Society / Children
Articles about Children, ordered by date. 
View from India
Schoolchildren fall through the digital divide.
Passing it on
Keeping children fed and houses clean is part of a global care chain that can be lonely and emotionally conflicted, with the burden disproportionately carried by women. This story by Amy Hall shows how it works.
Agony Uncle
Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.
View from India
India’s record on children is puzzling for a country that is the world’s largest importer of arms and has a billion-dollar space programme. Nilanjana Bhowmick writes.
Orphans in limbo
With the Ugandan government announcing it may close down hundreds of illegal orphanages, it is not clear what will happen to the children living in them.
Our bodies, our rights
According to the UN, most surgeries on intersex babies amount to torture. And yet that is the practice in almost every country in the world today. Valentino Vecchietti calls for urgent change.
Toys from trash
Simple models by India’s ‘science magician’, Arvind Gupta, are making learning fun for young minds around the world. Priti Salian reports from a classroom in Bangalore.
Global babies: who benefits?
Surrogacy has become an international trade that needs tighter regulation, argues Miranda Davies.
Letter from Cochabamba
Working children have more pressing concerns than the law, discovers Amy Booth.
British parents boycott school census
Parents have boycotted a school census to protect against administrators being ‘turned into border guards’ by the government, Amy Hall writes.
'Everything is on my shoulders'
Serah Tomba went from being a student to sole carer of seven orphans.
Crocodile tears and con tricks
Fiona Broom reports from Nepal on the scandal of the ‘orphanage industry’.
Rushing towards death
It has been called the most dangerous job in the world. The White Helmets are a fearless volunteer force that has pulled thousands of Syrians from the rubble left by the regime's deadly barrel bombs.
Don't write in the profit margins
Children should be allowed to be children, not taught to 'turn over a profit', argues Steve Parry.
Growing upside down
For thousands of Peruvian children, daily life means working to help feed the family. Fernando Del Berro meets one of them.
Migrant families ripped apart
Sophie Cousins on Lebanon's decision to send home the children of migrant workers.
The unwelcome return of development pornography
John Hilary on a degrading spectacle that keeps coming back.
Is surrogacy a legitimate way out of poverty?
Doctors Nayna Patel and Mohan Rao go head to head.
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