I will not work for any company, big or small

Until recently, 14-year-old Daham was just another child carpet weaver. When he left his Bihar village to find work in UP's Mirzapur district, he …

Shaken innocence

The widely reported case of Matthew Eapen's death has highlighted the ignorance regarding the "shaken baby syndrome"

International Girl Child Day: Crimes against girls on the rise in India, especially eastern states

Strenghening community-based child protection systems imperative

Stillborn in Africa: UN pegs number at a million every year

Situation has worsened in 2 decades, may slip further due to COVID-19 pandemic, warns Unicef report

Last mile smile

Communities are coming together in Jharkhand to create vigilance mechanisms to enforce food entitlement programmes

Simply Put: Gifts from Santa, anyone?

Child participation: Adolescent leadership should extend beyond schools to recognise children as political citizens

There should be action to make child participation robust & sustained institutional process  

Teacher shortage: Sub-Saharan Africa needs 15 million new educators despite gap closing globally

Recruitment target hardly changed in the region since 2016

Global food crisis: 1 new child suffers severe malnutrition every 60 seconds, says UNICEF

Almost 8 million children, mainly in Africa, at risk of deaths from severe wasting

COVID-19: Wasting in children increased in low, middle income countries due to economic shock

Economic shocks increase risks of inadequate dietary diversity among children

Discouraging breastfeeding: 50% pregnant women, parents targeted by misleading baby food marketing

Sales of formula milk more than doubled in last 2 decades

Hunger costs Ghana $2.6 billion per year

24 per cent of all child mortality cases in Ghana are associated with undernutrition

China abandons one-child policy after three decades

Policy has been criticised for posing a demographic crisis

China goes in for eugenics

Unashamed exploitation

Placental help

Blood stem cells from the placenta could be a major help in treating leukaemic kids

SOUTH AFRICA

Price for early school

Scalp protection

Lost generation

UNITED NATION

Maddening effect

INDIA

No chapattis

For some young children, wheat is like poison

Duty free

Uttar Pradesh can't deliver vaccines to its children. But it wants to import vaccine