News Archive
Overcoming lost childhoods: lessons learned from the rehabilitation and reintegration of former child soldiers in Colombia
Thursday 13. of March 2008By: Virginia Thomas for YCare International
Y Care International’s experience working with at-risk and vulnerable children and young people in Colombia, including child soldiers, has made apparent the need to share lessons learned and good practice in the rehabilitation...
Kenya: Entering the world displaced
Monday 10. of March 2008By: Church World Service
Two and half months since the upheaval that followed Kenya's December 27 disputed presidential elections began, over 1,000 Kenyans are dead and nearly half a million displaced. The political impasse was finally broken as...
New Anglo-French education commitment welcomed
Sunday 13. of April 2008By: World Vision UK
World Vision UK has welcomed the announcement by Prime Minister Gordon Brown of a new era of Anglo–French co-operation on education.
IRAQ: Childhood Is Dying
Sunday 30. of March 2008By: IPS News Agency
Iraq's children have been more gravely affected by the U.S. occupation than any other segment of the population.
German Tots Learn to Answer Call of Nature
Monday 14. of April 2008By: The Wall Street Journal
Each weekday, come rain or shine, a group of children, ages 3 to 6, walk into a forest outside Frankfurt to sing songs, build fires and roll in the mud. To relax, they kick back in a giant "sofa" made of tree stumps and twigs.
Parental guidance suggested
Tuesday 01. of April 2008By: The Boston Globe
With the publication this week of "Taking Back Childhood: Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Fast-Paced, Media-Saturated, Violence-Filled World," Nancy Carlsson-Paige hopes to spark a dialogue about the ways that violence in the media...
Use of brain-boosting drugs reported in survey
Wednesday 09. of April 2008By: CNN
One in five respondents to a new survey in the journal Nature say they've used drugs to boost their brain power.