The 9-year-old “Brian A.” lived for seven months in an overcrowded Shelby County emergency center as part of one of the most dangerous child welfare systems in the nation, according to New York-based Children's Rights , which joined with Tennessee...
Children have fought in wars throughout history and into mythic pre-history. | David was not an adult when he slew Goliath. Napoleon's forces were preceded on to the field at Waterloo by drummer boys, who were mown down by English fire. | Yet even in remote antiquity there was seen to be something anomalous and wrong about thrusting children into harm's way.
UNICEF calls for the immediate cessation of child recruitment by all armed groups in the CAR and urges all parties to protect children against the harmful impact of, and their involvement in, armed conflict in the country.
Lawyers are calling for laws on minors' welfare to ensure children's rights , following a recent blaze that killed seven people in a makeshift "foster home" Central China's Henan province. Yuan Lihai, a woman who never received a formal education, had nursed...