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Mexico is planning ban on Street children. The modified article, if voted into law, would obligate authorities to send children under age 14 that they encounter on the...
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The very title of the film is enough to give you that jolts you, ask many questions, and raises many eyebrows. Slumdog Millionaire - Did it really deserve 8 Academy...
made popular Apr 17 2009
On almost every street corner, junction or traffic light, you are sure to find a young child, who should be in school, selling water, food or just anything you can...
made popular Sep 10 2008
The kids belonging to the Salaam Baalak Trust have once again made their point that if given a chance they too can do wonders.
The Salaam Balak Trust, a...
made popular Mar 12 2007
These days Uganda could be seen sifting out beggars from the capital. Why? Because the country has to pave way for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, that is...
made popular Feb 21 2007
Nearly 300 street children are at a risk of becoming prey to sexual predators in regional cities and country towns of Adelaide.
Former Supreme Court judge Ted...
made popular Feb 15 2007
Street girls are seen as a socio-economy phenomenon rather then a social category - a phenomenon created by social systems, gender rules, political and economic.
The...
made popular Feb 5 2007
Children in Yemen are increasingly taking up the occupation of begging, as they do not have any other source of livelihood. This has resulted in the increasing number...
made popular Sep 1 2006
An outspoken man by nature, Aneel Ahmad was so taken in by the sad story of the street children that he decided to make one on the Pakistani Street Children.
Titled...
made popular Aug 19 2006
Street Children in Kenya
Hungry Kenyan Children line up for food
Somali Children dying from malnutrition and lawlessness
Child in his mother lap in the drought hit...
made popular Jul 28 2006
It was a fatal ‘black day’ for the land of Bollywood ‘Mumbai’, when seven blasts within 11 minutes turned the lives of nearly 200 families into...
made popular Jul 18 2006
Reports from ILO sources states of nearly 100,000 children, who are found loitering in the streets across Lebanon. A single visit to the country will introduce you to...
made popular Jul 10 2006
A survey was conducted by Vietnam News/Asia News Network on the life of the street children in Vietnam. They study aimed to find out whether the children’s...
made popular Feb 17 2006
Abuse of street children in Egypt by policemen is something very common. Children are beaten, arrested and sexually abused. According to the Human Rights Watch (HRW),...
made popular Nov 14 2005
A study conducted by jointly by the Ministry of Solidarity and UNICEF in 2001 has revealed the two basic factors pushing Algerian children onto the streets- Firstly,...
made popular Nov 14 2005
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...
made popular Nov 10 2005
Small hands tapping on the car windows, begging for money is a very common view of Bangkok street . There are others who have been smuggled across the borders and were...
made popular Nov 8 2005
They have no home , no identity and no one to care. They have their own way of life. The streets for them are more than their family and has become their real homes....
made popular Nov 5 2005
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...
made popular Oct 21 2005
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Woman Thou Art Loosed is a film which reveals the devastating consequences of the childhood abuse on the victim.
This film is a story of every Third World children...
made popular Nov 11 2005
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...
made popular Nov 10 2005
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...
made popular Nov 10 2005
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...
made popular Nov 10 2005
Children in Africa struggle hard for survival. Growing without the basic necessities of life, without shelter, without food, without medical care is beyond the...
made popular Nov 9 2005
It’s very surprising but quite true that around one-third of the Third World’s children whose births go unrecorded are being denied of their right to...
made popular Nov 7 2005
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...
made popular Nov 4 2005
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...
made popular Oct 28 2005
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...
made popular Oct 25 2005
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...
made popular Oct 25 2005
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...
made popular Oct 25 2005
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...
made popular Oct 25 2005
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...
made popular Oct 21 2005
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...
made popular Oct 15 2005
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