Across the globe more than 60 million girls find themselves innocent victims as child brides, despite the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child stipulation that 18 is the minimum age for marriage. While many countries have set 18 as the minimum age, others have placed 16 as the age. Other countries have yet to […]
Women, children suffer most in drought Across the Horn of Africa, women and children are bearing the brunt of drought-related famine and humanitarian organizations need additional funding to deliver lifesaving supplies, writes Caryl Stern, president and CEO of the U.S. fund for UNICEF. Children are susceptible to malnutrition that decreases their ability to fight off […]
The International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) has recently released their 2010 annual report, “building a just world for workers”. The ILRF seeks to achieve just and humane treatment for workers worldwide, from campaigns working to end the use of child labor in cocoa and cotton, to our urgent action efforts aimed at defending the right […]
UGANDA: Sanitary pads keep girls in school While other children head home after school, some pupils in Uganda’s northern Amuru and Gulu regions stay behind to make sanitary pads using cheap, locally available materials, to ensure girls do not miss school during menstruation. Pakistan polio campaign struggles in CIA aftermath Recent revelations about a […]
The drought that has stricken much of Africa, particularly Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Djibouti and Kenya, has now left at least 500,000 children malnourished and at great risk of death. According to Anthony Lake, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) executive director, children who are the worse affected by drought plagued famine, are suffering from ‘severe acute malnutrition, whose […]
Earlier this week I wrote the piece, Caylee’s Law: Is Justice Served?. The article asks the question; As many across the country were outraged at the “not guilty” verdict of Casey Anthony, is the question for justice for Caylee now to be served via increased legislation? Casey Anthony, a young mother from Orlando, Florida, was on trial […]
Much of the country was tightly glued to their televisions as the Casey Anthony trial was underway- there was virtual media frenzy pending her verdict. Casey Anthony a young mother from Orlando, Florida, was on trial for the murder of her daughter, Caylee. Caylee was last seen with her mother, Casey, on June 16, 2008, […]
The UN Security Council held its annual Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict, 12 July 2011 in New York, at which time the Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution expanding the criteria for listing parties to conflict in the Secretary-General’s annual report, the 10th Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict, published in April […]
Documenting the seldom-seen world of child brides Photographer Stephanie Sinclair is interviewed about her work documenting child brides — some as young as 5 — in Nepal, India, Yemen, Afghanistan, the U.S. and elsewhere. An estimated 50 million girls younger than 18 in developing countries were married, with 100 million more expected during the next […]
Today, July 11, 2011, is World Population Day, an annual event established to raise awareness of global population issues. The day was set by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. It was inspired by the public interest in Five Billion Day on July 11, 1987, when the world’s population was […]
The plight of Somali children, whose families are fleeing the country’s ongoing 20 year conflict and continuing drought, attempting to reach refugee camps in neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia, is ringing alarm bells at the United Nations. Somali children are dying in great numbers- aid workers have begun to discover that many are unable to survive […]
According to UNICEF some 60 million children are forced to enter into marriages before they are of legal age, half of which are in South Asia. While countries in South America, Africa and Asia may have the highest numbers of early and forced marriages, more than 2 million young girls in Europe are also child […]
Study shows that AD syringes help stem infections from vaccination shots The Measles Initiative and the GAVI Alliance (formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation) announced today that infections resulting from the re-use of syringes for immunizations have been reduced to practically zero in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a study released in the Supplement […]
Today Americans gather to celebrate as a nation both our independence and freedom. We honor those who have fought and died to give us the ability to walk this land without fear of persecution. The United States is a nation built on the back of injustice one who fought to overcome religious persecutions, escape a dark slave past, one […]
Hearing news of suicide bombers no longer causes shock or dismay, as it has become an all too common mainstay of modern warfare. The use of suicide bombers has dramatically increased since its modern beginnings in the 1980’s, which saw an average of 4.7 attacks a year, to 180 attacks a year in the first […]