From Iraq to Gaza, We Are Failing in Our Debt to the Child

"Whereas mankind owes to the child the best it has to give…"—United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Child, 1959 There were Iraqi children before Gaza, before Hind. Before Iran and the Minab School bombing. Iraqi children dying by the thousands, as many as 500,000 as a result of US-supported UN economic sanctions and wars in Iraq. Governments expressed “concern.” International scholars and…