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Huang Tanghong, a young high schooler was beaten up by three bullies at his school in southeastern China's Fujian Province, who had routinely abused him in the past few years according to his relatives. Liu Lizhu, his mother, was not aware her 15-year-old son had been bullied at school until he ended up in hospital with a ruptured spleen. Huang's experience received much public attention after his angry cousin took to social media to call for justice, posting graphic images of Huang's spleen and stitches.

When you think about it, many countries have serious environmental issues just like i mentioned in my post earlier this week. Now when you truly think about it, saving the environment is much more than simply just saving the environment. By the environmental problems rising being solved, many people can go back to showering without worrying about lead poisoning, or even breathing air outside of their homes without the need of a mask so that their lungs don't become damaged. Simple parts of life are unavailable to so many people just because of the environment being neglected.

Brazil’s prisons are a human-rights disaster. Detainees—even those who have not been convicted of a crime—are held in overcrowded, violent, and disease-ridden cells. Overcrowding in the prisons of the northeastern state of Pernambuco is especially dire. The prisons hold more than three times as many inmates as their official capacity in conditions that are dangerous, unhealthy, and inhumane. During visits to Pernambuco’s prisons in 2015, a researcher from Human Rights Watch reported a cell without beds, in which 37 men slept just on sheets on the floor.

The report below is based on Human Rights Watch interviews with more than 120 people, including 19 children, ages 10 to 17. They speak about the horrible armed groups both government and non-governmental that have used schools as a place for a battleground. No matter where the fighting is, it ruins lives of innocent civilians that want nothing but to go on with their normal lives. Armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the past two decades has resulted in the deaths of an estimated five million people to violence, fighting, hunger, and disease.