enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Military use of children in World War II - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_use_of_children...

    The lack of legal protection for children in times of war, which allows for their exploitation, can be linked to the lack of a universally recognised definition of a child during World War II. Prior to the creation of the United Nations during World War II, protection of child welfare was predominantly embodied in the laws of war, jus in bello ...

  3. Jehovah's Witnesses in Canada - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah's_Witnesses_in_Canada

    In 1940, one year following Canada's entry into World War II, the Jehovah's Witnesses denomination was banned under the War Measures Act. This ban continued until 1943. [3] During this period, some of their children were expelled from school; other children were placed in foster homes or juvenile detention and members were jailed. [4]

  4. Children's Overseas Reception Board - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Overseas...

    The CORB evacuated 2,664 British children from England, so that they would escape the imminent threat of German invasion and the risk of enemy bombing in World War II. This was during a critical period in British history, between July and September 1940, when the Battle of Britain was raging, and German invasion forces were being amassed across ...

  5. Human rights in Canada - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Canada

    The events leading up to World War II, and the genocidal practices of the Nazi government of Germany, had a major effect on the protection of human rights in Canada. Tommy Douglas, at that time a Member of Parliament from Saskatchewan, was in Europe in 1936 and witnessed the Nuremberg Rally of that year, which had a significant effect on him. [116]

  6. War children - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_children

    Estimates of the number of war children fathered by German soldiers during World War II are difficult to gauge. Mothers tended to hide such pregnancies for fear of revenge and reprisal by family members. Lower estimates range in the hundreds of thousands, while upper estimates are much increased, into the millions. [1] [2]

  7. SS City of Benares - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_City_of_Benares

    SS City of Benares was a British steam turbine ocean liner, built for Ellerman Lines by Barclay, Curle & Co of Glasgow in 1936. [1] During the Second World War, City of Benares was used as an evacuee ship to transport 90 children from Britain to Canada.

  8. AOL Mail

    mail.aol.com

    Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!

  9. History of Canada (1945–1960) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Canada_(1945...

    During World War II, Canada was a minor partner in the alliance between the United States and Britain, and the US had pledged to help defend Canada if necessary. Canada was one of the founding members of the United Nations in 1945, and also of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949, but was largely overshadowed in world affairs ...