(generic photo of a child used a human shield) A 2-year-old girl found with fatal injuries in Belgium after a police chase on Thursday died from a gunshot wound to the face, according to the BBC. The girl was in a van carrying some 30 Kurdish migrants which had been pursued for an hour in southern Belgium. The chase, which began on the E42 motorway near the town of Namur, involved a scuffle, police... 

Thousands of Palestinian children were systematically injured, tortured and used as human shields by Israel, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child reported. Israel’s foreign minister denied the report’s accusations, calling it “recycled old stuff.” During the 10-year period examined by UN human rights experts, up to 7,000 children aged 9 to 17 were arrested, interrogated and... 

Robin, France, June 27, 2009 — Nord-éclair — The presence of Gypsies from Romania in the Roubaix area [north of France] has always brought its load of problems, but a new threshold was reached when a difficult arrest was made last Thursday: a young woman grabbed a baby by its foot and used it as a weapon to hit a policeman. Last Thursday, around 6.30 p.m., a police patrol stops a young man driving...