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Weed smoking rises among US middle aged, seniors as teen use declines
Parents in the United States are now more likely to regularly smoke weed than their teenage children in an ironic role reversal, according to a National Survey on Drug Use and... More
child malnutrition costs Philippines $7billion in a year
Child malnutrition cost the Philippines $7 billion or nearly 3 percent of its GDP in one year in terms of education spending and lost productivity, while hunger-related stunting is... More
Japan exhibition puts child prostitution in the limelight
"At that moment, I understood what it means to feel like I'd rather die," wrote a young Japanese woman, recalling the trauma she suffered as a pre-teen, over having sex with a man... More
French children return to school under police guard after summer attacks
More than 12 million French children went back to school under heightened security on Thursday after a summer vacation marked by further deadly attacks in a country that is one of... More
Laser pointers can cause irreversible vision loss for kids
Used incorrectly, laser pointers can damage the retina of the eye and may cause some irreversible vision loss, according to researchers who treated four boys for these injuries.... More
Many factors influence parental decisions about throat surgery
Better communication from doctors may help parents struggling with the decision to have their child undergo throat surgery for sleep disordered-breathing conditions, a small study... More
In 10 countries with highest out-of-school rates, 40 per cent of children are not accessing basic education
In the top 10 countries with the highest rates of children missing out on primary education, nearly 2 in every 5 children – 18 million - are out of school, UNICEF said today. More
UNICEF: Collecting water is often a colossal waste of time for women and girls
UNICEF said the 200 million hours women and girls spend every day collecting water is a colossal waste of their valuable time. As World Water Week gets underway in Stockholm and... More
Children of Syria's besieged Daraya discover joy of sweets
Yazan, a four-year-old who has never known anything but deprivation, has finally discovered the joy of ice cream after being evacuated from the besieged town of Daraya near the... More
Nearly 9,000 refugee children reported missing: report
German media reported on Monday that the number of refugee children reported as missing has doubled to reach nearly 9,000. Figures from the Federal Criminal Police Office seen by... More
Poor Children Need a New Brown v. Board of Education
The California Supreme Court announced Aug. 22 that it would not hear Vergara v. California, a landmark case fighting for the educational rights of public-school students. The court... More
iPads as effective as sedatives for children before operations
New research presented at this year's World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA) in Hong Kong shows that allowing children to use iPads to distract them before surgery requiring... More
Risking it all to escape gang violence and poverty
Every month, thousands of children from Central America risk being kidnapped, trafficked, raped, or killed as they make their way to the United States to seek refuge from brutal... More
Boko Haram violence in Lake Chad region leaves children displaced and trapped
Years of violence by Boko Haram in Africa’s Lake Chad basin have led to a worsening humanitarian crisis that has displaced 1.4 million children and left at least one million still... More
