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This article examines the ethics of forcing women to take birth control by sharing experiences of women who are part of the Pause program.
Dozens of children are seeking a judicial review in the UK High Court early next year.
In this New York Times opinion piece, Kristof discusses one family’s story about the abuses they experienced while living in Honduras. His article highlights the dangers families are facing in Central America. He discusses how President Obama’s deportation policies are forcing families to stay in countries where their lives are at risk, and he argues that U.S. policies need to change in order to provide a safe haven for children and families at risk.
Council of Europe Secretary General Jagland sent a letter to Heads of Government of all 47 states of the Council of Europe to urge them to better ensure the safety and proper treatment of asylum-seeking and refugee children entering Europe. He also outlined a list of priority measures.
This action comes after an estimated 300,000 children arrived in Europe last year, many of whom were unaccompanied. It is estimated that one in three of the migrants and asylum seekers crossing between Greece and Turkey is a child. According to Europol, at least 10,000 children have…
Children’s ombudsmen from 33 countries sent a letter to the European Union urging the European Union and Council of Europe to act to protect child asylum seekers in Europe, who are a very vulnerable group. The European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC) has warned in the past that child asylum seekers traveling through Europe experience violence, trafficking, truama, poor health and death. ENOC established a taskforce to monitor the situation of these children. ENOC suggests that children should be given priority in the implementation of redistribution plans and…
The New Jersey Supreme Court announced that it will hear the case of a New Jersey indigent mother who lacked an attorney when when a judge ordered her 2-year-old daughter taken from her custody and placed with a “financially advantaged” foster family.
The case will address whether some New Jersey parents are "too poor" to care for their children, whether they have a constitutional right to an attorney when their custody is being challenged in court, and whether the indigent mother should be allowed to visit her daughter even without custody. The Supreme Court …
The State of the World’s Fathers 2015 Report was launched at an event at the UN Headquarters in New York on 16 June, 2015. The event brought together several speakers and panelists, including Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation, who delivered the opening remarks, and Kate Gilmore, Deputy Executive Director of UNFPA, who delivered the keynote address (filling in for Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA, who was unable to attend).
The event focused on the role of men in caregiving and how an increase in men’s involvement in caretaking is crucial to achieving…
Chelsea Clinton, who led the opening remarks at the unveiling of the inaugural State of the World’s Fathers report at the UN earlier today, called for all countries across the globe, including the United States, to ensure paid paternity leave for mothers and fathers.
“We know that having more opportunities for fathers to be engaged is not only good for fathers and their children, but good for our economies’, says Chelsea, “And yet, it’s not only a shift in mindsets that has enabled this to happen, it’s also a shift in policies and practices. One of those policies and practices that this…
In this article, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee discusses the critical brain development that happens in the first year of a baby’s life, and the impact that growing up in poverty has on that cognitive development. Researchers in Philadelphia, USA studied the environments of children living in poverty and found that children who received more attention and nurturing in infancy tended to have higher IQ scores and that children who received more cognitive stimulation tended to perform better on language tasks. Furthermore, the researchers studied these children at the age of four, eight, and as…
In light of the world’s largest Ebola epidemic, the Faith to Action Initiative has released an article on its website advising its partners on how to respond to this epidemic and its effects on children’s care. The Ebola epidemic, says the article, has claimed the lives of 5,000 people to date – leading to great numbers of parental loss among children, especially in the region of Western Africa. The article references a UNICEF report which states that 3,700 children in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone have lost one or both parents to Ebola since the epidemic began. “These numbers,” says the…