News Archive
Child’s Play
Monday 20. of August 2007By: New York Times
The great toy crisis of 2007, the national anxiety outbreak caused by lead paint and dangerous magnets from China, toymaker to the world, leaves millions of parents facing a quandary — What about Christmas? — and a larger...
'People treat you as if you are nothing'
Wednesday 29. of August 2007By: The Guardian
It's a hot, sunny day on Goree Island, a short boat ride from Senegal's bustling capital, Dakar. In the cooling shade of an overhanging tree in the grounds of Mariama Ba school, Aminata Deme talks about a short film on slavery...
Foetuses aborted and dumped secretly as India shuns baby girls
Saturday 28. of July 2007By: The Guardian
A hundred yards from a school playing field on the edge of Nayagarh, a small town in eastern India, is an innocuous damp circular patch covered with what appears to be sticks and stones. A closer look reveals that the debris is...
Les soupes populaires de l'ancien Berlin-Est accueillent de nombreux enfants
Tuesday 04. of September 2007By: Le Monde
C'est au sous-sol d'une ancienne école coincée entre les grands ensembles sans âme de ce qui fut Berlin-Est que Steffi S. déjeune presque tous les jours avec ses deux enfants. "On n'a pas à avoir honte ici, dit cette célibataire...
80m Indian children in child labour, says report
Saturday 01. of September 2007By: The Muslim Weekly
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While children in Britain are preparing to go back to school, an estimated 80 million children in India will not have this...
UN launches $220 million campaign to educate 9 million vulnerable children
Thursday 27. of September 2007By: a2mediagroup.com
The United Nations refugee agency has launched a campaign to raise $220 million by 2010 to allow 9 million refugee and vulnerable children, particularly those from Sudan’s Darfur region, Iraq and Colombia, to get an education,...
Nigeria: Learning the hard way
Wednesday 17. of October 2007By: The Independent
Sakina, who thinks she is 12 years old but isn't sure, never went to primary school. She grew up in Tudun Kose, a remote village in the north-west of Nigeria, at a time when families didn't send their daughters to school and she...