Stolen Childhood

A recent national poll in Israel revealed that around 100,000 children are being victimized and sexually abused. It seems most parents in Jerusalem cannot protect their children from harm. If they can’t do it, who will? Parents should be held...

The issue of domestic violence is a largely neglected subject worldwide as it is regarded a private family affair rather than a social one. Although in every country, domestic violence is considered a crime, things get hardly noticed because of the...

Physical and sexual abuse of young children by the very people who are responsible for educating and nurturing them is on the rise. In a shocking incident in New Delhi, a 6-year old girl was stripped nude and made to stand on a desk by her teacher for...

Child refugees in South Africa have to undergo humiliation and sexual abuse. UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) found that the child refugees in South Africa, Zambia and Angola face a sexual and gender based abuse. Girls are raped by the soldiers.

A news report by Human Rights Watch has concluded that a huge number of girl workers in Guinea are being abused as domestic workers, said BBC News. The report says that many of the girls have been forced into working for up to 18 hours a day for no...

Children are the only ones who are vulnerable to all kind of atrocities, whether its porn, sexual abuse, malnutrition, hunger, child prostitution, conscription in squadron, they seen everywhere. Now, a weird thing has smacked the headlines, children.

Darfur is becoming a growing concern for the world arround. Boys in Sudan's war- torn Darfur region are increasingly at risk of being recruited into armed groups, while girls are being preyed upon by sexual violence. Radhika Coomaraswamy, the UN...

A recent report unveiled by Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Sanstha's women's study and research centre states that young children in India are not safe at all as they are subjected to abuse every now and then. The study was filtered with data's...

The days of innocence is gone with the wind and an unknown fear grapples the students of Ghana as a recent incident of alleged rape of an eight-year-old boy has come to the lime light. Established in 1985, Street Academy School in Accra was set up...

According to a report released by the Children's Department and the NGOs, 1000 Kenyan children are embracing death daily due to abuse and neglect that they are suffering from adults. Last year, nearly 50,000 child abuse cases were recorded in the...