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Trinidad and Tobago: Shame

Thursday, May 29th, 2008 @ 13:26 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

Countries:: Trinidad & Tobago
Topics:: Children, Cyber-Activism, Human Rights, Law
Languages:: English

As an eight-year-old girl is found dead in a canefield in Trinidad, Coffeewallah says: “They're killing the children…casually, as though they are no more than sand through our fingers”, while Now is Wow Too quotes the anonymous subject of one of her photographs: “We have failed our children. What's going on in this place?”

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