 | THE WEEK IN RIGHTS July 04, 2013 |  | |||||
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As told by Alice Farmer, children's rights researcher
I met Arif, a 16-year-old boy from Afghanistan, in a Pizza Hut near Jakarta, Indonesia. He held himself with confidence, dressed in a pressed, white t-shirt, but beneath the exterior I saw a boy who lived thousands of miles away from his family, who had risked his life repeatedly for safety and opportunity.
His story began when, at 15, he borrowed $7,000 from his oldest brother to hire smugglers to sneak him out of Afghanistan and into Indonesia. He ultimately planned to join his brother in Australia where he could claim asylum, go to school and build a new life.
Over pizza, Arif told me about his first attempt to reach Australia by boat. This part of his story would not go well, I knew. Inevitably, the stories I hear from so many of the boys I interview – my boys, as I think of them – involve harrowing events.
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 | In Saudi Arabia, 7 Arrested for Facebook Postings About Protests Sending people off to years in prison for peaceful Facebook posts sends a strong message that there’s no safe way to speak out in Saudi Arabia, even on online social networks.
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 | Rethinking Surveillance The New York Review of Books By Kenneth Roth The government claims that enhanced capacity to monitor our metadata has helped to foil terrorist plots. But officials have been hard-pressed to identify cases in which broad, unfocused electronic surveillance has made a decisive difference.
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