Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Eleonore Meyer IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) – Nearly 160 million kids aged between five and fourteen are trapped in child labour world wide. They are everywhere but invisible, toiling as domestic servants in homes, labouring behind the walls of workshops, hidden from view in plantations, handling chemicals [...]
ECUADOR: All-Out Offensive Against Child Malnutrition
August 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Aug 12, 2010 (IPS) – The Ecuadorean government aims over the next five years to eradicate chronic malnutrition among children under one — 10 percent of whom are now undernourished — and reduce the rate among children under five from the current 22 percent [...]
SOUTH AFRICA: "Children are Dying Needlessly"
August 11, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kristin Palitza CAPE TOWN, Aug 11, 2010 (IPS) – By the time Thandi Khumalo* brought her seven-month-old daughter to the Red Cross Children’s hospital in Cape Town, help came too late. The infant had developed acute diarrhoea and Kwashiokor, a condition caused by severe protein and calorie [...]
MALAWI: Vaccination Foiled by Divine Intervention
August 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE, Aug 6, 2010 (IPS) – Dowa, central Malawi: medical staff struggle to vaccinate frightened children clinging to their parents, as an armed policeman stands guard. Police earlier rounded up the families from Chitanje village and marched them to the Chankhungu clinic a few kilometres [...]
Mexican Govt Turns a Blind Eye to Orphaned and Disabled Children
July 23, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Daniela Pastrana MEXICO CITY, Jul 23, 2010 (IPS) – A baby hits the floor when his father, who was holding him in his arms, is murdered in Mexico. A two-year-old watches from her stroller as six drug addicts are killed in a rehabilitation centre, including her mother. [...]
Children Suffer Most from Forced Return to Kosovo
July 19, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Thomas Hammarberg* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint STRASBOURG (IDN) – Several thousand persons have been forcibly returned to Kosovo by west European states in the last few years, mainly from Austria, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. Among the returnees have been persons belonging to minorities, and in particular Roma, Ashkali and [...]
SOUTH AFRICA: Trauma of Children Caring for HIV-Positive Parents
July 17, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Laure Pichegru JOHANNESBURG, Jul 16, 2010 (IPS) – Nine-year-old Nomasonto* had no choice but to switch roles with her mother and care for the HIV-positive woman who gave birth to her. Instead of worrying about homework and going out to play with her friends, Nomasonto’s daily concerns [...]
RIGHTS-BURMA: Youngsters, Families Evade Recruitment into Armies
July 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mon Mon Myat RANGOON, Jul 15, 2010 (IPS) – They are novices at a Buddhist monastery just outside Rangoon, but they are also young boys who will always find time for a friendly game of football. This day is no different, and visitors find them wearing sarongs [...]
HEALTH-PAKISTAN: Children’s Cancer A Hidden Crisis
July 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Pakistan, Jul 9, 2010 (IPS) – Her husband works as a nurse in one of Pakistan’s most prestigious private hospitals, but when their two-year-old daughter Mary was diagnosed with leukaemia, Sadaf John could only be thankful that the Children’s Cancer Hospital (CCH) existed in [...]
CENTRAL AMERICA: Rampant Violence Means Childhood Interrupted
July 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Jul 6, 2010 (IPS) – Very early one recent morning in the eastern Guatemalan municipality of Esquipulas, the residents slept soundly — until heart-rending screams from the street broke the calm. It was José Gómez Ramírez, 12, and he was pleading for his [...]
