This year’s two Nobel Peace Prize winners have already benefitted thousands of Nepali children and will inspire them. The barbaric attack and killing of innocent school children in Peshawar this week is a poignant reminder of the relevance of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Kailash Satyarthi of India and Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, and their tireless […]
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In the spring of 2014, the kidnapping of close to 300 Nigerian schoolgirls ignited a wave of attention and outrage that spread throughout the world. Now, months later, most of the girls are still missing and much of the world has turned its focus to other issues. The World Day of Prayer and Action for
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Every three seconds, somewhere in the world, a girl under the age of 18 is married. This means that 25,000 girls become child brides every day—or 100 million girls over the next 10 years if the trend continues. The practice has existed for thousands of years, most commonly with girls in the world’s poorest countries
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What would life be like if you could not use your name on forms, or prove your age? What if according to the law, you did not exist? Worldwide, 49 per cent of children under the age of five are not registered at birth, mostly in rural areas in less developed countries. And every newborn
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“Positive parenting” describes both a variety of actions and an overall approach. It is built on the knowledge that children develop in specific ways, and that the adults around them have a specific impact on that development. Every positive interaction that parents have with their children contribute to the self-esteem, confidence, adaptability, and overall success
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Whether you celebrate the World Day on or around November 20 or you work on children’s issues throughout the year, we would like to hear from you how you try to give expression in and to celebration, worship, meditation, reflection that strengthens and supports your work and action.
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NEW YORK, 30 May 2014 (IRIN) – Scientific advances in human biology may soon have a profound bearing on the policies that governments and organizations adopt towards young mothers, caregivers and babies in poor and stressed communities. There is an emerging body of scientific evidence to show that the environment in which a very young
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