Gordon Brown calls for international criminal court for crimes against children

<p>Former PM says schools ‘deserve same moral status as hospitals’ after 168 schoolgirls killed in US-Israel war on Iran</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/12/children-killed-school-graveyard-wartime-iran">Gordon Brown: ‘Children killed, a school turned into a graveyard: even in wartime, we can’t accept this’</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://composer.gutools.co.uk/content/69afec038f08d4521f002da5">A school turned into a graveyard</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/03/minab-school-bombing-how-the-worst-mass-casualty-event-of-the-iran-war-unfolded-a-visual-guide">Minab school bombing: a visual guide</a></p></li></ul><p>Gordon Brown has called for the creation of an international criminal court for crimes against children, saying “no child should ever become collateral damage in a conflict”.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/12/children-killed-school-graveyard-wartime-iran">Writing for the Guardian</a>, the former prime minister drew on the tomahawk missile strike on the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/10/iran-minab-school-bombing-shajareh-tayyebeh-primary-what-evidence-us-responsible">Shajareh Tayyebeh school</a> at the start of the Iran conflict, which killed 168 schoolgirls, to argue that “schools deserve the same moral status as hospitals – protected places – and the same protection under international law”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/12/gordon-brown-calls-for-international-criminal-court-for-crimes-against-children">Continue reading...</a>

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