Bangladeshi twins nearly three years old, Trishna and Krishna, last Tuesday passed a 25-hour operation to be separated, foreign media reports. Conjoined twins joined at the top of the head traveled to Australia and passed a successful operation.
With the exception of South Africa, most African countries criminalise same-sex relationships with imprisonment, while incidents of violence against gay women and men are poorly investigated and rarely taken to court.
High school students in the Niger capital, Niamey, learned to put HIV/AIDS and reproductive health in a broader context during a recent essay contest.
US singer Madonna could have avoided all the trouble she went through while adopting a child from Malawi, if she had sought a Ugandan child instead. That is the verdict of High Court Deputy Registrar, Family Division, Batema Ndikabona.
Child rights advocates have said there is still room for expansion of the definition of 'children involved in armed conflict' and formalizing both preventive and protective measures to address the issue, twenty years following the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), 11 years following the Optional Protocol (OP) and two years consequent to the Paris Principles (PP).
Law enforcement agencies seat idly as CÅ"ur Joyeux steals money from hundreds of helpless orphans
The Child Protection Alliance in collaboration with ECPAT Netherlands on Thursday conducted a two day training workshop for stakeholders from the tourism sector at the Baobab Resort. The training is geared towards capacity building and sharing on interventions and policy issues, on tourism in the Gambia. Renowned trainers from ECPAT Netherlands served as the lead facilitators.
The top humanitarian official in Chad called for urgent attention to be paid to providing a better life for young men and women languishing in camps for refugees and displaced persons, warning that the alternatives for them would be prostitution or violence.
Today's story on the dangers of the hubbly bubbly is the start of an initiative between The Star and Lifetalk to raise awareness on the numerous challenges that affect teenagers today.
African Democracy and good Governance (ADG) in collaboration with Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF) on Thursday 19th November organized a programme for the commemoration of the World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Violence against children and the Convention on the Rights of the Child at their main office in Churchill's Town on the role of parents and adults in preventing abuse and ...
CRAIG* would rather have joined the British army, but is still happy with having served his two-year contract in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).
MBALE district leaders expressed shock and concern after the head of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) in Uganda revealed that the district had 3,300 child labourers.
THE alleged reluctance of the Central Methodist Church to facilitate the relocation of refugee children living in the institution has set the church against the Gauteng legislature.
THE 14-year-old girl who caused the death of a 40-year-old man who had attempted to defile her, has been released on Police bond after the intervention of the women lawyers' association, FIDA, and local council officials.
There are many indignities meted out to children in our educational institutions which bring untold hardship to them and their parents.
