be the human toll of Trump's climate rollbacks? Turns there is emissions modeling that can help provide an estimate. Using modeling from @rhg.com we estimated the additional death toll as high as 1.3 million www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most.
Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
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Delighted to be joining this year’s #WCSJ2025 in Pretoria, thanks to a generous grant from the wonderful @absw.bsky.social 💫 I’m really looking forward to connecting with other science journalists — if you’re heading to South Africa, please drop me a message!
ABSW@absw.bsky.social · 9mo ago✈️ Meet the six journalists attending #WCSJ2025 with the support of #ABSW 🔗zurl.co/fvqMR 🇺🇬 Uganda @DianaTaremwaK @DavisBuyondo @sharonmuzaki.bsky.social 🇬🇧 UK @DrYemisiBokinni @pauladepoju.bsky.social @rosafurneaux.bsky.social @wcsj2025.bsky.social South Africa, 1-5 Dec @wfsj25.bsky.social
Can't recommend today's SourceMaterial offering enough, by @marcusleroux.bsky.social. It's the story of the son of a lorry driver from Calabria who has often struggled to distance himself from the Italian mafia and is now poised to buy 11 North Sea gasfields www.source-material.org/mazzagatti-v...
North Sea Storm – SourceMaterial
Poised to take control of ‘the backbone of the UK’s energy production’, Franceso Mazzagatti is defending allegations bribery, forgery and fraud
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Wajã Xipai: I am the first Indigenous journalist to exclusively interview António Guterres. How many others will listen? #Cop30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I am the first Indigenous journalist to exclusively interview António Guterres. How many others will listen?
A young journalist reflects on the UN leader’s responses, and hopes his messages – about human violence and an increasingly hostile planet – resonated before Cop30
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'Amazon hides its water consumption' was one hypothetical headline the memo warned of always amusing when someone writes down the thing they don't want to happen nice work from @lukewbarratt.bsky.social @rosafurneaux.bsky.social @source-material.org www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
Leak reveals Amazon plan to keep water use of data centres secret
Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.
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Amazon is "engineering industry standards to downplay its water use and avert scrutiny, said Nathan Wangusi, a former water sustainability manager at the company." Important piece from @lukewbarratt.bsky.social & @rosafurneaux.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
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Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centres’ water use, a leaked internal document obtained by SourceMaterial reveals → www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
Leak reveals Amazon plan to keep water use of data centres secret
Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.
source-material.org
Incredibly proud of our team at @source-material.org, who have been shortlisted in this year's @pressgazette.co.uk British Journalism Awards! 💫
SourceMaterial@source-material.org · 10mo agoWe're very proud to be shortlisted in the British Journalism Awards alongside many other excellent journalists. Here's a quick 🧵 of the stories included in our submission:
🎉Historic Court win🎉 The greenwashing adverts of fossil fuel giant TotalEnergies have been ruled illegal, in a case taken by @amisdelaterre.org, @greenpeace.fr & @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social with our support. 1/4
This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization 1/
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 10mo agoThat TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.
Nestle stuck it out less than 2 years with the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, and never actually reported its dairy methane emissions. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact
The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from herds of cattle.
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