Society / Children

Their slaughter has marked a new era of horror by a junta notorious for its cruelty. Maung Moe reports on three young lives cut short on the deadliest day of violence since the coup.

Schoolchildren fall through the digital divide.

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.

Update from Australia by Amy Hall.

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

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.