Some Cambodian mothers have been selling their breast milk to women in the US, in a controversial practice that has now been banned. But the case has raised questions about whether these women have...
Cambodia officially banned selling and exporting locally-pumped human breast milk on Tuesday, after reports exposed how women were turning to the controversial trade to boost meagre incomes in one of...
Indonesian toddler Salsa Djafar was wearing a glittering golden crown decorated with ribbons and a shiny purple dress to mark a special occasion -- her circumcision day. At the celebrations attended...
The Ghana chapter of the World Organization for Early Childhood Development and Education Programme (OMEP) is calling on government to put in place policy directives to restrict persons trained to...
Gender Minister Otiko Djaba has urged school girls to be responsible in their appearances since an inappropriate choice of dress can invite troubles for them. According to him, even though short...
The US military is wrapping up operations against the Lord's Resistance Army in central Africa, even though its leader Joseph Kony is still at large, a top US general said Friday. "This thing is...
Vietnamese cops took three months to respond seriously to allegations that an eight-year-old girl had been molested, but then outrage spilled onto Facebook and they made an arrest in days -- a rare...
UNICEF on Wednesday condemned a company selling breast milk from "vulnerable and poor" Cambodian mothers to Americans, hitting out at the commercialisation of nutrients needed by babies inside the...
Cambodia has temporarily stopped an American company from exporting locally-pumped human breast milk, AFP has learned, after reports highlighted how some of the country's poorest women were...
Any man who impregnates a teenage girl in any basic school at Gnani, a community in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern Region, will be fined GHC250 while male teachers will pay GHC300. In...
Minister for Education, Hon. Matthew Opoku Prempeh says the government will build some 1,700 kindergartens throughout the country in order to fulfill their vision of ensuring vacancies for all 4 and...
The Amansie West district Education directorate has commenced a counseling session for parents in the area in order to curb a rising menace of child betrothing. Several parents, according to the...
Deciding if children are ready to be left home alone can be a tricky decision. Strange as it may seem, there is no set age for leaving children at home alone. According to the child and welfare...
A Girls/Gender Education Club for Teshie LEKMA 10 and 12 Basic schools have been launched to empower girls and help reduce sexual violence in schools. The event, organised by Reverend Mrs Hannah...
A man who posed as Justin Bieber online has been charged with more than 900 child sex-related crimes in Australia. The man, 42, masqueraded as the Canadian singer to gain explicit images from...
Henceforth, any parent in the Jirapa District who gives out his or her daughter who is less than 18 years for marriage would be reported to the security agencies for action to be taken against them....
Syrian children terrified by shelling and airstrikes are showing signs of severe emotional distress and could grow up to be a generation "lost to trauma," Save the Children warned Monday. Interviews...
Two child protection officers have been arrested for alleged links with a trafficking gang that ran illegal adoption centres in eastern India selling children to foreign couples, police said...
Rights groups on Tuesday criticised a controversial new child marriage law in Bangladesh which allows children as young as 14 to be married off by their parents. Parliament passed the Child Marriage...
Teachers are responsible for six percent of the 13,355 cases of teenage pregnancies in the Central region in 2016, a study has found. The 13,355 figure is a slight drop from the previous year's...
