Girls and boys in south Sudan do not need bogeyman scare stories to make them behave: the child snatchers are real. “They come with guns and steal our children,...

Muslim extremists have no shame, they will do anything to advance their agenda of global domination, including the use of children as a sick form of propaganda. The UK...

Yes, this is true, Parents are being forced to undergo checks to prove they are not pedophiles simply to accompany their children to school Christmas carol...

For millions of children in India, childhood is an elusive dream, as a UN report has revealed that 5,000 children below five die every day. It may be a shocking...

Being counsellors in an NGO like SIFF, we come across so many different types of men facing harassment in the hands of either their wives, in-laws, police, judiciary or...

All the students at Luolang Elementary School, a yellow-and-orange concrete structure off a winding mountain road in southern China, know the key rules: Do not run in...

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare study shows pre-teen children have sought rehabilitation for problems with amphetamines, cannabis, alcohol and even...

Fun in Artek Created in the Crimea of the Soviet era as a place for the best-of-the best pupils under 16 year old, a scout (pioneers’) camp Artek was a show-window...

Lately I’ve been doing alot of thinking, pondering actually. I know where I come from, I know our history. I know about the Aztecs, Hernan Cortez, and the Spanish...

It was a usual day for Rohan; a nine year old boy belonging to a lower middle class Indian family living in a small town in Madhya Pradesh. A boy with lots of sparkling...

One in five Somali children is wasting away from malnutrition. Tens of thousands need urgent medical care to survive. The whole middle belt of the country is teetering...

Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood’s children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into...

Kenya is among the first countries in Africa where Swine flu was reported but the nation is now on high alert as the flu has hit once again and this time in high...

Somali schools should stop using “un-Islamic” textbooks distributed by the United Nations, a spokesman for the Islamist group al-Shabab has said. Sheikh...

An Arizona couple accused of sexual abuse after taking bath-time photos of their children and then trying to have them developed at Walmart are suing the state and the...

Luzira prison is Uganda’s major prison where all hardcore criminals enjoy their sentences. You can never expect children to share the same environment, more so,...

Reporting from Mogadishu, Somalia - Even in a country that has endured so much suffering, few images could more tragically convey the senseless violence gripping...

An Indian Insight On the eve of the forgotten or rather not enthusiastically discussed International Literacy Day (celebrated on September 8), I thought of discussing...

“They are cheerful-looking and photogenic, but close to all have a very sad story,” said Budi Soehardi, founder of the West Timor orphanage. “Some of...

Mexico’S Health Secretary, Jose Angel Cordova, warned on Friday that at least one million people could become infected by influenza A-H1N1 during the winter...