According to a recently released UNICEF report, Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Development, some 200 million children in the developing world currently suffer from stunted growth, due to chronic undernutrition. Chronic undernutrition, is a factor in over a third of all deaths in children under five years-old. This often unnoticed and often silent killer, […]
UNFPA: Impoverished women bear brunt of climate change The UN Population Fund has found the world’s primary agricultural workers — impoverished women — will bear the brunt of catastrophic climate change resulting from global warming. The UNFPA called for greater equality for women to relieve the disproportionate burden they are bound to experience from weather-related […]
The Foreign Policy Association’s Children’s Blogger, Cassandra Clifford, has a chapter in the newly released ‘At Issue: Slavery Today’, designed for middle and high school students. Cassandra, who is also the Executive Director and Founder of Bridge to Freedom Foundation, which assists survivors of modern slavery, including victims of sexual and other coerced labor trafficking such as […]
Many of you may have heard on the news about a missing five-year-old Shaniya Davis from Fayetteville, North Carolina, which first broke news this week as news of her disappearance led authorities into a desperate search for her safe return. The young girl was reportedly taken from the mobile-home of her mother while on a […]
A series of natural disasters has his Asia in recent months leading to increased concern for child malnutrition, as food security rises. There is no question that optimal infant and young child feeding is essential for optimal growth and development. Optimal feeding includes; breastfeeding exclusively for six months, and providing appropriate complementary foods with […]
FAO: World ripe for another food crisis More international aid to combat higher food prices and insufficient production in developing countries is needed to stave off another food crisis, warns Jacques Diouf, director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization. “There is a lack of priority in fighting hunger and poverty at the highest political […]
According to the National Center on Family Homelessness, one in every 50 American children experiences homelessness. Homelessness affects children in a multitude of ways, including both their physical and mental health. Over two million youths, between the ages of 12 and 24, will experience at least one episode of homelessness each year. More than 100,000 […]
Its official we have entered the holiday season, the Halloween costumes are safely tucked away until next years hauntings and the streets are quickly beginning to come to life with glittering lights. For most of us the lists are beginning as time of gift giving is quickly approaching. But as you begin your holiday shopping […]
A story sure to give you nightmares is the harrowing story behind child labor across the globe. Whether it is costumes made from cotton picked by child labors in Uzbekistan or clothing sewn by child labors, ghoulish make-up with minerals mined by child labors, chocolate candy-bars made from cocoa picked by the hands of child […]
U.S. might accept spousal abuse asylum claims The Barack Obama administration’s recommendation to grant asylum to a Guatemalan woman fleeing severe spousal abuse opens the door for other battered and sexually abused women in other countries to seek refuge in the U.S. Rody Alvarado Pena’s case had languished in immigration courts for 14 years. Federal […]
Is child obesity abuse? That is the question that has been raised by many over the past few years. As the issue plagues teachers, care providers and doctors as the rates of childhood obesity increase. According to the American Obesity Association, obesity among children and teens is beginning to reach epidemic levels, as some 30% […]
The United States has done it has topped the list, were number one…but this is one list and ranking we don’t want to go dancing in the streets about. Shockingly to many the US is the cheerless leader of deaths related to child abuse and neglect. Five children die each day in this country as […]
Africa failing to protect children from HIV/AIDS African leaders should be more serious about protecting the continent’s children from AIDS and it is time for them to change state spending priorities, Nelson Mandela’s wife Graca Machel said on Thursday. “No matter how small our budgets, we must do something. We will not get there (HIV […]
Robin Morgan, an American author, feminist, and child actor, made the following statement in her book, Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape, in, The Word of a Woman, part 1, which which was written in 1974, but published 1992; “The act of rape is merely the expression of the standard, ‘healthy’ even encouraged male fantasy […]
