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In Their Own Words: Kids Reflect On COVID-19 In Letters, Poetry And Artwork

In Their Own Words: Kids Reflect On COVID-19 In Letters, Poetry And Artwork. #Pandemic#P ...

Back in school after lockdowns, kids struggling to adjust, teenagers don’t want to open up

Children who have been studying online for almost two years are now back to school in most parts of ...

Child marriage killing over 60 girls a day worldwide, finds study

Child marriage killing over 60 girls a day worldwide, finds study. ...

Schools Shut, Haven Lost: Children From Broken Households Struggle to Survive

Whether schools are open or not is an open debate, but for several children from low-income communi ...

“Over 350 Crimes Against Kids In India Daily In 2020”: Child Rights Body

"Though there is a drop in the total number of crimes against children, child marriage has increase ...

From Covid to education: New govt journal hopes to put spotlight on children’s voices, issues

"A new journal launched by Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) is seeking to pu ...

Working 12 Hours Instead of Studying, 15-Yr-Old Needs Your Help

‘‘I used to study in 7th grade. The condition of my family was such that I had to start working ...

A new app is failing India’s fight against child malnutrition

Here's a story that talks about the correlation between India slipping the Global Hunger Index and ...

Children in India, 3 other South Asian nations at extremely high risk of climate crisis impacts: UNICEF

UNICEF's new report reveals that India ranks 26th out of 163 countries where children are at extrem ...

Mumbai: 10-year-old writes letter to CJI, SC turns it into PIL

Letter from a 10-year-old student to Chief Justice of India cites Right to Equality as he argues th ...

As extreme poverty returns, India sees surge in child slavery

Among many gains lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, child labour shows resurgence, worsened by inadequa ...

Sundori Of Sundarban: How Climate Change Got A Girl Trafficked, Rescued & Killed

The #climatecrisis leads to hundreds from the Sundarbans being trafficked. But once rescued, surviv ...

Bleak future ahead: COVID-19 pushes Karnataka’s first generation Adivasi learners off schools

"If children permanently drop out of school, it would be not just a loss of education, but also for ...

‘He became irritable, would snap at us’

"Krishna, 17, became a breadwinner for his family at age 13. After the outbreak of #Covid_19, he st ...

COVID kids: How our youngest are experiencing the pandemic

Early childhood experts say birth to five years is a crucial development period, so what happens wh ...

‘No two boys or girls are alike’: Kamla Bhasin on her books Satrangi Ladke and Satrangi Ladkiyan

"I have always challenged gender, & I have challenged boxes, for girls & boys. Instead of a ...

Rajasthan bill will have serious impact on minors, says National Commission for Protection of Child Rights

"The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has sought a review of the bill to ...

Explained: The burden of climate change on children born today

In a study published in the journal Science, researchers have found that children born today will b ...

COVID and changing vocabulary of children

"Before the pandemic, the first few words that nursery and pre-school students pick up in school we ...

Kids In India Are Asking Heartbreaking COVID-19 Questions. Here’s How To Answer Them

How do orphans live? What if I get COVID-19? Will I Die? What will happen if Mom or Dad gets COVID- ...

Covid-19 second wave can impact child nutrition in India: UNICEF

"With half the children under five in India being malnourished, the present Covid-19 crisis could f ...

Losing a parent: Here’s what families can do to help children deal with grief and loss

"In the pandemic, unfortunately, many children have had to experience this pain, with parents eithe ...

Early childhood education: A silent victim of COVID-19?

"While every educational institution in India shut down in March 2020 and most moved online to ensu ...

Pandemic heaps more hardship on street children

"Amid a fear of another lockdown, street children, the worst sufferers of this calamity, remain ign ...

Telangana: Comic book hero to help kids fight cybercrime

With the objective of raising awareness about #cybercrime among children, the Telangana Police is d ...

Worst Covid effect yet? Children dropping out of school in droves

"What is the worth of a welfare state if its children cannot attend school to get educated in the f ...

5 countries including India account for about half of total child brides in world: UNICEF

5 countries including India account for about half of the total #childbrides in the world. As many ...

How a Delhi Police library is keeping slum children in school and away from crime

With free wifi, computers and books, the Delhi Police Public Library in R.K. Puram aims to provide ...

Mid-day meal scheme should be re-activated on reopening of schools: UN

Mid-day meal scheme should be re-activated on reopening of schools: UN #Schools #Lockdown #Leher ...

Sending girls back to school

"Pandemic has led to a resurgence of #childmarriage. The key lies in empowering communities to end ...

Children in Malkangiri village take charge, repair road to school

‘We thought if the elders won’t fix the road, we will.’ These are the words of, a group of st ...

A Chilling Past, an Insecure Future: How Delhi Riots Scarred Kids

How Delhi Riots scarred children and their childhoods. ...

A day in the life of an Indian scavenger

A day in the life of an Indian child scavenger

Ten-year-old Imradul Ali doesn’t have a childhood like we had. After his school is over, Ali goes ...

Jharkhand teacher paints village walls with the alphabet to help students learn during the lockdown

This Jharkhand teacher paints the village walls with alphabets to help students learn during the lo ...

It’s time India thinks harder about our policies for children – our future depends on it

"We must secure for children a life of dignity with equity and sustainability as a larger public go ...

Meet Seema Dhaka A Delhi Police Officer Who Rescued 76 Missing Kids In 3 Months!

Meet Seema Dhaka, a police officer who rescued 76 children in three months and became the first wom ...

But what about the children?

Vaccines have been given emergency use approval but there is no clarity on whether children under 1 ...

Kashmir: Children With Disabilities Struggle to Study During the Pandemic

“Online classes do not work for children with hearing impairments, and so the pandemic has brough ...

Meet TIME’s First-Ever Kid of the Year

"15-year-old scientist and inventor Gitanjali Rao has been named TIME’s first-ever Kid of the Yea ...

Two-thirds of the world’s school-age children have no internet access at home, new UNICEF-ITU report says

Two-thirds of the world’s school-age children – or 1.3 billion children aged 3 to 17 years old ...

How covid-19 is changing the way mothers parent their daughters

"With... schools and colleges forced online, extracurriculars cancelled and tests such as the SAT p ...

Video by Anubha Bhonsle - A child in Assam talking about his problems with online education

No money, No phone | Digital Divide Series from Assam | Anubha Bhonsle

"How can I study!" Prakash Namasudra asks. He is a class sixth student at a government high school ...

Online Education | Taking a boat to e learn | Anubha Bhonsle

Rina Biswas, a student at a government high school in Assam is the daughter of a daily wage earner. ...

Photograph on MSN.com - Children studying during covid

What school looks like now — in striking pictures from around the world

These images tell stories of children and their childhoods in classrooms across the world. #Lockdow ...

IITian Duo's YouTube Channel Helping fun learning for kids

‘Why Do Tigers Have Stripes?’: IITian Duo’s YouTube Channel Makes Learning Fun for Tribal Kids

Tribal children of Gudalur in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiri District have new ways of learning fundamental c ...

Teenager in front of a laptop studying - by UNICEF

How teenagers can protect their mental health during COVID-19

"Being a teenager is difficult no matter what, and the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is making it ...

A robot is nudging kids at a tribal school in India into washing their hands better

"When kids in Wayanad’s Government Primary School Chithragiri in north Kerala go to wash their ha ...

The slowly disappearing students of Sundarbans

The Slowly Disappearing Students Of Sundarbans. “The odds are stacked against schooling in villag ...

Opinion I How to talk to your kids about the news?

“To share or not to share news of current happenings with the children? That is one of the many d ...

Students Wearing Masks and attending a school

The absurd need to push school children into software coding

"The classic question is this: Should we teach our children to be bricklayers in middle school or s ...

Can India Go Back to School Now? What Parents & Principals Think

As few states in India have partially reopened classes for 9-12 with consent from parents, watch th ...

Education Debate - NEP - Illustrative Image

The Big Debate On National Education Policy: Politicians To Academics Answer Six Big Questions

Six big questions on the #NationalEducationPolicy answered by politicians and academicians. What's ...

13-Year-Old Raped, Strangled In UP; Cops Deny Eyes Gouged, Tongue Cut

A 13-year-old raped, strangled in Uttar Pradesh. When will this end? #NoCountryForChildren #IndiasC ...

Schoolkids: digital divide to digital partition

Online education exposes India's #digitaldivide where parents from low-income communities cannot af ...

Ratna Pathak, Kalki Koechlin and others tell stories for children under lockdown

Here's some mid-week motivation for all of us. This feature article in Mint Lounge pens down the ph ...

Oxford Done, Malala Yousafzai’s Not Sure What’s Next. For Now, Netflix

A girl who was shot for attending school is now an Oxford Graduate! Congratulations, Malala Yousafz ...

Coronavirus | Covid-19 might push 120 mn children into poverty in South Asia, including India: UNICEF

"An estimated 120 million children living in South Asian countries, including India, could slip int ...

Veer and his family testing out the game | Photo Credit: Special arrangement

A 10-year-old in a Delhi school developed a board game around COVID-19 and it’s now available online

A 10-year-old in a Delhi school developed a board game around COVID-19 and it’s now available onl ...

Vanavil: rainbow in the storms of lockdown life

Here’s something to cheer you this #Monday A small school in Nagapattinam has become the centre o ...

Delhi Schoolboy Held Over Shocking Chatroom, 20 More Students Identified

Why does #BoysLockerRoom not shock me? Children are sponges. They absorb and reflect exactly what g ...

Twinkle Khanna’s “Mother’s Day” Monologue Will Leave You In Splits

What mothers really want for #Mother'sDay but can't tell their kids! Twinkle Khanna's #MothersDay m ...

Quint Illustration Picture of a Mother - Leher NGO in India

How COVID-19 Came Down Hard on Indian Mothers

How #Coronavirus came down hard on Indian Mothers #MothersDay ...

Cycling Federation’s trial offer to Bihar teen who biked 1,200 km is the worst kind of insensitivity

Teenager Jyoti Kumari rode a bicycle, covering 1,100 km from Gurugram to Dharbhanga with her father ...

Ishaan Abraham Pichamuthu and Yohaan Benjamin Pichamuthu love reading comics

Tamil Nadu Siblings Used Lockdown To Make Comic Books, Sell Them On WhatsApp

#GoodNewsMonday Two siblings in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu has released a new comic book for ch ...

PARI - Photo of a child carrying vegetables

Lockdown burden on little shoulders in Latur

With their parents out of work or at reduced wages, school students from distressed families in Mar ...

Hyderabad: Cooped up indoors for weeks on end, children are facing a silent trauma

With schools shut, playgrounds inaccessible and venturing out ruled out, children are facing a toug ...

Coronavirus: Why washing hands is difficult in some countries

With the #coronavirus pandemic, we all know how important it is to wash our hands. Even celebrities ...

Bikhare Rishte

Ever wondered what happens to children when they are separated from their parents who are in prison ...

What does India’s youth want?

India is leading the surge in youth population, with projections by the Government of India estimat ...

Revealed: 10,000 child refugees risked their lives to enter Britain

More than 10,000 unaccompanied children are believed to have entered the UK over the past decade us ...

What US Schools Can Learn From Finland’s Approach to Education

What happens when a country decides that one of its most precious natural resources is its children ...

Meet Padma Shri HC Verma, who struggled to pass in school, teaches India Physics today

A teacher must first fall in love with the subject he or she teaches before expecting the students ...

Children’s ‘parliament’ discusses Union Budget, pledges last-child-as-first-priority

Children’s ‘parliament’ discusses Union Budget, pledges last-child-as-first-priority. ...

India climate activist Licypriya Kangujam on why she took a stand

She is only eight, but Licypriya Kangujam has already been campaigning for action to tackle #climat ...

Boro Baski with some of the children who attend the school

The Indian school where Indigenous children are ‘never outsiders’

The Indian school where Indigenous children are 'never outsiders'. ...

Who Cares About One Missing Child in an Indian Slum? Another Child

Who Cares About One Missing Child in an Indian Slum? Another Child. Here's a review on The “Purpl ...

Eco India: A school in Delhi is ensuring education about the environment happens outside classrooms

An environmentalist's school curriculum is helping children understand where their food comes from ...

CAA: UP Police Tortured Children Swept Up In Citizenship Law Protests

Five children share detailed accounts of 48 hrs of violent abuse at the hands of the Uttar Pradesh ...

Alexa, where are my child’s manners?

Home-based voice assistants like Alexa and Google Home may be good learning aids for children, but ...

Children addicted to inhalants - Picture

30 lakh children across India are addicted to inhalants

30 lakh children across India are addicted to inhalants. A shocking statistic that needs immediate ...

Does keeping kids offline breach their human rights?

Children are making the case for a smarter, safer approach to technology—but they need adults to ...

Thousands of children under 14 have been investigated by police for sexting

Thousands of children under 14 have been investigated by police for sexting in England. How long be ...

12 in week, 77 in month, 940 in year: Spate of children’s death rocks Kota

Spate of children's death in Kota, shows no signs of dying down. How many more such epidemics shall ...

Children suffering as number of countries in conflict is highest in 30 years, UNICEF says

“Attacks on children continue unabated as warring parties flout one of the most basic rules of wa ...

“It’s OK, It’s Just An Exam”: Letter From School Principal Goes Viral

If your child does get top marks, that's great! But if he or she doesn't, please don't take away th ...

How Marginalised Villagers In Belwa Are Fighting For Their Children’s Rights

That’s what the power of community can do... Send children back to school, ask relevant questions ...

In India, children often inherit crime, says Justice Chandrachud

Delivering the keynote address at the fifth National #JuvenileJustice Consultation, Justice Chandra ...

In Poonch, the Lack of a Road Hampers Education

When the road to a child’s classroom is not an easy one and we aren't even talking about quality ...

‘I don’t feel like I’m a teacher’

What happens when a teacher doesn't feel like a teacher? ...

2.3 Million Indian Children Not Vaccinated for Measles, Second Highest After Nigeria

With a whopping 2.3 million children unvaccinated for measles, India becomes the second highest c ...

How Marginalised Villagers In Belwa Are Fighting For Their Children’s Rights

That’s what the power of community can do... Send children back to school, ask relevant questio ...

How these 5 children are making the world a better place.

From advocating for child rights, climate action to performing a surgery at the age of 9, these chi ...

Children in Delhi smoke 10 cigarettes a day just by breathing

Children in Delhi smoke 10 cigarettes a day just by breathing. What are your thoughts on Delhi's to ...

In India, children often inherit crime, says Justice Chandrachud

Delivering the keynote address at the fifth National #JuvenileJustice Consultation, Justi ...

The best children’s books of 2019 for all ages

From mental health to the climate crisis, children’s books are tackling relevant topics. Here are ...

How India’s Most Important Law for Children’s Safety is Leading to Unsafe Abortions Among Teenagers

The conflict of the POCSO and the MTP Act is making doctors hesitant to provide services to girls ...

350 Crimes Committed Against Children Every Day in India in 2017, UP, MP Top the List: Report

The NCRB data reveals 350 crimes against children committed every day, a whopping 20 percent incr ...

Innovative field research in India helped Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo win Nobel Price in economics

For the last two decades, Nobel Laureates' and economists Abhijeet Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Micha ...

Interview: Kids Around the World Photographed Surrounded by Their Weekly Diet

Photographer #GreggSegal set out to discover what a week’s worth of food looked like fo ...

The Open is No Place for India’s Children to Go

"Children are persons too, and as such, entitled to not only justice but also protection. Yes, this ...

India Cricketer Shafali Verma Grew Up Training in Guise of Boy

Shafali Verma had to chop her hair short, so she could look like a boy, since no cricket academy ...

The lingering impact of bullying

Clinical Psychologist Sonali Gupta talks about the lingering impact of bullying that begi ...

Delhi: For 5,600 private school seats for disabled, education dept receives 44 applications

With hardly 0.7 % seats filled for children with disabilities in private schools in Delhi, our educ ...

Beedi Rolling is Robbing Rural Bengal’s Girls of Their Childhood

As India bans e-cigarettes fearing an epidemic amongst children and youth, here’s an account on h ...

Speaking in many tongues

While the intention of the draft New Education Policy that lays the emphasis on teaching multiple la ...

Climate activist Greta Thunberg on the #1 thing people can do to help mitigate climate change

"... I think what we should do as individuals is to use the power of democracy and make our voices h ...

An Open Letter to the world’s children

"Childhood has changed, and we need to change our approaches along with it,” said Henrietta.H.Fore ...

Fridays for Future: How Students From Across India Protested Against Climate Change Today

"Activism works. So act. See you on the streets!" These words echoed by 16-year-old climate activist ...

I am proven joyously wrong’: picture book about trans child wins major prize amid moral panic.

Julian is a Mermaid', a picture book about trans child wins a major award. ...

What does it take to promote multilingual literacy

Dhir Jhingran – IAS officer turned social entrepreneur – speaks about effective literacy practic ...

Assam’s NRC: These children could be stateless soon

In Assam’s National Registry of Citizens, these children could be stateless soon. ...

Have no girls been born in 132 villages in India?

Here’s why the claim of no girls being born in 132 villages in Uttrakhand may not completely be tr ...

Putting kids on diets won’t solve anything

Weight Watchers, a diet app intends to track food consumption, physical activity, and weight loss in ...

The Lost Child: Suno India and Firstpost present a podcast on the country’s child shelter homes.

"Why are shelter homes underfunded and not staffed sufficiently? Why is family restoration through c ...

Mental illness often stems from early-life trauma. It’s happening in Kashmir.

Indeed, adversities in childhood are the most important predictor of our mental health, not only in ...

Read the winning comic book from UNICEF’s School Superhero Comic Contest

Eighteen-year-old student and illustrator from Indonesia creates a superhero comic Cipta, that tells ...

Delhi: Eight months, many workshops later, 27 schools step closer to trans inclusion

In a step towards inclusion of all children, 27 schools including 25 government schools in Delhi hav ...

It’s time we took a seat ‘at your table’: Guterres calls on world youth to keep leading climate emergency response

Young people are already leading on climate change so it's time we took a seat at THEIR table, says ...

Child Rights NGOs Urge Govt to Increase Budget for Children Welfare Schemes

"Child safety and protection has always been one of the difficult areas and to change resource alloc ...

Mom in the kitchen, dad at work – kids will no longer see this stereotype in the revised Maharashtra school textbooks

In a society where gender equality should have been a norm, Indian school textbooks finally rectify ...

IDR Interviews | Shantha Sinha

Life and leadership lessons shared by a visionary anti-child labour activist, on changing social nor ...

595 children in Pakistan have been infected with HIV because of syringes being reused

Believed to be the world’s first HIV outbreak where the majority of those affected are children, 5 ...

Child trafficking: 300 children missing from 3 Odisha districts

While Orissa is recovering from #CycloneFani, at least 300 children from 3 districts of the state ha ...

आंगनवाडी केंद्र में बिजली नही पर गाँव विधुतिकृत घोषित / No Electricity in These Anganwadi Centers.

Anganwadi centres are expected to play a vital role in providing, pre-school #education, nutrition, ...

Data check: India fares poorly on children’s wellbeing, below Sri Lanka, Bhutan and China

India ranked 113 of 176 countries on an index that evaluates countries on the well-being of children ...

India election 2019: ‘I want child marriage to end’

"Before elections, politicians promise to stop child marriage but they don't keep their promise," sa ...

Eight years on, Syria’s children bear the brunt of war

Eight years on from the start of the Syrian War, more than 60 per cent of Syrian children surveyed b ...

Child rights body wants probe into sexual abuse videos on WhatsApp

The apex body for child rights in India is planning to create a framework for a preventive policy to ...

Baby ‘Fani’: In Bhubaneswar, Newborn Named After Cyclone Fani

Finding Fani: A baby born in Bhubaneshwar is named after the cyclonic storm. #Fani #OdishaCyclone # ...

Watch: This Afghan boy dancing after he received an artificial leg is making everyone else smile too

A cruel beginning but a happy ending, of sorts. Watch how Ahmad, a young boy from Afghanistan dance ...

Ruby O’Rourke launches election campaign which places children’s rights at the centre

Ruby O’Rourke, an Australian known for her work in early childhood and child advocacy is all set t ...

Back to school: To prepare workforce of the future, India must radically revise its education system

The country's vision for technology, specifically ed-tech, will be key to riding the next wave of ch ...

New CBSE Result: A topper wants to be not an engineer or a doctor but a dancer. Are parents listening?

It's that time of the year again when getting good grades becomes directly proportional to a child's ...

Arguing in Front of the Kids May Be Good for Them

Many parents were raised believing the old rule: Never fight in front of the children. New research ...

At least 45 children killed in Sri Lanka attacks: UN

Not far away from us, 45 children lost their lives in the #SrilankaAttacks. Are children mere number ...

Righting a political wrong — children’s right to vote

"Children’s automatic exclusion from the electorate not only fundamentally undermines their politi ...

Child Rights in Election Manifestoes 2019 | HAQ : Centre for Child Rights

#Elections2019: What Is Promised to Our Children? A quick look at #ElectionManifestoes by HAQ: Ce ...

Is it time to rewrite fairy tales?

Many traditional children’s stories are criticised for gender stereotyping and questionable morals ...

Rising air pollution harms children’s growing brains

The WHO says more than 93% of the world’s 1.8 billion children are exposed to toxic air pollution, ...

In Odisha, a School Quietly Empowers Tribal Girls With Its Empathetic Vision

The Mukta Gyan Kutira prefers teaching students through activities such as storytelling, action song ...

Killed, orphaned, sold: Afghan war takes brutal toll on children

In a country where half the population is younger than 15, Afghanistan's 17-year war has arguably hi ...

Italy bans unvaccinated children from school

Italian children have been told not to turn up to school unless they can prove they have been proper ...

India’s Poorest Women Benefit Less From Public Health, Nutrition Services

"Despite a four-fold increase in the number of women and children receiving supplementary nutrition ...

Here’s how Instagram exposure could ruin children’s eating habit

The study was conducted with the aim of examining the effect of social media marketing of snack food ...

Child marriage widespread in Bihar, Rajasthan and Bengal: Unicef report

"Although child marriages in India have declined, a few states like Bihar, West Bengal and Rajasthan ...

Wildly popular app TikTok has a child privacy crisis that Indian cyber laws just can’t tackle

"One of the world’s most popular smartphone apps has a child-safety problem that India isn’t pre ...

The Evolving Role of Race in Children’s Lit, From ‘Harry Potter’ to ‘The Hate U Give’

The Evolving Role of Race in Children’s Literature, From ‘Harry Potter’ to ‘The Hate U Give� ...

The Makers Of Oscar Winner ‘Period’ Violated Child Rights, Used Wrong Data

"The film clearly violates international and national guidelines on reporting on children and uses u ...

Substance abuse in children is assuming epidemic proportions

"Substance abuse in children is assuming epidemic proportions"- HAQ: Centre for Child Rights ...

India needs to focus on averting crimes against children – The Sentinel

It’s high time for all stakeholders to rethink strategies which can lead to ‘no child sexual abu ...

The invisible women and girls who make your clothes

"For more than two decades, journalists and researchers have reported on the unsafe and low-wage wor ...

Why parents are choosing to unschool their children

"Tired of the conformist educational code in the country, some parents are now taking the path less ...

Are private schools really better than government schools?

A survey conducted by the Azim Premji Foundation finds that Indian parents sending their children to ...

The fear of conviction deters sexual violence

"In our experience of working with thousands of survivors of sexual abuse over the last decade in Ma ...

Children of foreigners languishing in Assam jails

"As Assam struggle with the diplomatic quagmire to deport the declared “illegal migrants,” at le ...

Eradicating child marriage will take more than education and awareness

What chance do young girls stand in a system that is rigged entirely against women? ...

India Has 10 Million Working Children, But Budget Cuts Rehab Spend

"The budget reduced the allocation for the National Child Labour Project--to rehabilitate working ch ...

The Rising Number Of Street Children In India Is An Alarming Concern

A study conducted on street children talks about preserving the identity of ‘street children’ wh ...

As India rethinks labour rules, it’s missing one topic from the agenda

Full-day, quality childcare can make a crucial difference in India’s fight against malnutrition, a ...

Girls subjected to breast-ironing in UK to protect them from sexual harassment, rape

Breast-ironing, considered a traditional measure for protecting girls from unwanted male attention, ...

The dawn of digital age parenting: Should parents be worried?

The key is for parents and educators to encourage healthy internet and digital media practices. Pare ...

Opinion | Constituency-level child health map a first step

It’s time India’s development indicators moved beyond the current abstract administrative zones ...

Polio vaccine shortages pose a great risk to children, even if India is ‘polio free’

Polio vaccine shortages pose a great risk to children, even if India is ‘polio free’. https://s ...

Girls subjected to breast-ironing in UK to protect them from sexual harassment, rape

Breast-ironing, considered a traditional measure for protecting girls from unwanted male attenti ...

“Most child care homes have no child protection policy”, shows study – Times of India

"Most child care homes have no child protection policy", shows study surveying 9589 children homes a ...

16-Year-Old Boy Designs Drone to Detect & Destroy Landmines

A drone that can destroy landmines - designed by a 16 year old boy. https://bit.ly/2WquVI2 ...

The future of education, according to experts at Davos

Why education matters - opinions of world leaders at the World Economic Forum at Davos #WEF2019 h ...

Government Cuts Funding To National Crèche Scheme, Crippling Lifeline for Poor Working Mothers

What about access to child care for working mothers from the lower socio-economic strata? htt ...

The Indian village where child sexual exploitation is the norm

"Poverty and caste discrimination mean that children in Sagar Gram are being groomed by their ow ...

Almost A Third Of Human Trafficking Victims Are Children: UN Report

The ''Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2018'' from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNOD ...

Delhi Mohalla Playschools: “Earlier Children Didn’t Want To Come, Now They Don’t Want To Go Back”

"Mohalla playschool-oasis in the middle of a desert." ...

2018 was hell for children

"We live in a world where children are bombed. Where they are made to fight. Where they are atta ...

More than 14 per cent villages in India don’t have any school, shows govt data

"Over 14 per cent of villages in India don’t have schools, while as many as 10 states in the c ...

How state apathy is forcing 12-yr-old pregnant rape survivor in TN to deliver her baby

"Even as the police shamed the minor for the pregnancy, the judiciary took weeks to give its verdict ...

India’s twin taboos: Sexual assault and child abuse once again in the national spotlight

"The problems of violence against women and child exploitation are inextricably linked. Around 240 m ...

Children’s Publishers Choose Their Favorite Reads of 2018

The perfect reading list for cuddle-weather. Children's publishers vote for their favorite children' ...

Jim Copp, the Forgotten Virtuoso of Children’s Storytelling

The forgotten virtuoso of children's storytelling. https://www.newyorker.com/…/jim-copp-the ...

This 25-YO Report by The ‘People’s Scientist’ is Exactly What School Education Needs Today

“The hardship starts right at home when straight from bed the child is pulled out and got ready fo ...

India has one-third of world’s stunted children: Global nutrition report

"With 46.6 million children who are stunted, India tops the list of countries followed by Nigeri ...

The darkness below the lights

"70 per cent of the children in Sivakasi, working long shifts under hellish conditions for begga ...

Constitution Day 2018: Introduce your kids to these books

Books that will help your children understand how the Constitution of India was framed and what ...

The next time children need bedtime stories, they can watch astronauts reading to them from space

The next time children need bedtime stories, they can watch astronauts reading to them from space. # ...

‘It’s not easing losing a dad aged 10’

Dealing with loss during childhood - Meet the two 11-year-old boys who have learnt to open up follow ...

Delhi’s smog leaves children gasping for air

"I have robbed my children of a very simple pleasure in life - being outdoors. Mahika was an athlete ...

Gender, income and geography bias remain in health delivery

The Pneumonia and Diarrhoea Progress Report 2018, which tracks efforts to being down deaths from the ...

This book of stories for children will also give adults insights into the world of young people

Padmini Mongia’s ‘Baby Looking Out and Other Stories’ brings children and adults together. ...

Five Months On, Minor Trafficked from Malda Yet to be Traced

“They pick them up and take them away, these girls never return home.” Shyamali Roy, whose da ...

Opinion | A fraying lifeline for India’s deprived children

The ₹5 per child spent on the midday meal may be the most important public investment in many part ...

98% of India’s children breathing in toxic air, not just outside but also at home: WHO

98% of India’s children breathing in toxic air, not just outside but also at home says World Healt ...

The Everlasting Joy of Terrifying Children

It is often said that the Victorians invented #childhood. If they did, it was through labor laws tha ...

The Minefield of Talking With Your Children About Sexting

"Parents face a daunting task educating teens, tweens and even grade-schoolers on the hazards of sex ...

74 Private Delhi Schools Under Scanner for ‘Not Admitting’ Even One Poor Child in 2 Years

"The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) has advised the Directorate to closely ...

Iran’s Death Penalty Laws Failing Children

"During her trial the court discounted Sakaavand’s claims that her husband frequently beat and abu ...

Delhi school Hindu-Muslim segregation: Child rights body issues notice to Wazirabad school head

The North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) on Wednesday evening suspended the incharge of its ...

“Just Let Us Be” Discrimination Against LGBT Students in the Philippines

“I was depressed, I was bullied, I didn’t know my sexuality, I felt unloved, and I felt alon ...

Children in India’s Rebel Hotbed Chhattisgarh in the Line of Fire for Education

"Deep inside the forest in Kondagaon in Bastar, children are striving to better their lives by atten ...

The children living on the frontline of climate change

"Vietnam's Mekong Delta is home to 18 million people but is regularly swamped. The land is sinking a ...

21% Indian children are under-weight: Global Hunger Index

"They have extremely low weight for their height; the only country with a higher prevalence of child ...

‘We have found hell’: trauma runs deep for children at dire Lesbos camp

Violent and unsanitary conditions in Moria refugee settlement are exacerbating the horror of fle ...

Children’s literature is flourishing in India, but further effort needed to attract new readers

"The subject of children and reading has long been debated, particularly on the impact of the digita ...

Village Rockstars movie review: India’s official Oscars entry is too pure for this cruel world

Village Rockstars is a child’s perspective of our world and its people, told with a lump in its th ...

Abuse Of Children In India’s Institutions Reveals Nationwide Crisis Of Reform

The widespread, seemingly endemic abuse, including sexual abuse, of children placed in shelter homes ...

Bal Bandhu Scheme for Children in Conflict Zones

Children in conflict areas need special attention. The Bal Bandhu scheme is one of the means to save ...

Why newsrooms need to step up their everyday reportage on child rights

Why newsrooms need to step up their everyday reportage on child rights. #childhoodmatters #everydayc ...

What Happened to the 99 Immigrant Children Who Were Sent to Chicago?

Where are the children? The story of many undocumented migrant children separated from their parents ...

A Year Since Launch of Govt Scheme to Get Girls Into Science, What’s Happened?

A look at how effective the Vigyan Jyoti scheme, a government scheme to get girls into science has b ...

Children caught in conflict: Kashmir’s untold story

A call for a closer look into how the conflict situation in Kashmir is affecting the mental heal ...

Child bride survivors of Boko Haram share their horrific stories and urge lawmakers to rescue others

"Over the past four years, thousands of young women and girls have been kidnapped by Boko Haram, a v ...

The dark secrets of Thailand’s child brides

"There are no official figures on child marriages in Thailand but data from the human righ ...

Chennai: 44 Children Rescued After Crackdown On Orphanage Following Sexual Abuse Allegations

The matter came to light when 4 children started crying in front of a Child Protection officer after ...

Youths Using Stage Play To Generate Awareness On Child Sexual Abuse

The youth-led organization @ourvoix recently organised a stage play "Hota Rehta Hai", which focused ...

9-Year-Old Gang-Raped, Killed In Kashmir; Stepmother, Stepbrother Caught

Now what? Brutality on children continues despite more stringent punishment & awarding #deathpen ...

Look out for these signs of depression in your child

"Depression in children, teens and young adults can be often hard to recognize, due to varied re ...

CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: EXPERIENCING (IN)JUSTICE IN INDIA (2018)

In 2018, India saw the issue of sexual violence against young children come into the limelight after ...

Missing Game Is Now Available in 12 Languages in Support with Sandvik India

The world’s first adventure game that nudges the issue of #trafficking by putting the players in t ...

India: Seven Million Children Affected as Kerala Floodwaters Recede

"In the past two weeks, the Indian state has been hit by its worst flooding since 1924, with entire ...

let’s embrace our children

"Nationwide issues and concerns that our children are confronting should not be camouflaged by large ...

India has made little progress on infant and child feeding policy in three years: Report

The World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative report highlights several gaps in India’s policy and pra ...

“It is a pretty nasty world”: Why more Indians choose not to have kids

Why more Indians are choosing not to have children. ...

What’s Going On In Your Child’s Brain When You Read Them A Story?

"Lead author Dr. John Hutton says, there is an apparent "Goldilocks effect" — some kinds of storyt ...

More Than Two Child Rape Cases Daily In Delhi, Experts Call For Policy For Rehabilitation

With more than two cases of child rape being reported everyday from the national capital, experts ha ...

World Nutrition Day: What Do the Street Children of India Eat?

Streets are the only homes known to thousands of kids in India. But how do they survive? ...

The girl with the strawberry ring

"In Alaa's home country of Yemen, many families are going hungry. War, food shortages and disease ha ...

Child Miners: The dark secrets of Jharkhand’s mining industry

The dark secret of Jharkhand's mining industry - Everyday, thousands of #children play hide and seek ...

12-yr-old accused of attacking school kid sent to juvenile home, father cries foul

How troubled would a child be to inflict this kind of #violence? We're afraid that calls for harsher ...

Rising Juvenile Crimes: A New Age of Offence

A four year old has sexually assaulted another four year old. The television anchor calls it inconce ...

Every fourth child has stunted growth in India’s 10 most-populous cities

Every fourth child in the 10 most-populous Indian cities has stunted growth and development due to m ...

Skymet weather’s initiative: #helpthefarmer

In solidarity with the thousands of farmers who are in Mumbai... hopeful that they will get a hearin ...

Syrian kids explain the war

On its 7th anniversary, we revisit a powerful piece of the civil war in #Syria told through the eyes ...

Let’s talk about teenage violence: safety is not another word for care, writes a school principle

School Principal Annie Koshi delves into the issue of teenage violence and explains why 'safety' and ...

“I Would Like to Go to School” Barriers to Education for Children with Disabilities in Lebanon

“We are always scared of tomorrow because the school could say we need to remove him.” —Huda, ...

UP school van tragedy reflects how India’s children go to class – and parents must share the blame

The UP school van tragedy reflects how India’s children go to class – and parents must share the ...

Children’s message of hope: From the Philippines to Nepal

#‎1MonthNepal: Children of the Philippines, victims of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, send out a message ...

Centre’s proposed amendments in Child Labour, JJ law imperfect: Activist

The need for changing the Child Labour Act 1986 (CLPRA) that allowed children of all ages to work in ...

I have been molested as a child and I did not speak about it

With each story of adult survivors of child sexual abuse you learn about the loss of childhood, the ...

India: Child sexual abuse of children

The rape and murder of Nirbhaya was followed by tremendous public outcry and a great deal of soul se ...

Child’s Play

Photo Credit : Steve McCurry The importance of free unstructured play in the mental and physical ...

India’s child labour problem

India’s Mines Act of 1952 prohibits anyone under the age of 18 years from working in coal mines, y ...

Child brides in Bangladesh

Adolescent motherhood is most often not a deliberate choice. It is a consequence of little or no acc ...

It’s Hard To Speak About These Things In Public. So He Drew This Instead

Over decades, the rampancy of child sexual abuse in India has given birth to adult survivors who suf ...

Sectarian Offspring

Using imagery, Kanika Nagpal documents Muharram in an attempt to scratch the surface of conventional ...

Prisoners of a dream

India’s love affair with Bollywood is almost a religion. Many children runaway from home because t ...

Why girls in India are still missing out on the education they need

When the State fails to protect its children, families fall back on traditional systems such as marr ...