Today, 16th June, is the International Day of the African Child, honored worldwide since 1991, the day is set in which to celebrate the life of an African child. The day was founded in remembrance of the massacres of the innocent children and adults who participated in the June 16th Soweto Uprising, in South Africa […]
Dear Esteemed Readers, Please accept my deepest apologies for the delayed and more infrequent postings in the last month or two. I assure you that the posting will soon becoming more frequent and I am working to ensure that there are no less than 3 posts a week, but hope to soon bring you 5-7 […]
“Each of us must come to care about everyone else’s children. We must recognize that the welfare of our children is intimately linked to the welfare of all other people’s children. After all, when one of our children needs life-saving surgery, someone else’s child will perform it. If one of our children is harmed by […]
Today is World Day Against Child Labor, and this year we have reached historical importance of the day as in 2009 we are also celebrate the 10th anniversary of the adoption of ILO Convention No. 182, which addresses the need for action to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Today marks the 2009 World […]
Childbirth is still too deadly in Nigeria Only 35 percent of births are attended by a skilled health professional, and one in 18 women dies in pregnancy or childbirth, according to World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) statistics. The statistics have changed little over the past decade. “Nigeria’s maternal mortality rate is […]
Earlier this month Nicolas Kristof, a long time advocate on all forms of modern slavery, wrote a piece entitled, Girls on Our Streets, in which he sought not to bring attention to modern slavery itself, but to the plight of young girls right here in our own backyard. American teenage girls continue to work the […]
“We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that the child is already someone today.” -Stacia Tauscher In a world that is increasingly fast paced we focus on today and we rarely look past the moment at hand, towards tomorrow and what will come following. However it is this inability to […]
What do you sell when you have nothing left to sell, you have no money, no food, little water, and no prospects of employment? The future looks bleak and so you sell the only thing you have left…your own child! For if you cannot sale one child then how can you feed the others? News […]
Cholera still plagues Zimbabwe Zimbabwe will soon see more than 100,000 people infected with cholera even though the epidemic appears to be subsiding, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies warned in a report released Tuesday. A collapse of water, health and sanitation infrastructure has helped drive the epidemic and has yet […]
“I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.” – Kenny Guinn (American educator, businessman and two-term Governor of Nevada from 1999-2007) Children […]
According to the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Director-General Pascal Lamy, International trade helps solve food crisis, and had not been part of the problem for the increased food insecurity of the last year and the increased level of poverty. “To suggest that less trade, and greater self-sufficiency, are the solutions to food […]
“I am not sure how many “sins” I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.” -Elizabeth Janeway (1913 – 2005) American author and critic. […]
The chains of slavery and gender-based violence run deep, they are tied to all forms struggle including poverty and armed conflict. However this is not something that just plagues developing countries, it is a scourge that is found in every American city and the key to breaking the cycle is through sustainable empowerment programs. Therefore […]
UN takes to field to play charity soccer scrimmage UN ambassadors and officials, including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, took to the field to play a game of soccer for the charitable Play31 organization. Named after Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Play31 seeks to use soccer to facilitate […]
The last week and a half has brought with it all the trials and tribulations of modern conveniences and technology. First a complete phone malfunction, then our web server appeared with some hitches and glitches, then to top it off my laptop got a virus which just seems irremovable for any point of time longer […]