By Simone Galimberti* The international community commemorates World Day Against Child Labour on June 12 KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jun 11 2021 (IPS) – Among the many daunting issues leaders of the G7 will have to discuss in their upcoming summit in… Continue Reading
By Anthony Idowu Ajayi * – The Conversation The number of girls who marry before their 15th birthday has remained unchanged for 20 years in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The region has the highest rate of child marriage, with… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute. What else could billions of American tax dollars buy instead of innocent deaths? At the end of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was continuing to ravage the populations of many nations, Israel… Continue Reading
By María Martín |Carlos E. Cué – El País Morocco has resumed control of the border with the North African city after receiving public and private calls from the EU and foreign ministries across Europe, but hundreds of minors remain… Continue Reading
By Paul Rogers* – OpenDemocracy Israel is the most powerful state in the Middle East. Its military forces may not match the likes of Egypt or Turkey in numbers, but the might of its training, equipment, technologies and nuclear weapons… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* Escalated hostilities in the Gaza Strip have resulted in heavy casualties and large-scale displacement. More than 50 children have been killed in the current crisis in the Middle East, a senior UN official, said May 16. UNITED… Continue Reading
By Yanghee Lee* SEOUL, May 13 2021 (IPS) – In one particularly bloody day in March, Myanmar’s security forces shot and killed at least ten children, some as young as 6, in violent crackdowns against peaceful protests. Since the military… Continue Reading
By Jonathan Blitzer* – The New Yorker The Biden Administration has begun an ambitious effort to reunite more than a thousand families torn apart by Trump. For the past two years, Keldy Mabel Gonzáles Brebe de Zúniga kept a daily… Continue Reading
By Rafiqul Islam Cox’s Bazar Rohingya Refugee Camp had one of highest rates of primary and secondary age children out of school. Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the multilateral global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises, immediately allocated… Continue Reading
By Ramesh Thakur* – The Strategist, Australia This is not an article I had expected, intended or wanted to write. I have politely declined requests to write on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in relation to the current crisis in Myanmar and the… Continue Reading
By Hannah Beech – SBS NEWS(*) More than 550 people have been killed on the streets and in their homes by soldiers or police officers. At least 40 were children under 18, according to a tally compiled by The New… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman and Juan González (*) – Democracy Now! More than 500 people have been killed in Burma during protests against the February 1 military coup that toppled Burma’s democratically elected civilian government. At least 141 people were killed… Continue Reading
By Mark Lowcock* UNITED NATIONS, Mar 30 2021 (IPS) – The conflict in Syria is now ten years old. A decade of death, destruction, displacement, disease, dread and despair. I have spoken to Syrians in many parts of the country… Continue Reading
By Christine Romo, Cynthia McFadden and Rich Schapiro (*) – NBC News The new characters, Noor Yasmin and Aziz, are part of an effort to boost early education for children inside the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh. COX’S BAZAR,… Continue Reading
By Mary Robinson*, Exclusive to IPS DUBLIN, Sep 16 2020 (IPS) – The impacts of crises are never gender-neutral and COVID-19 is no exception. The pandemic has resulted in increased rates of violence against women and has exacerbated challenges in… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Sep 7 2020 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of millions of people worldwide, accounted for over 869,000 deaths, destabilised the global economy and triggered a marked rise in poverty and hunger… Continue Reading
by DEVNET JAPAN – OTHERNEWS 05-3-ON-ENGLISH This is the reason why 5 years conservable “LIFE BREAD” was born We would like to help the children suffering from the starvation in the world”. This is the reason why Mr. Terushige Nakazato,… Continue Reading
Ahmet Insel* – for VoxEurop The human tragedy being played out on the Greek-Turkish border definitively buries one of the greatest achievements of international humanitarian law – and with the blessing of the European Union. The timing is good for… Continue Reading
UN News UNITED NATIONS, Mar 4 2020 – Twenty-five years after the historic Beijing women’s conference in China – a milestone in advancing equal rights – violence against women and girls is not only common, but widely accepted, a new… Continue Reading
Robin Kelly and David Hogg (*) – Newsweek About seven years ago, President Barack Obama issued an urgent plea while speaking with Sandy Hook Elementary School families in Newtown, Connecticut. He said America was failing to protect our nation’s most… Continue Reading
