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#Jordan rejects bid to reduce age of criminal responsibility to seven years old
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/jordan-rejects-bid-reduce-age-criminal-responsibility-seven-years

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The Jordanian parliament. (Photo: AFP) The Jordanian parliament. (Photo: AFP)

Some Jordanian MPs somehow decided that childhood ends at the age of seven, introducing a bill to lower the age of criminal responsibility for juveniles to almost the same age school attendance begins to be compulsory, as though intending for punishment to begin before education.

Mahmoud Sharaan

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#Culture_&_Society #Abdul-Karim_al-Daghmi #Amman #Arab_Organization_for_Human_Rights #Articles #Atef_Tarawneh #Jordanian_Society_for_Human_Rights #Ma’an

Together in oblivion: Forgotten Palestinians in Beirut

32 years after the infamous massacre, the Shatila camp for Palestinian refugees still stands, albeit more impoverished and overcrowded than before, and more isolated from the modern, glitzy Beirut that lies beyond its checkpoints. Omar Ghannoum is a member of the #Ma’an (Together) Youth Group, made up of 17 young people from the Shatila and Burj El-Barajneh refugee camps in south Beirut, Lebanon. They stand in for their community where society has repeatedly and consistently failed them. Omar speaks to Eamonn Sheehy on life today at the #Shatila_camp, which has recently received an influx of refugees from Syria.

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▻http://mondepasrond.net/2014/01/13/together-in-oblivion-forgotten-palestinians-in-beirut

#Palestine #réfugiés #camp_de_réfugiés #Beyrouth #Liban #Syrie #palestiniens