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Forcing kids to become soldiers is despicable. Turning them into suicide bombers and using them as human shield is even more vile. It’s the ultimate act of cowardice to use children to do your dirty work, especially through force; or to...
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Simply raising stepchildren doesn’t satisfy the mother in Sandra Bullock anymore. She wants to have her own children.
The “Proposal” actress,...
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Filed under: Science It seems fairly certain that in the not-so-distant future the technology to allow parents to genetically engineer most of their children’s...
made popular Jun 26 2009
Tracy McVeigh and John Domokos report on the challenges facing southern Sudan Link to this video
Corline Timon shrugged her AK-47 off her shoulder and held it out in...
made popular Jun 22 2009
Recently a document landed on my desk purporting to reveal a scoop. “America”, it announced, “is quickly moving to a new ‘Momocracy’” – this according to...
made popular Jun 20 2009
The general director of of Mexico’s Social Security Institute, Daniel Karam, has accepted and announced investigative findings confirming irregularities in the...
made popular Jun 13 2009
Children selling gum or washing windshields in the streets of Mexico are as ubiquitous as traffic lights.
But a new proposal here would forbid the presence of street...
made popular Jun 2 2009
With the Vat19’s Waboba Ball, you can have the pleasure of tossing a ball on the water. This ball can easily bounce five to six feet in the air when tossed on water....
made popular May 28 2009
Designer: Wendy Uhlman.
The Powerleap Playground is one neat concept that will harness the kinetic energy from children’s movements and convert it into electricity...
made popular May 18 2009
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For many in the village of Mondul 3 in Siem Reap Cambodia poverty is a way of life, for Sov Soparath this poverty ended in...
made popular May 11 2009
The fast moving world, with parental influence on a decline, has left their young ones exposed to social nuisances. A “LifeCenter” in London has come...
made popular May 7 2009
“At school, she plays sex in class!” the little girl blurted, adding: “Sometimes in the school bus, she kisses her boyfriend!”
Tugume’s mother was shocked....
made popular May 6 2009
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Though it may be decades, Joe Harris Sullivan is waiting to die in prison for a crime he committed at age 13, one of thousands of children who have been sentenced to...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Washington
Though it may be decades, Joe Harris Sullivan is waiting to die in prison for a crime he committed at age 13, one of thousands of children who have been sentenced to...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Washington
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether long prison sentences for children who are convicted of violent crimes violate the Constitution.
made popular May 4 2009
AP, New York
A federal lawsuit claims New York City failed to properly screen a woman who used fictitious identities to adopt 10 disabled children and later repeatedly abused,...
made popular Apr 30 2009
AP, Mobile
A judge ordered a death sentence Thursday for a jobless shrimper convicted of murdering four young children by tossing them from an 80-foot-high bridge on the Alabama...
made popular Apr 30 2009
AP, Mobile
A judge has sentenced an Alabama man to death for killing four young children by tossing them from a bridge.
made popular Apr 30 2009
AP, Chicago
The nation’s first swine flu death, a toddler in Texas, is tragic but health experts say not unexpected, and they advise parents to just take ordinary...
made popular Apr 30 2009
Finally the day is over. Late into the night as I walk across the room towards my bed, my feet betray me. My intimidated brain revolts against itself. Somehow I manage...
made popular Apr 30 2009
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A young woman abducted and repeatedly raped by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda told the Security Council on Wednesday how she became a rifle-toting child...
made popular Apr 29 2009
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As we approach this holiday season, a lot of families from the fours corners of the world are wondering how they are going to make ends meet as a result of the global...
made popular Dec 16 2008
At least 2,973 former Maoists combatants who were disqualified as minors but who are still holed up in People’s Liberation Army cantonments will be discharged by...
made popular Dec 6 2008
International Criminal Court (ICC) will once again fail to deliver justice to gross Child rights and Human rights violation cases in Congo. Armed wing of UPC (Union of...
made popular Sep 8 2008
Burma has been named as the most persistent user of child soldiers, with thousands in its armed forces - some as young as 11, Human Rights Watch says.
made popular May 21 2008
AP, United Nations
The number of conflicts in which child soldiers were involved dropped sharply from 27 in 2004 to 17 at the end of last year, according to a report by the Coalition to...
made popular May 21 2008
The situation for children caught in conflict remains “grave and entirely unacceptable” because 58 groups in 13 countries still recruit and use child...
made popular Feb 14 2008
The military junta ruled neighboring country of India, currently under crisis due to pro-democracy demonstrations is reportedly using all methods to recruit soldiers...
made popular Oct 31 2007
Africa has made leaps towards the ideals of progress and advancement, but it’s not a secret that a lot of distance is yet to be covered. Much of Africa remain...
made popular Sep 27 2007
Continuous fight among DRC government troops and local Hutu and Tutsi militias in Congo deserves as much international attention as the condition of civilian is...
made popular Sep 20 2007
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...
made popular Aug 11 2007
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...
made popular Aug 6 2007
Children who are conscripted in the army would now taste the glimpse of homely atmosphere. According to authorities of the UN, radical leaders in the Central African...
made popular May 19 2007
While world attention has focused on child soldiers in Africa, industrialized countries also recruit teens under 18-a violation of the spirit if not the letter of...
made popular May 8 2007
After a brief cease-fire that was declared in 2001, brought an end to the fighting between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for a while...
made popular Dec 19 2006
Schoolgirls smiling, a rare picture hard to miss
Walking bare-foot on the hard stones of life...but Alas life is a struggle and they have to take responsibilities of...
made popular Sep 22 2006
Despite a high-level committee set up by the Myanmar government to crack down the recruitment of child soldiers by the armed forces, not much progress seems to be...
made popular Sep 20 2006
Once again, the life of Sudanese Children is being turned into a living nightmare as more and more Armed Groups are abducting them every year. The situation is getting...
made popular Aug 23 2006
More than 5,000 child soldiers are said to be held by the LTTE leaders in the combat groups. A tip from the human rights group says that the rebel groups are...
made popular Aug 14 2006
Children in Democratic Republic of Congo are facing one hurdle after the other. First, they were the victim of the diamond trade and witchcraft abuse and no sooner, the...
made popular Jul 31 2006
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