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It has been five years since children remain locked up in terrorist group YPG/PKK camps set up to house Daesh members. Meanwhile, U.N. experts urge their...

WHILE the government is looking at the logistics of returning some 100 women and children held in camps in Syria, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is calling on all nations to repatriate their citizens.

Human Rights Watch associate director Letta Tayler and advocacy director Jo Becker have welcomed statements by Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne that TT is open to offers of collaboration to repatriate the families of local men who went to fight for ISIS in Syria.

THIS YEAR marks exactly one century since the watershed document that has come to be the Convention on the Rights of the Child was written. The document was drafted by British social reformer Eglantyne Jebb in 1923, in the aftermath of World War I, then adopted by the League of Nations, the precursor to the

A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report said, of the almost 100 TT nationals being detained in dire conditions in camps in northeast Syria, 56 are children. The group is calling on the government to bring the children and their mothers back to TT as a matter of urgency. HRW counter-terrorism associate director Letta Tayler said