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4-Year-Old Rape Victim Dies in India
A 4-year-old girl who was raped and dumped near a crematorium in central India died on Monday evening from cardiac arrest, hospital authorities said Tuesday.
Alarming Childhood Poverty Rate
Quote of the Day, October 18, 2012 Like music or religion, poverty’s causes can be many and varied. Calhoun County is the perfect example. That so many of our children live in poverty — 1-in-3 in 2010 — is the painful proof. So, a question: Wha...
Girls Determined to Fight Guns With Books
Shazia Begum, one of three girls injured in the attack on the Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai says the Taliban had sought to silence a very influential schoolgirl. “Malala is a source of inspiration for all of the students in Swat,” Shazia Begum told IPS at the Combined Military Hospital in Peshawar where she is being [...]
UN Women: Approaches to End Child Marriage
On 19 December, 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 66/170 to declare 11 October as the International Day of the Girl Child. For its first observance, this year’s Day will focus on child marriage, which is a fundamental human...
A Schoolgirl’s Odyssey
Malala Yousufzai, an outspoken 14-year-old girls' education activist and winner of Pakistan's first National Peace Prize, was shot and seriously wounded on her way home from school in a van on Tuesday. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the...
Invisible Citizens: Poverty and Poor Children Off Radar Screen at Presidential Debate
Quote of the Day – October 4, 2012 “Again, poor children remain politically invisible,” said Irwin Redlener, a pediatrician, president of Children’s Health Fund and professor at Columbia University. “In a debate focused on the economy, it...
A Closer Look: Poverty Increases at State Level
Quote of the Day – September 26, 2012 While the overall percentage of people living in poverty nationwide did not change significantly between 2010 and 2011, individual states saw increases in overall poverty and poverty among children and the un...
Chile: Indigenous Children Among the Injured After Violent Eviction
Headline Title: Chile: Indigenous children among the injured after violent eviction 30 July 2012 The Chilean authorities must ...
Labour and Sexual Exploitation: Two Things to Keep in Mind Today on World Day Against Child Labour
On the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour, two United Nations independent human rights experts today highlighted that of the 215 million children working throughout the world, more than half are subjected to the worst forms of child labour, inc...
Haiti: UN opens probe into cases of alleged child sexual exploitation
The United Nations announced today that it is investigating two cases of sexual exploitation of children allegedly committed by its police personnel in Haiti.
