The United Nations Population Fund, will now benefit from the international communities efforts to make maternal health a global priority. Over the last 7 years the US has withheld funding for the agency, which was appropriated by Congress, amounting to $204 million. According to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) $34 million has been […]
Please see Bill Hewitt's Climate Change Blog for his recent post on Children and Climate Change and the recent report issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Under Article 37(a) of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, child executions are a clear violation of international law. ” [No] capital punishment… shall be imposed for offenses committed by persons below eighteen years of age” Iran Revokes Death Sentence in Juvenile Case, as Dubious Conviction Based on Recanted Testimony Requires Re-Trial […]
Can a laptop really change the future of a child in the developing world? IT professor Nicholas Negroponte, believes so, and it was his vision 5 years ago, which has now begun production. One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), has it's first order to fill, thanks to Uruguay, who ordered 100,000. Some are surprised that production […]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he would discuss how to balance climate change and food security in the development of biofuels when he visits Brazil next week. Speaking before leaving on a trip that takes him first to Argentina, Antarctica and Punto Arenas in Chile, Ban said he wanted to see for himself […]
The following videos are from Youth for Human Rights International which has a series of ad's to promote human rights, all of which can be viewed on their website. YHRI's focus is to teach the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to young people everywhere so that they know and insist on their rights and those […]
When there is no one willing to fight the war, who do you turn to? In the case of Myanmar/Burma, they have been turning to the children, and with the worlds largest child army, their numbers are only looking to increase. Coercion, threats and blackmail are some of the tactics used to recruit child soldiers, […]
Empty classrooms and full fields, may not sounds so frightening at first. One could be talking about field days out for a bit of fun, or seeing the children running on the soccer field. Sadly we are talking about forced child labor, and denial of education by a country, for the sake of profit. A […]
Many of you walk into the shops and aimlessly browse the the racks and racks of clothing, and just finding the right shirt can be daunting enough with out trying to wonder what pieces where made by children, and which are slave free. And the truth is that you really can't, for slavery runs deeper […]
Regardless of ones gender, rape is a violent crime that continues to violate the victim time and time again. Like a scar it never leaves you, and when society turns their backs on victims of rape, and other sexually violent crime, it only deepens. Society is well known for turning its back on victims of […]
A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death? – William Wordsworth (1770,1850), British poet. From; We Are Seven (l. 1,4). It is true that death is merely a part of life, and a fact that we must all face. However should a […]
Two Mauritanians have been arrested for allegedly forcing two children to work as slaves — the first suspects to face prosecution for a practice that many in this African country consider part of the culture, authorities said Oct. 31. The mother of the children — a 16-year-old girl and 14-year-old boy — said she […]
Are todays kids being forced into dressing sexy? Many agree that we have taken a major shift in what is appropriate versus, what is not appropriate. Barbie was introduced in the ’50s, and left many over time to complain that she gave girls an unrealistic image of body type. Barbie's with her obvious disproportionate curves […]
A French Charity, Zoe's Ark (L'Arche de Zoé) is accused of child trafficking in Chad. Chadian President Idriss Deby has even gone as far to accused the charity of accusing trying to take 103 children, to sell into the sex trade, and even sell their organs on the black market (according to a BBC news […]
