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Artist makes perceptive collages that highlight the contrasts between many regions of the world.
Ugur Gallenkus, a digital artist based in Istanbul, makes sorrowful collages to highlight the contrast between various regions of the world. The artist wants to illustrate the full spectrum of problems impacting today’s children, such as poverty, starvation, and child trafficking, by contrasting the visuals of these many realities. What legacy are we leaving the children of the world is a question that we all eventually ask, especially as we realize what it means to be a parent.
Uur was even motivated to write a book titled Parallel Universes of Children after witnessing all of this unfairness. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children, which has been in effect since 1990, serves as the book’s foundation.
According to the artist, the goal of the 50 Sorrowful Collages is to communicate the fundamental rights that every child should have, regardless of their environment or location. Each collage depicts one of the U.N.-established rights for children and is supported by facts outlining the urgent situations that put kids in danger around the world.
Uur hopes that his book will cause adults to reassess their priorities and encourage them to put aside their egos and greed in order to improve the world for today’s kids. The author declares, “This book is dedicated to all children in the world, whether they are poor or affluent, living or dead, educated or ignorant, in developed or developing countries. A CALL TO ACTION is made in this book.
Priority of Career Over Education
This is Shaila, a sex worker who is 15 years old. She attempted to travel to her aunt’s house in Dhaka, Bangladesh, but she fled her house due to her stepmother’s mistreatment. “I somehow managed to secure a seat on a bus headed for Dhaka.
My bus was stranded for hours because of the heavy traffic. I had no idea what to do when it grew darker. It was 12 am when I got off the bus at midnight. I begged every female passenger for a place to stay for the night because I was so terrified. I was in tears and had no idea what to do.
Nobody took me seriously. My life would not have descended into hell if someone had provided me with shelter that day, even for only one night, she claimed. She was taken hostage by a bunch while traveling and ended up in a brothel.
Featured Image: GMB Akash
Children Come First, says Seesaw
On March 27, 2015, a Syrian youngster rests on a tank that has been destroyed in Kobane, Syria (also known as Ain al-Arab).
Yasin Akgül, editorial photo
Bathing in Peace, Bathing in War
After the Israeli airstrike, Salem Saoody, 30, bathes his daughter Layan (L) and his niece Shaymaa 5 (R) in the bathtub, the only remaining component of their destroyed home. 2015, Gaza.
Wissam Nassar took the editorial picture
Seeing You
On September 6, 2017, in Ukhiya, a Rohingya refugee girl stands next to just arrived refugees who had escaped from Myanmar to Bangladesh. Many Rohingya refugees under the age of 18 arrived at the temporary tents traumatized after witnessing family members being slaughtered and homes being set on fire. Children make up about 60% of the Rohingya refugees who have fled into Bangladesh.
Featured Image: K.M. Asad
Girl With A Pearl Earring Who Was Injured
Following bombardments on the Eastern Ghouta neighborhood on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, an injured Syrian girl is treated at a temporary hospital in Kafr Batna on February 21, 2018.
Ammar Suleiman took the editorial photo.
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Tin Soldier
On February 7, 2018, a line of recently freed child soldiers waits for their registration during the release ceremony in Yambio, South Sudan. In South Sudan’s war-torn Yambio region, more than 300 child soldiers, including 87 girls, have been released as part of a program to aid their reintegration into society, the UN said on February 7, 2018.
Featured Image: Stefanie Glinski
School-Bound
On March 25, 2015, a Syrian schoolgirl entered her building via a broken wall outside Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab. On January 26, Kurdish and partner forces expelled Islamic State (ISIS) fighters from Kobane.
Yasin Akgül, editorial photo
First and foremost, kids are kids – swing
On September 3, 2017, Muslims celebrated the third day of the Eid al-Adha celebration. A Syrian youngster was seen playing on a swing inside a demolished building in the rebel-held town of Douma, which is located on the eastern suburbs of Damascus.
Featured Image: Amer Almohibany
Receiving Play
Children at a brick industry in Bangladesh’s Fatullah, close to Dakka. They receive the equivalent of 0.9 USD for every thousand bricks they transport.
Featured Image: GMB Akash
Lunch Period
At their lunch break in the workplace where they work, two young workers enjoy their food. Bangladesh’s Dhaka.
Featured Image: GMB Akash
Excellent pals
Five-year-old Noha Abu Mesleh is pictured inside her home in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip.
Wissam Nassar took the editorial picture
Authentic Sleep
A parent and his child in the Mora, Far North Region, Cameroon district hospital’s intensive care unit. Malaria, diarrhoea, and hunger are the three illnesses that affect African children the most frequently. 20 February 2019.
Image used in editorial: Pierre-Yves Bernard/MSF
First and foremost, kids come first – skiing
The cruel price of perpetual war is paid by children. Last year, as ten members of the same family were making their way to school, they came upon an unexploded mortar bomb—a frequent sight in Afghanistan, where the Taliban and US-backed government forces are still at war.
The curious children picked up the object and took it to show to an aunt without recognizing what it was or the hazards it presented. Then it detonated. The remaining seven people suffered at least one limb loss, while three youngsters and an elderly relative perished.
Noorullah Shirzada is pictured in an editorial.
A Rohingya mother and child refugee
Exodus of a woman and child who were Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to Bangladesh. More than 720,000 Rohingya refugees, according to the UNHCR, have fled Myanmar in order to cross into Bangladesh.
Featured Image: K.M. Asad
Getting over the Red Sea
At the closest beach to the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, Shah Porir Dip Island Teknaf, Bangladesh, on September 14, 2017, a Rohingya refugee mother holds her son.
Editorial image by KM Asad
First and foremost, kids come first: balloons
On April 9, 2016, Syrian children play with balloons as they run past severely damaged buildings in the Jobar neighborhood on the eastern suburbs of Damascus.
Featured Image: Amer Almohibany
Not every hero wears a medal.
On September 11, 2016, after a reported airstrike on the rebel-held Salihin area of the northern city of Aleppo, Syrian men carrying babies make their way through the debris of demolished buildings.
Ameer Alhalbi took the editorial picture
A red lip and blue eyes
She’s Rosina. She is a sex worker in Bangladesh at the age of 14.
Featured Image: GMB Akash
Seizing the Moment
At 2014, Palestinian youngsters waited in the Dair Al Balah refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip to fill water bottles and jerrycans from public faucets.
Wissam Nassar took the editorial picture
Until all girls start attending school
Girls from Pakistan attend a school that has experienced two Taliban attacks. Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Nowshera, 2013.
Diego Ibarra Sanchez is pictured in an editorial.
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