World Children's Day

The children who work while we look away

It is baffling how normalised we all are to child labour.
20 November 2025, 03:00 AM

Child marriage still a bleak shadow on Bangladesh

Progress on ending child marriage remains alarmingly slow, particularly among adolescent girls aged 15-19, MICS findings
19 November 2025, 18:25 PM

The lost children of Gaza

There is a generation of children growing up in Gaza without family, without love, without limbs, without food, without education, without basic human rights, in unspeakable depravity, scarred by the trauma of war.
20 November 2023, 02:00 AM

EACH CHILD TO A LOCAL SCHOOL

Each six-year-old child would be admitted to a neighbourhood primary school without being subjected to a qualifying test – this is how it should work because the country has a mandatory education law in place since 1990. But it hardly works this way.
14 October 2015, 18:00 PM