News & Links
All the information that I place on the Alliance website is there to make it available for advocates of children’s wellbeing, so they are easily able to access any information they may need. If you use this service, it would be helpful if you acknowledged the Alliance for Childhood website as your source. We would also welcome any additional information, news items or research. This is the news that came in during the last 6 months. Any older items are in the archive.
Christopher Clouder
The biggest killers of under-fives in Katine: malaria
Sunday 21. of September 2008By: The Guardian
In the second of her three-part series on infant and child mortality in Katine, Sarah Boseley examines why malaria is responsible for over 40% of all deaths among the youngest villagers in the region
The biggest killers of under-fives in Katine: poor water and sanitation
Sunday 21. of September 2008By: The Guardian
In the first of three features examining the major threats facing under-fives in Katine, Guardian health editor Sarah Boseley reveals how poor water and sanitation, now being tackled by Amref, has led to disease and infant and...
Sold for £20: just two of India's million stolen children
Sunday 07. of September 2008By: The Guardian
In a country with 11 million abandoned children, the fate of those from loving homes who are kidnapped to order goes unnoticed. Many are sold for adoption, often to Westerners; others are trafficked into slavery or the sex trade...
France bans marketing television programmes targeted at under threes
Wednesday 20. of August 2008By: Daily Telegraph
France's broadcast authority has banned French channels from marketing TV shows to children under three years old, to shield them from developmental risks it says television viewing poses at that age.
Une première expertise collective met en garde contre les dangers de l'addiction au jeu
Tuesday 22. of July 2008By: Le Monde
Le jeu, nouvelle toxicomanie du XXIe siècle ? "Le chemin a été long de l'ivrognerie et du mythe du bon vivant à la reconnaissance de l'alcoolo-dépendant. Une démarche comparable s'engage autour du jeu", résume le professeur de...
Children of conflict: stress takes its toll on both sides of border
Tuesday 15. of July 2008By: The Guardian
On the Gaza-Israel frontline violence is traumatising a whole generation.
Children, 12 and 13, treated for addiction to mobile phones
Friday 13. of June 2008By: The Guardian
Two Spanish children are being treated for addiction to mobile phones, in what is thought to be first case of its kind in the country. The children, 12 and 13, were admitted to a mental health clinic by their parents because they...