What happens when children are asked to fend for themselves? When there is no one o’er their heads to check the situation especially when it is going out of control? What happens when the same children are living the lives of orphans?…But it’s a...
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We believe-‘Children are God’s gifts’, however, the irony is they are not treated the same everywhere. Slavery system which has been abolished (or so we think) centuries ago, we can still find hundreds of examples of bonded slavery till now. What we...
We are witnessing a surge that would become a trend in the years to come. Why? UK, a nation that is looked upon as an icon by most of the developing as well as under- developed countries so whatever happens in this nation has to happen in other...
As evening falls, everyone reclines back with their loved ones in their homes and as the evening morphs into hours of darkness we fall into slumber in our warm cozy beds but ‘she’ has a different story.
Zainab, mother of five year old, a victim...
Why does is always has to a child who faces abuse? Whether he is an orphan, a school child or a wonder kid like ‘Budhia’ the marathon child king of India, there are culprits in the so-called cultured society, who under the mask of a civilized...
Globally efforts are being made to prevent the recruitment of child soldiers by the rebel powers. In this context, in the month of February, nearly 58 nations across the world signed an agreement titled the ‘Paris Principles’ so as to prevent any...
An analysis conducted by the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that children in those countries who were forced to fighting wars are more vulnerable to post–war disorders and hence more likely to have a revenge motive burning within...
Researches have proved it time and again the maturity level of boys and girls in the same age is hugely different. While a girl seems to mature at a very tender age, a boy takes time in comprehending the emotional side of life.
The functioning...
Despite the fact that legal laws are imposed against child abuse, the tragic plight never ends. Recently, a report released by the Human Rights watch organisation in Spain states that the lives of nearly hundreds of children who have migrated from...
What would you have done, had your child being forced to sell his innocence for “Rs. 1 kilo of foam”? You can hardly even think of it right? But that is a gruesome fact, which many a child in India is gripped by? The claws of child labour are gnawing...
After the case of indictment by a couple, who were conspiring to extract £2.5million from the parents of the little girl, news regarding the whereabouts of Madeleine McCann has again hit the headlines, now it’s coming all the way from Maastricht. A...
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