Uganda and DR Congo falls among the blacklisted countries for child soldiers, but according to close sources, the government is taking a strong stand to stop the recruitment of the young children by any armed groups.
Under the U.N. Security...
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The semiautonomous island of Tanzania, Zanzibar is currently facing a problem of children increasingly dropping out from schools, says a government minister.
An estimated 8,881 children have stopped going to school and working as child labours....
In Russia, every year the number of 'orphan babies' are increasing stupendously, due to the HIV-positive mothers abandoning them in the hospital bed.
At present, in Moscow's hospital number two, and number seven orphanage, there are around 2,200...
Michigan had never before faced a crucial problem as this. According to the latest Kid Counts report, child poverty has reached epidemic proportions with the figure rising to an alarming 29%.
In the year 2000, the count was 14 percent, which rose to...
In the war-torn country of Iraq, a new fear is taking over the people. Every week five children are disappearing in the thin air and no one has a clue of what is happening to them.
This is the information thrown open by Omar Khalif, vice president of...
According to Haq Centre for Child Rights reports, child labour in Madhya Pradesh is rising alarmingly. To put the count in an estimated number, the total number of child labours has reached 1,065,259.
So far, only 1,700 cases have been registered...
‘Face Off’ actor, Nicolas Cage has recently declared an amount of $US2 million, which he has donated to help the former child soldiers.
According to Amnesty International reports, the actor has been consistently working to raise awareness among...
Students bullying teacher is quite understandable, but teacher doing the same act do not sound good. According to a survey by The International Journal of Social Psychiatry, almost fifty percent of the elementary school teacher openly admitted of...
Everyday Rasool Baksh gets up early in the morning, takes the fishing net, and pushes off towards Pakistan's Arabian Sea coast. He is 13-year-old, but he never had the opportunity to go to school.
In the line of his family business, he took up...
Innumerable number of children in India is lagging behind in the field of education, because they fall into the category of the physically challenged children.
Those who were lucky enough got the privilege of attending their education despite the...
Study conducted by the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (Canberra University) reports that within the territory of Australia, the children of Queensland and Tasmania are the most disadvantaged ones.
The extent of disadvantages,...
The plight of child soldiers worldwide tells the same story. Since they are forced to drop out from school at a very early age and join the armed groups, they hardly have any chance of getting a job when they grow up.
Young boys who took up guns...
Seeing the lack of interest of the school teenagers in subjects such as maths, the Department of Education of England has discovered some innovative ideas to get the teens involved in the dry subject.
A few lesson plans is worked upon in which...
Laws are being made against meth users, though it is hardly stopping them from harming the vulnerable child. The meth law states that anyone who uses meth while a child is around will be taken as a form of child abuse.
However, in the eastern and...
Despite Japan proudly promoting its secure family ties, a white paper release by the government reports of more than 30,000 child abuse cases in Japan. In comparison to the last five years, the count has gone up by almost 26%.
The reports on abuse...
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