Child Marriage is none less than murdering of childhood . In the 21st Century where we talk about rights there are several such children who are deprive of their right to choose their life partners. A recent study conducted by the UNICEF highlighted that...
Tag - Third World Children
Cristina Igoa in her book The Inner World of the Immigrant Child explores the real life of the immigrant children living in the United States. She has pointed to the sufferings and oppression, which they grow through.
Igoa, who herself was an immigrant...
Living a barren life with no hopes, no restrictions, nowhere to go and no one to turn to – this is the life of the street children of Brazil. They are born to live an abandoned life on the streets.
There are around 8-10 million children leading this...
UNICEF has revealed that due to lack of clean water, thousands of children in the developing countries are suffering from various diseases.
According to UNICEF, there are millions of girls, who are not allowed to attend schools because of the lack of...
Brazil has taken an initiative to improve the lives of country’s most neglected and ignored children. The government officials of Brazil UNICEF and other humanitarian organizations as well as business leaders have joined hands together to start a drive,...
Scientists of Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK have started a research to discover a reason for a dramatic rise in brain damage cases in children in the Third World's most-polluted countries.
Biomedical researchers are trying to find out a...
Around 50,000 Third World children each year go blind because of the lack of Vitamin A in their diet. But the remedy for this has been found by the British scientists.
They have developed a new breed of genetically modified rice, which has a higher...
There are around 17 million children between the age group of 10-14 years, living in the streets of Brazil. These children do not have access to health services and education. Kids living in the streets get usually addicted to drugs, so as to subdue...
Woman Thou Art Loosed is a film which clearly reveals the devastating consequences of the childhood abuse on the victim.
This film is a story of every Third World children who undergoes child abuse. Such children either become drug addict or they...
Street children in the Third World, having no access to basic needs always become an easy prey of flesh traders. The demand of street children is high among the pimps and the brothel owners because these children sell themselves at cheap rates. ...
Corporate Kings have created have added a new brand to slavery called free trade, where the workers starve to death as they can not even arrange for the basic amenities of life. Third World children being the biggest victim of this new brand slavery are...
I was startled to know that around 40,000 Third World children die every day due to starvation and curable infectious diseases. The figure will keep adding day after day. Even if we leave aside deaths due to calamities and various other accidents, and...
Children in Africa struggle hard for survival. Growing without the basic necessities of life, without shelter, without food, without medical care is beyond the imagination of many of us. But for the African children life is nothing more than a struggle...
It's very surprising but quite true that around one-third of the Third World's children whose birth go unrecorded are being denied of their right to identity.
Every year approximately 40 million new born babies go unregistered. Since these children...
Leonie J Campbell in his book The Baby Merchant has highlighted how poverty and hunger has affected the life of Third World children. Campbell has also pointed out that the children even as young as eight are dragged into the flesh trade.
She has...
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