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INTERNET: Are we here presented with 224 pages of panic attacks?
Pinar Ciftci -

"I don't think a single military conflict can solve a problem."

THE MODERN TIMES INTERVIEW: Elisabeth Hoff, WHO's representative in Libya today, wondered why Norway got involved and dropped 700 bombs on Libya in 2011: "It makes no sense at all." For 30 years, Hoff has tried to save lives in war zones such as Afghanistan, Syria and Libya. How can a human endure so much suffering?
Truls Lie -

Digital overconsumption

TECHNOLOGY: The more I read in Screen Damage, the stronger the guilt for the damage I must have caused my children. Children between zero and six should not be exposed to screens at all, according to the book.
Hanne Ramsdal -

Sexualized violence – the war in Ukraine

RAPE: Russian soldiers today systematically use sexualized violence. And these abuses are not just due to 'bad discipline' or abuse of power. Commanders can also use sexualized violence as a kind of reward for their soldiers. Internationally, Russian officials categorically deny that soldiers have committed sexual crimes
Marta Havrysko -

They play with kites, with snow, with a green brush, with broken pieces of mirror or a piñata

PLAY: The exhibition by Francis Alÿs at Copenhagen Contemporary neither explains nor defines what play means. Rather, it is an archive of toys and forms lines of connection between people across the places we come from.
Hanne Ramsdal -

Concealment, secrecy, intimidation

ABUSE: Three men in their forties informed their former school, the Jesuit Canisius College in Berlin, about how two priests had sexually abused them decades ago. This led to countless disclosures – not only of the abuse itself, but of the church's consistent secrecy.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

The world's best Catholics?

CANADA: With the discovery of children's graves in Canada, the Canadians are arguably making the Irish rank as "the world's best Catholics". Children from First Nations were outright stolen, imprisoned in isolation, forced into a foreign culture, a foreign language, subjected to sexual abuse and general neglect.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

Every war is a war against children

DIPLOMA: The life stories of Ich lebe reflect some of the worst war scenes we know from the last century.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

Young adults from the most conflict-ridden areas in the world

REFUGEES: These are heartbreaking and shocking stories – despite the fact that they appear toned down and without excessive dramatization.
Maria Alnæs -

Elektra – the child who would be cleansed of pain

ESSAY: Sophocles' Elektra asks the question: what happens to a person who fails to formulate for himself who her revenge is directed at and why? Is it the need for revenge that drives us, the urge to punish someone who has ruined for us? And what about young, religious terrorists today who, out of love for the "ruler," perform cruel rituals and rites?
Karin Haugane -

Gaza is like mercury

GAZA: Can the proposed US solution of land redistribution and an expansion of the Gaza Strip end the conflict in the Middle East?
Nadia Othman -

Children on hunger

CRISIS: The situation in Gaza is desperate, especially for the children, where basic services are disintegrating at the same rate as the economy.
kevin@nytid.no -

When life has to move on

NORWEGIAN GAME FILM: With Venice-relevant Children, Dag Johan Haugerud paints a thought-provoking and empathetic portrait of Norwegian society, in one of the strongest Norwegian feature films of many years.
Aleksander Huser -

Molenbeek seen through children's eyes

childhood: Gods of Molenbeek is a very good example of how to introduce all kinds of thoughts about God, gods and eternity to a young audience.
velinraconte@googlemail.com -

Put the kids in the drawer

Norway has taken a serious step back in terms of children's rights, and we are moving dangerously towards joining a "race to the bottom". It's time to take responsibility.
karoline@press.no -
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The eyes closed for the future

The flow of the month for abo: The dream of a lost homeland is the only refugee left, as portrayed in this documentary. How can one then face the future?
Hilde Susan Jaegtnes -
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