Uganda and DR Congo fall 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 Council...
The semi-autonomous 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. The..
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 such...
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, 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 and 35...
Osacr-winning actor, Nicolas Cage has recently donated an amount of $US2 million, to help the former child soldiers.
According to Amnesty International reports, the actor has been consistently working to raise awareness among the people to come...
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 are 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...
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