Belinda Luscombe, Time When terrible events happen, such as the attacks on Paris, parents’ immediate instinct is to shield their children from them. While this is perfectly natural, particularly as parents are probably having difficulty wrapping their heads around the […]
Drew Wood, Fatherly Ever look at your kid’s morning bowl of Cheerios (or their charred Pop Tart, no one’s judging you) and wonder what parents around the world feed their own kids for breakfast? It turns out, all sorts of […]
Yahoo News Damaged pipelines in war-torn eastern Ukraine are threatening to cut off water, heating and electrical supplies at a time when temperatures are plunging, putting some 700,000 children at risk, UNICEF warned Friday. The UN children’s agency pointed out […]
Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post My colleague Kevin Sieff wrote an important dispatch from Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on the country’s difficulties in demobilizing the many thousands of child soldiers drafted into the ranks of a number of feuding factions. […]
Human Rights Watch (Istanbul) – More than 400,000 Syrian refugee children living in Turkey are not attending school, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. While the Turkish government has been generous in its response toward the Syrian […]
Somini Sengupta and Hwaida Saad, The New York Times Two years old, Yazan al-Najjar is a boy without a country. He is neither a citizen of Syria, where his parents were born, nor of Lebanon, where he was born. He […]
Eric Baculinao, NBC BEIJING — China has ended its one-child policy and will allow all couples to have two children, marking a dramatic change by the country’s ruling Communist Party after more than three decades. The liberalization of family planning […]
Mariano Castillo, CNN The powerful earthquake that struck northeastern Afghanistan Monday also rattled people in Pakistan, India and Tajikistan, killing hundreds, collapsing structures and creating panic. The panic in itself was deadly — in one northern Afghan town, 12 schoolgirls […]
Astrid Zwynert, Reuters The United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) on Monday launched a $2.8 million appeal to help children affected by a typhoon that tore across the northern Philippines over the weekend, forcing thousands from their homes. At least nine […]
Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters More than half a million children in Yemen face life-threatening malnutrition as a risk of famine grows, a senior official of the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. The figure, a three-fold jump since fighting erupted […]
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