Patna citizens: Voices against Violence, abuse of Children

Patna citizens:  Voices against Violence, abuse of Children

An hour long citizen’s event has been organised near Patna’s historic Gandhi Maidan to highlight one important issue: Our institutions are unsafe places for children. In the light of the gruesome news reports of the murder and molestation of children in schools; the callous neglect of children in government hospitals leading to multiple deaths, and […]

1,317 child deaths in 8 months in BRDMC

1,317 child deaths in 8 months in BRDMC

Gorakhpur (UP): The spate of deaths continued in the state-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College hospital  with 13 more children dying in the past 24 hours, taking the toll to 1,317 so far this year. As many as 13 children, 10 in NICU and three in general paediatric ward died in the past 24 hours, […]

Worst Year for Syria’s Children : Unicef

Worst Year for Syria’s Children : Unicef

Beirut, Mar 13 : At least 652 children were killed in Syria in 2016, making it the worst year yet for the country’s rising generation, the United Nations’ child relief agency said. There was no letup to attacks on schools, hospitals, playgrounds, parks and homes last year as the Syrian government, its opponents and the […]

Why South Asians in UK don’t report child abuse

Why South Asians in UK don’t report child abuse

Why is Child Abuse, either physical or sexual, covered up by Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi migrants in the UK? A 2016 report by the Child Protection department of the UK government highlighted the extent of child sexual abuse. They found over 47,000 police records regarding sexual abuse between 2014 and 2015 the highest recorded in […]

Day for Missing Children

Day for Missing Children

Hey friends! Wednesday was for Missing Children.  This day is observed  all over the world on the 25th of May. The main motive of the day is to focus on children who have gone missing. On this day different countries do many things to find children who have disappeared. All people help on this day to find the cute little […]

True Education Should Nurture Values In Children !!!!!

True Education Should Nurture Values In Children !!!!!

Earlier, parents, acquaintances, and even the environment were the chief educators of children. The learners acquired the knowledge, ideas and beliefs of their own culture and tradition. Most importantly, they learnt values and that was education for them. The children of those days grew up to be responsible citizens. Nowadays, the concept of education has […]

No Kidding! ‘little directors’ launch on April 1

No Kidding!  ‘little directors’ launch on April 1

Bihar’s kids will get a shot at directing their own films, when Children’s Film Society India (CFSI) launches its countrywide campaign to bring the visual arts into schools. A series of filmmaking workshops for Bihar’s school kids will be started in several districts from April 1. CFSI Shravan Kumar, the society’s chief executive officer, announced […]

American ‘Sugar Daddy’ gets bitter pill in Calcutta

American ‘Sugar Daddy’ gets bitter pill in Calcutta

Calcutta : A suspected pedophile has been arrested and remanded to judicial custody, when a 14 year old boy complained of molestation. The sessions court on Saturday (Nov 28) remanded an American citizen in custody for 14 days over allegations he molested a teenaged boy in his hotel room, police said. The 51-year-old US national […]

‘Data can make positive difference in children’s life’

‘Data can make positive difference in children’s life’

The complexities of survey and census data on children were simplified in a special media workshop organised by UNICEF Bihar on Wednesday (Sept 30) in Hotel Patliputra Ashok. The workshop, titled Use of Data on Children for Children, provided an opportunity to media persons to strengthen their understanding on the different human and child development […]