Tag - Abuse
As the number of reported cases of children soldiers in countries wrought by armed conflict increases, the U.N. Council recently warned of setting stricter measures against military organizations that encourage such activities. But the announcement...
When humans turn animals they abuse their own children. The Myanmar military junta were earlier known as human oppressors; a kind of conglomeration of various devils in human forms. They had recently beaten, tortured and dehumanized many innocent...
Parents are the guilty party behind rampant physical and sexual abuse in Guyanese homes, an assertion put forward by the government officials.
A survey carried out by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) gave startling evidence, according...
Childre-related is not an uncommon issue. But the stunning figure revealed by Prof. Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro is really alarming.
Pinheiro, who was appointed to lead the UN Secretary-General’s Study on Violence Against Children, has said in a report that...
The children living in juvenile prisons are actually the children with “no tomorrow”. It’s very stunning to know that in Burundi’s prisons, there are around 160 prisoners ,under the age of 18, mostly of whom are boys. Amnesty International in Bujumbura...
Children benefit most when they have both parents to nurture them, this statement holds true when we look at the plight of children in military families.
We have witnessed that most of the veterans continue to struggle with the horrors of combat,...
The sanctimonious pride with which we espouse Indian family values has been proved to be a myth. The ugly truth is out - one out of every two Indian children has suffered some form of abuse.
Within three months of that ghastly Nithari case, the...
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India, Abuse, Children, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Kerala, Renuka Chowdhury, Nithari, Ministry Of Women And Child Development, Politics & Society
Life of youngsters in the United Kingdom is not as brilliant as it could be presumed. Recent data has postulated that more and more children, even less than five years of age, are calling up ChildLine as there are frustrated and are at the verge of...
Nearly 300 street children are at a risk of becoming prey to sexual predators in regional cities and country towns of Adelaide.
Former Supreme Court judge Ted Mullighan, QC, asserted that abuse of street children is not a new thing in the region....
UK government has come face to face with a very controversial debate centering abuse against children, who are tagged as 'Child Witch'.
There are nearly 50 cases of witch abuse levied against children, which will be published within a short...
Growing number of children today are staying with parents due to economic reasons. This is creating problems for the poor parents, as the children daily harass them.
The sudden crisis is more evident in those families having teenagers, who are...
After an at tempt made to kidnap a 4 year old child in the Virginia Beach, now parents are getting conscious and have started talking to their children’s about the dangers that surrounds them all the time.
There are many parents who don’t have a...
Peter is just 14 years old and he is forced to leave his education mid way because the school authorities feels that he is not eligible to be taught in the school? If such is the attitude of the teachers than how come will nay children of the present...
According to the UNICEF’s 2006 State of the World’s Children report most of the children in the Middle East suffer from abuse, exploitation and discrimination. Health and education services are also not accessible to the children who are in extreme need...
Child abuse is a very major problem of Comoros islands. According to the study of UNICEF, children are not only exposed to physical and psychological violence, but many of them are sexually abused.
UNICEF interviewed around 142 victims, more then...
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