children’s rights

The Pandemic’s Cruelty Visits the World’s Children

June 18, 2020

There are about two billion young children in the world today, ranging from infancy to 14 years old, and most of them live in developing nations in the global south. That is also where the Covid-19 pandemic is spreading the fastest. Three of the top 10 countries in numbers of rapidly rising cases, as of …

Covid-19, Development, Education, Secretary-General

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Advocates for Besieged Children Say Collaboration Is Essential

May 1, 2016

by Barbara Crossette

Grim images from the small world of children are multiplying. Little bodies adrift in the Aegean and Mediterranean seas. Uncomprehending faces pressed against wire fences and barricades in Europe from the Balkans to the French port of Calais. At least 17 Syrian children and their pediatrician slaughtered by a bomb apparently targeting a hospital …

Africa, Asia, Child Soldiers, Middle East

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children’s rights

The Pandemic’s Cruelty Visits the World’s Children

Advocates for Besieged Children Say Collaboration Is Essential

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