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Category Archives: Human Rights
Hope for abandoned children
Give hope to abandoned children. For the celebration of the second anniversary of Niono’s Orphanage based in Mali (West Africa), this video was made to thank all those who participate in the realisation of the project. Today many abandoned children … Continue reading
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Would-be teen bride is hospitalized in Afghan acid attack
The recent acid-throwing attack on a teenage Afghan girl and her two sisters has again focused attention on the fates of child brides. The 17-year-old girl in the Kunduz province, north of Kabul, was apparently supported by her family in … Continue reading
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India faces scourge of bridal slavery
India has the world’s largest number of slaves, among them an increasing number of women and girls sold into marriage. Women’s and children’s rights activists are sounding the alarm over the abuse of young girls as part of a growing … Continue reading
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7 Billion
I welcome “Danica” as the 7 000 000th new-born to the World! She and all the other children have the right to live in a better and safer world!
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UNHCR scales back work in Kenya
The UN refugee agency is continuing to distribute water, food and medical services to famine refugees in the Dadaab camps near the Kenya-Somalia border, but has suspended all non-life-saving activities after the abductions Thursday of two female Spanish aid workers. … Continue reading
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Inside the world of child brides
BBC presenter Nel Hedayat travels to India and Bangladesh, countries with two of the highest rates of child marriage, to chronicle what life is like to be one of the 10 million girls worldwide who are married off each year … Continue reading
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Polio-stricken Congo street band finds a global audience
Street musicians from Congolese ghettos — four of them disabled from polio, and playing makeshift instruments while seated on makeshift tricycles — have coalesced into the band, Staff Benda Bilili, which is featured in a movie that chronicles the band’s … Continue reading
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Chad, Somalia are world’s worst places for a child to get sick
A child’s survival depends on where he or she is born in the world. No mother should have to watch helplessly as her child grows sick and dies, simply because there is no one trained to help. World Leaders must … Continue reading
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School lunch as a lifeline
Either let through by the bigger children, or squeezing through unnoticed, many of the smallest were at the front when head teacher Habiba Mohamed Shuriye gave the order to serve the lunch. Their assortment of bowls, cups and jugs – … Continue reading
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Aid agencies raise alarm over Somalia education
Schools should be placed at the forefront of Somalia famine-relief efforts to avoid a second simultaneous crisis in education, UNICEF and other aid agencies say. Aid officials predict hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren will not return to school in September … Continue reading
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