Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

The cost of misidentification in Gaza; same-sex (penguin) parents are too much for Singapore; and which country is putting 10-year-olds to work?  - these were among the most popular posts to Dispatches, our daily forum for breaking human rights news and commentary. You can find all our Dispatches here.

Dispatches: Explaining Four Dead Boys on a Gaza Beach

Bill Van Esveld
The Israel Defense Force has an answer to the shelling yesterday that killed four children near the Gaza City port...

Dispatches: Same-sex Penguins Threaten Singapore

Graeme Reid
And Tango Makes Three is a children’s book about two adult male penguins who hatch an egg and raise a youngster. It is based on the true story of two penguins, Roy and Silo, of New York’s Central Park Zoo. And, in the view of Singapore’s National Library Board, it’s dangerous enough to get pulled from the shelves...

Dispatches: Putting 10-Year-Olds to Work Doesn't Solve Poverty

Jo Becker
The Bolivian Congress passed a misguided bill last week that would allow children as young as 10 to work legally. If President Morales signs the bill into law, Bolivia will become the only country in the world with a legal employment age so low...

Dispatches: Revamping the Failing US Prison System

Natalie Kato
At a hearing this morning before members of the US House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee, Alabama State Senator Cam Ward described what he called the “failed corrections system” in his state...

Dispatches: Clipping a Sparrow's Wings in China

Sophie Richardson
Ye Haiyan, one of China’s most prominent sex worker-rights activists, won’t be attending the major international conference on AIDS in Melbourne, Australia next week...