Children articles

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.

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Serah Tomba with Satta and Paul, two of the orphans she is raising since Ebola. A neighbour’s child looks on. Photo: Hazel Healy

'Everything is on my shoulders'

Serah Tomba went from being a student to sole carer of seven orphans.

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The chaos following last year’s earthquakes left children in Nepal more vulnerable to traffickers.Photo: Julian Bound

Crocodile tears and con tricks

Fiona Broom reports from Nepal on the scandal of the ‘orphanage industry’.

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Members of the White Helmets rescue children in Aleppo after an air strike by the Syrian armed forces, June 2014. Photo: Sultan Kitaz / Reuters

Don't write in the profit margins

Children should be allowed to be children, not taught to 'turn over a profit', argues Steve Parry.

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Juan and his younger brother (peeping out from behind the bricks in the photo below) occasionally snatch moments of play, but their work is never done.Fernando de Berro

The unwelcome return of development pornography

John Hilary on a degrading spectacle that keeps coming back.

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YES: Nayna Patel is the medical director at Akanksha IVF Clinic, Anand, Gujarat, India. More than 825 surrogate babies have been born at her clinic. Her work has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show and on the BBC. She runs the Anand Surrogate Trust for the benefit of the surrogates and their families.

Is surrogacy a legitimate way out of poverty?

Doctors Nayna Patel and Mohan Rao go head to head.

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'Everybody preferred children'

Combating child prostitution in Brazil is more urgent than ever – especially with the expected influx of foreign tourists for the 2014 World Cup, writes Olivia Crellin.

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A New Delhi construction worker holds her baby close.Desmond Boylan/Reuters

Only the best... it has to be a boy

Rajashri Dasgupta explodes a few myths about educated middle-class women in India.

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YES: CHANTÉ JOSEPH is the Member of the Youth Parliament for Brent in northwest London, as well as regional secretary. She sits on the Youth Select Committee for transport and is a member of the London Youth Involvement Project. She is 17 and is studying for the International Baccalaureate.

Argument: Should 16-year-olds get the vote?

Politics academic Andrew Mycock and UK Youth Parliament member Chanté Joseph go head-to-head.

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Girl-friendly: new toilet facilities at the Ga’an Libah school in Somaliland.NGO Africa Educational Trust

Letter from Botswana: 'There's a good side to this HIV'

A new birth offers a sign of hope for Lauri Kubuitsile.

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Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title	From magazine	Publication date
View from India	How to avoid climate breakdown	May, 2019
Orphans in limbo	Making peace in a world at war	September, 2018
Our bodies, our rights	Making peace in a world at war	September, 2018
Toys from trash	Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent	December, 2017
Global babies: who benefits?	Populism rises again	April, 2017
Letter from Cochabamba	African village	January, 2017
British parents boycott school census	The coming war on China	December, 2016
'Everything is on my shoulders'	Love in the time of Ebola	June, 2016
Crocodile tears and con tricks	Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West	March, 2016
Rushing towards death	Syria’s good guys - Inside a forgotten revolution	September, 2015
Don't write in the profit margins	Global banking now	May, 2015
Growing upside down	Total control - is Monsanto unstoppable?	April, 2015
Migrant families ripped apart	Democracy in the digital era	January, 2015
The unwelcome return of development pornography	NGOs - Do they help?	December, 2014
Is surrogacy a legitimate way out of poverty?	Big oil RIP?	November, 2014
Weed-killing breast milk?	The politics of language loss	June, 2014
The end of the line	Fracking - the gathering storm	December, 2013
'Everybody preferred children'	Time to rethink disability	November, 2013
Keeping Prerna	Where have all the girls gone?	October, 2013
Only the best... it has to be a boy	Where have all the girls gone?	October, 2013
Argument: Should 16-year-olds get the vote?	How the war on pirates became big business	September, 2013
A toilet makes a difference	How the war on pirates became big business	September, 2013
Why can’t the 1% play nicely?	Demolition job	April, 2013
Letter from Botswana: 'There's a good side to this HIV'	Protection racket	June, 2012

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Surrogacy has become an international trade that needs tighter regulation, argues Miranda Davies.

Working children have more pressing concerns than the law, discovers Amy Booth.

Parents have boycotted a school census to protect against administrators being ‘turned into border guards’ by the government, Amy Hall writes.

Serah Tomba went from being a student to sole carer of seven orphans.

Fiona Broom reports from Nepal on the scandal of the ‘orphanage industry’.

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.

Children should be allowed to be children, not taught to 'turn over a profit', argues Steve Parry.

For thousands of Peruvian children, daily life means working to help feed the family. Fernando Del Berro meets one of them.

Sophie Cousins on Lebanon's decision to send home the children of migrant workers.

John Hilary on a degrading spectacle that keeps coming back.

Doctors Nayna Patel and Mohan Rao go head to head.

Indian railway stations are a magnet for impoverished children looking for a better future. What usually awaits them is abuse and exploitation. Terina Keene on an initiative helping them find a way out.

Combating child prostitution in Brazil is more urgent than ever – especially with the expected influx of foreign tourists for the 2014 World Cup, writes Olivia Crellin.

Daily wage-earner Kajri is defying her husband to save her daughter. She confided in Ankita Balloh.

Rajashri Dasgupta explodes a few myths about educated middle-class women in India.

Politics academic Andrew Mycock and UK Youth Parliament member Chanté Joseph go head-to-head.

Girls in Somalia now have a better chance of completing their education. Katharina Wecker explains.

The people who would have been labelled bullies in school are described as captains of industry in the adult world, says Steve Parry.

A new birth offers a sign of hope for Lauri Kubuitsile.

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