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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. ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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 the total #childbrides in the world. As many ...

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 #Schools #Lockdown #Leher ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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 – or 1.3 billion children aged 3 to 17 years old ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 in England. How long be ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. What are your thoughts on Delhi's to ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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 Literature, From ‘Harry Potter’ to ‘The Hate U Give� ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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’. https://s ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. # ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 says World Healt ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. #childhoodmatters #everydayc ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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