Child Suicides in Tunisia
Lesson Brief
Sky News Arabia
On April 26, Sky News Arabia reported on the troubling numbers coming out of Tunisia concerning cases of child suicide. The article reported that the cases of child suicide or attempted suicide jumped in 2015 by more than 400 percent compared to 2014. According to a Tunisian government minister, suicide is increasingly seen as a form of expression by Tunisian children, who often feel like a burden on their parents due to the deteriorating economic situation in marginalized regions of the country.
Additional Vocabulary:
مقارنة به | compared to | مَثَّلَ ، يُمَثِّلُ | to represent |
تصريحات | statements | عَاشَ ، يَعِيشُ | to live |
نشرت ، تنشر | it published, it publishes (f) | مندوب | delegate, representative |
مقابل | vis-a-vis | تقرير ، تقارير | report(s) |
سَبَقَتْ ، تَسْبِقُ | it preceded, it precedes (f) | اَفَادَ، يُفِيدُ | to report |
مجلس النواب | parliament | لاسيما في | especially in |
اِعْتَبَرَتْ ، تَعْتَبِرُ | she considered, she considers | على غرار | Like |
جلسة عامة | a public meeting |
Click and Match
- scary numbers
- أرقام مخيفة
- (here) she connected it with
- اَوْعَزَتْ مع
- Minister of Women, Family, and Children (f)
- وزيرة المرأة والأُسْرَة والطفولة
- reporting
- التبليغ عن
- their sense
- إحساسهم
- (here) bad engagement
- التعاطي السيء
- to increase to
- اِرْتَفَعَ إلى ، يَرْتَفِعُ إلى
- the deteriorating situation
- الوضع المتردي
- frustration
- الإحباط
- child welfare
- حماية الطفولة