Dec 21, 2020The Death of Innocents: Remembering the Children Killed by Police ShootingsBy: James Dold ‘Ouch daddy. Ouch, it hurts,’ were the last words Christopher Prescott heard his six-year-old son Kameron say as he died from gunshot wounds after officers fired 20 rounds into his mobile home to kill an unarmed woman wanted on credit card fraud charges, just four days before…Human Rights5 min readHuman Rights5 min read
Dec 7, 2020Betraying Our ChildrenHow We Abandoned the Human Rights of Our Most Vulnerable Citizens By: James Dold As the 1994 crime bill was being signed into law two prominent academics began issuing a stark new warning to America about the coming wave of juvenile ‘Super-Predators’ who were more violent and less remorseful than…Human Rights4 min readHuman Rights4 min read
Nov 30, 2020EXPLOITATION MASQUERADING AS EDUCATION- THE TRAGIC TRUTH OF CUTIESBy: Suzanne S. La Pierre In a 2018 Vanity Fair article, Brooke Shields reflected on her decades-earlier role as the 12-year old daughter of a prostitute in a New Orleans brothel performed when the actress was just 11 years old. While proud of her role in the 1978 film Pretty…Children3 min readChildren3 min read
Nov 23, 2020Kids Don’t Think Like Adults & We Shouldn’t Treat Them Like Adults EitherBy: James Dold “We all do stupid things at 17,” Donald Trump, Jr. said, referring to the actions of a 17-year-old child in Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the summer who is now facing the prospect of life in prison. Mr. Trump is absolutely right — many teenagers do stupid things sometimes…Children4 min readChildren4 min read
Nov 20, 2019A Reason to Mourn on Children’s Rights DayBy: James Dold Today the world celebrates ‘Children’s Rights Day’ in recognition of the adoption of the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959 and the subsequent adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1989. Here in the United States, however, we…Criminal Justice Reform5 min readCriminal Justice Reform5 min read
Dec 29, 2018Reducing Bullying & Violence in Schools Through Student EmpowermentBy David Stewart, M.A. The propensity for violence and bullying in schools is an unfortunate reality in our children’s day to day lives. As a teacher at Centennial High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, I work every day with the victims and perpetrators, alike. I have counseled students struggling with…Mental Health4 min readMental Health4 min read
Nov 20, 2018Failing Our KidsA Resolution on Children’s Rights Day Today is Children’s Rights Day. You wouldn’t know it though if you looked at all the human rights abuses that are committed against children every day. In the United States, Child Protective Services estimates that 63,000 children are sexually abused each year. Roughly 1…Children Rights5 min readChildren Rights5 min read
Nov 3, 2018The Suffering of Our Children:A Human Rights View on the Opioid Epidemic Strangling Our Nation Ten years ago, my cousin and best friend, Justin, died from an opioid overdose. Before his wife found him cold and unresponsive in the early morning of that fateful August day, he had taken several prescription opioids (the toxicology…Opioids5 min readOpioids5 min read
