The unwitting victims of war are the children, often caught in the crossfire and used a pawns, however the risks effects of war linger on for children. The war never ends the day the news cameras quit rolling and the troops pull out. The images of war remain forever etched in a child's mind, shaping […]
A lead prosecutor for the war crimes tribunal at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay said the U.S. military lost a year's worth of records pertaining to the detention of Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan. Hamdan's legal counsel requested access to the records to support their claim that his detention left him […]
Let us then forget not to seek and search for truth and see the beauty in all that surrounds us. The truth is the key to the future, beauty is the knowing and seeing a peaceful future for all the worlds children.
No one needs to tell us that children who have proper diets of nutritious food from an early age will have opportunities at a more prosperous life than their malnourished counter parts. Nutrition directly relates to a child's health, but what about a child's future wealth? According to a recent study in The Lancet, a […]
The issue of HIV/AIDS among children is not a new one, especially as the virus continues to blight the continent of Africa, and many other developing nations. Millions of children have been given a death sentence at birth, millions more are left to suffer their dark fate alone as orphans. The number of mother […]
Teen terror suspect argues that current international law regarding to the use of child soldiers, rules out over the the governments efforts to prosecute him as a war criminal. Omar Khadr, was only 15 years old when he was captured and detained by United States military forces in July 2002, for throwing a grenade which […]
In a release issued on January 29, 2008, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged that he United Nations impose sanctions against those countries that partake in the use of child soldiers. Ban's statement was largely related to the Children and armed conflict Report of the Secretary-General, which was issued on December 27, 2007. The report, which […]
An international study into the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) shows that each month 45,000 die from the consequences of war, disease and malnutrition. The fighting has cost the country 5.4 million lives in the last ten years, more than half of which where children, the largest death toll since World War […]
Children look to us, the adults for guidance and inspiration, they look to us and they see their future. Therefore it us up to us to give them images of hope, leadership, strength and justice. We give our children two options, violence and hate or peace and love. One only has to look at the […]
An opposition leader with Kenya's Orange Democratic Movement, David Kimutai Too, was killed in what police officials described as a “crime of passion.” ODM leader Raila Odinga called the killing an execution targeting ODM members. “David Kimutai Too was killed by a policeman. I condemn this second execution of an ODM member of parliament. The […]
When it comes to issues of children's rights there is no debate as to the fact that children should not be abused either physically or sexually. Therefore when the debates do arise, they are mostly on the fact that we seem to be doing little as an international community to stop the continuous and often […]
Recently Uzbekistan has begun to receive some scrutiny over the use of forced child labor in the cotton fields, however for many its long over due. The use of children in the cotton fields dates back to the Soviet era, and as a signatory of The Convention on the Rights of the Child, Uzbekistan has […]
Afghanistan has fallen off the radar for many in the wake of the ongoing war in Iraq, however the struggle in Afghanistan is far from over. Rebuilding after a war, and years of repression, is never easy, especially for the children. The children of Afghanistan have been born into hardship, they dream of prosperity, and […]
China's "One Child" policy has been consistently broken by the country's elites, but this issue is more than one of law braking and population control, it only brings light to the great divide between the countries rich and poor. Many elites ignore the laws and simply pay the hefty fines, which could amount to $130,000, […]
Children truly are the messengers of the future, and it is up to us to ensure that the messages we give them are ones of truth, peace, hope and tolerance. If we give children only images of hate and war, we give them a future of hate and war. Let us not forget the power […]