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The school route to healthier eating
Offering nutritious meals to students can improve diets and counter obesity across Europe.
By Ali Jones
When the lunch bell rings at the Sancta Maria primary school...
Troubled year in store for the world’s children: UNICEF report
Globally in 2024, children are likely to see increased exposure to violence and war, and economic hardship, says the UN children’s agency (UNICEF), in...
‘Ten weeks of hell’ for children in Gaza: UNICEF
Gaza is by far the most dangerous place in the world to be a child and deaths of youngsters from disease will likely surpass...
UK urged to tackle childhood hunger
The COVID-19 pandemic led to the greatest disruption to education in history, affecting 1.6 billion children and young people. At the peak of the...
200,000 children at risk of starvation in Mali
A nexus of protracted armed conflict, internal displacement and limited humanitarian access threatens to plunge nearly one million children under the age of five...
Pakistan: Stolen Hindu and Christian Children
Almost weekly, news regarding Hindu and Christian children being kidnapped and abused by Muslim men emerge from Pakistan. Once abducted, these girls are forcefully...
Ratification of the Declaration of the Rights of the Indonesian Child as an Implementation of Cosmopolitanism
Child problems add to the row of issues that must be prioritized to be addressed immediately. The state is the actor most responsible for...
Baby foods take centre stage in push for more safety and quality
By DANIELA DE LORENZO
If we are what we eat, as the saying goes, food quality is key to our health. And as food production and...
A child died every 4.4 seconds in 2021
A child or young person died every 4.4 seconds in 2021, and millions more could lose their lives by 2030 unless all women and...
Racism and discrimination against children rife in countries worldwide
Racism and discrimination against children based on their ethnicity, language and religion, are rife in countries across the world, according to a new report...