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Orphanages AlterLinks Topic Index Baby remains found in mass grave at ex-Irish orphanage Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Remains of children ranging from new-born to three-years-old discovered in the sewers of a former children's home run by the Roman Catholic Church. Duplessis Orphans Wikipedia article Resource Type: Article The Duplessis Orphans (French: les Orphelins de Duplessis) were the victims of a scheme in which approximately 20,000 orphaned children were falsely certified as mentally ill by the government of the province of Quebec, Canada, and confined to psychiatric institutions. Endemic rape and abuse of Irish children in Catholic care, inquiry finds Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Beatings and humiliation by nuns and priests were common at institutions that held up to 30,000 children, Ryan report states. Galway historian reveals truth behind 800 orphans in mass grave Resource Type: Unclassified Published: 2014 There is a growing international scandal around the history of The Home, a grim 1840's workhouse in Tuam in Galway built on seven acres that was taken over in 1925 by the Bon Secours sisters, who turned it into a Mother and Baby home for "fallen women." The long abandoned site made headlines around the world this week when it was revealed that a nearby septic tank contained the bodies of up to eight hundred infants and children, secretly buried without coffins or headstones on unconsecrated ground between 1925 and 1961. Hundreds of Scottish Orphanage Children Allegedly Buried in Mass Grave High infant mortality rate and allegations of abuse raise suspicions of Smyllum Park in Lanark, once run by Catholic nuns Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 The Scottish child abuse inquiry is to investigate claims that the bodies of at least 400 children from an orphanage once run by Catholic nuns are buried in an unmarked mass grave.The Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark operated from 1864 to 1981. The Mother Behind the Galway Children's Mass Grave Story 'I Want to Know Who's Down There' Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 It was amateur historian Catherine Corless's painstaking research that brought news of the children's mass grave in Tuam to the world's attention. She tells how her search for the truth turned her life upside-down. Mount Cashel Orphanage Wikipedia article Resource Type: Article The Mount Cashel Orphanage was a Canadian orphanage that was operated by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in St. John's, Newfoundland. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 31, 2014 Truth, justice and reconciliation Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2014 Articles on truth, justice and reconciliation efforts in countries affected by civil war or internal conflict; Bone Collectors: the fate of the remains of Australian aboriginal people stolen from their burial grounds and dispersed to museums; the Galway children's mass grave; and Which came first: Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence? The topic of the week is the Israeli military. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015 Residential schools Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2015 This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assimilate' Native children by taking them away from their parents and communities, and depriving them of their language, culture, history, and emotional supports. Based as they were on a system of arbitrary power and cruelty, it is not surprising that they also fostered physical and sexual abuse of the children forced into the schools. We spotlight the report and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as films, books, and survivor stories. Also in this issue: the Orwellian language and tactics being used to sell 'anti-terrorist' legislation, mind-boggling subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and, on the other side of the ledger, stories of courage and resistance.

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