Earth day is right around the corner so get ready to stand up, spread your arms wide and give saintly, old momma nature a great, big loving hug. But you better make damn sure you’re wearing renewable socks and...
"More than 100 children have died of lead poisoning in Nigeria in recent weeks, health officials say. The number has been rising since March, when residents started digging illegally for gold in areas with high concentrations of lead.A total of 163 out of 355 cases...
Maariv, Haaretz, Yedot Ahronot, Jerusalem Post, Israeli TVs and tens of other Israeli media outlets seem to be recruited by the government of Israel now.As the aid convoys approach Gaza by the Mediterranean, the media outlets step up its propaganda and PR campaign. The...
created by Sameh Habeeb | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 464 views | 6 recommendations | 9 comments
The purveyors of the authoritarian model of raising children like to claim that indulgent upbringing breeds criminals and monsters. The purveyors of the indulgent model of raising children like to claim that authoritarian upbringing breeds violent people who cannot...
The following article written by me has been published in the May 2010 issue of the monthly Himal Southasian magazine, published from Nepal. "There is pure delight in the oral tradition of storytelling. Children...
created by rumana husain | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 3388 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
Sixty-five years is an eternity for most ten-year-olds. Chances are, anything that happened that long ago would be ancient history in their young minds. But thanks to the marvels of 21st century technology, the significance of an event that took place long before they were...
created by skintone | 3 years ago | updated 2 years ago 519 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
The basic theme taken up by the Children's Museum for Peace and Human Rights (CMPHR) this year is 'Environment'. In order to facilitate a better understanding of the issues involved in this vast theme and...
created by rumana husain | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 371 views | 16 recommendations | 2 comments
Michelle Obama childhood obesity detractors are few and far between. When the campaign first launched several weeks ago many did not know what to make of it. Through an organised effort combining several government agencies, her childhood obesity movement has built up a lot...
created by 7434be | 3 years ago 365 views | 1 recommendation | 1 comment
" Viti was six years old when she was first sold to her employer by her parents. Her parents are poor farmers in the village who live their lives at the mercy of their landlords. When Viti's parents crop failed miserably the year before, the employer proposed that he would...
created by ybdale | 3 years ago 175 views | 4 recommendations | 0 comments
I watched a documentary program on killing innocent children in Nigeria. Apparantly an Evangelist church denounces many children as witches who should be killed!!I was very troubled to see images of beautiful...
opinion by kombizz | 3 years ago 108 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Tory leader David Cameron today released plans to stop companies who aggressively market to and sexualise children. In another take on his 'broken Britain' theme Mr. Cameron attacked a society where "inappropriate...
created by Paul Conneally | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 255 views | 34 recommendations | 5 comments
The UK unlike the US is signed up to UNICEF's UN Rights of Child (except for two articles) but it is still locking up child asylum seekers a practice that Sir Al Aynsley-Green, the Children's Commissioner says...
created by Paul Conneally | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 227 views | 32 recommendations | 0 comments
They are Young Unwitting Costly Kids - 18 to 30-year-old Yuckies who won't leave-can't leave the family nest behind citing poor finance as a the main reason.
They are causing heartache and financial strain on...
created by Paul Conneally | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 1155 views | 4 recommendations | 3 comments
" The media succeeded once again to sweep everyone's attention over to the affairs of Christian missionaries and now continuously do so by carrying it onto their lawyer. How did they do that? just like they always have by using trendy words like child trafficking or human...
opinion by ybdale | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 105 views | 4 recommendations | 0 comments
Liberia, West Africa I held Jesus in my arms today... He took the form of a 3 year old girl. Her family walked to Liberia from another country in the desert. They came because there was a drought and no food for several months. It took them 3 months to walk to Liberia the...