Realizing Conflict Zone Children's Rights
Invisible Light
Team Personal Stories
"Invisible Light began from my frustrations with UN and media and conflict management practices worldwide that I observed and participated in that were absent evidenced-based knowledge obtained through critical and empirical assessment and evaluation research, dreams to do something to change that, and my own observations and experiences with impunity in the face of injustice lived by conflict zones young people and/or disabled peoples. This Foundation seeks to shrink that bad and forge better visions and systems. It also seeks to improve communication internal to and about those systems, alongside mechanisms for retaining and enforcing them ... "
Yael Warshel, Founding Director
Conflict Zones Children and Disabled Peoples' Stories Establishing an Urgent and Ongoing Need for This Work
8 year old Palestinian girl
"Jews" are not Palestinian because "the Palestinian doesn’t kill people and the Jew kills people.. and expels them"
8 year old Jewish Israeli girl
A Palestinian [as a drawing] is a male adult clad in a ski mask, an image Jewish Israelis typically associate with a terrorist
5 year old Arab/Palestinian Israeli boy
"His clothes are Arab, [not Jewish Israeli]. His clothes are not like the police"
Arab/Palestinian Israeli child
We can all get together and make peace
AnoX
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Sahrawi Child
If i had a state i can go to school
Arab/Palestinian Israeli child
I have never seen someone who looks like me on TV
Palestinian Child
I learned about them through my uncle who is a prisoner
Arab/Palestinian Israeli child
We can all get together and make peace
Anonymous person with hidden disabilities
" Being mocked for your disability and locked inside a building by human resources "
Anonymous
"Disability accommodations? At best they throw more time at you. We can be more creative, more appropriate. We can do better"
Anonymous
Being told by the very person responsible for coordinating disability accommodations—who has wantonly chosen to revoke them despite repeatedly provided, documented proof of a permanent disability—“You’re the only one who sees it that way [that you are disabled].”
Anonymous
'We have to keep our environment healthy. We shouldn’t throw trash in the street. It's our [“Jews” and “Palestinians” alike] “ country” (“dowle- taina” in Arabic), so you should take care of it!”"
Anonymous
"Disability justice? At best they throw money at you to go away and recede into the darkness. Our existence is a problem so we are made invisible. Impunity is not uncommon”
Anonymous
"Being told you’re a 'hassle' by the person responsible for coordinating disability accommodations because you follow-up about accommodations never implemented—or revoked—and then threatened with, 'Other accommodations could go away too.' 'I’m just saying,'"