Program tackles child labor in Pakistan
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The ceaseless sound of tapping metal echoes through these muddy, garbage-strewn alleys where thousands of workers in crumbling brick hovels churn out one of Pakistan's most successful exports &#151; surgical instruments.
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A new, low-cost drug is launched to combat malaria, aimed at children in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Details of the government's plan to tackle vulnerable children before they are born are to be revealed.
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The United Nations Children&#39;s Fund released its annual report that showed that at least one billion children, half of the world&#39;s population of children, suffer from poverty, violent conflict and the scourge of AIDS.
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A desperately poor Pakistani man who  offered to sell his three children has been given a job on the  orders of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
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Assembly government ministers issue advice to childcare professionals on spotting child trafficking.
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Young people leaving care to be included in programmes offered by big businesses.
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A British newspaper reported Sunday that it found children as young as 10 making clothes in a sweatshop in New Delhi, India, that the Gap Inc. fashion chain planned to sell in the West.
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A high-end childrenâs clothing and toy store in Manhattan helps support the Childrenâs Aid Society, not only with money but also with job-training.
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The stateâs voluntary public preschool program, which 70 percent of 4-year-olds attend, is one of the most serious attempts to deal with economic inequality anywhere in the country.
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Global efforts to promote childhood immunization, breast-feeding and anti-malaria measures have helped cut by nearly a quarter the death rate of children under age 5 since 1990, UNICEF said on Wednesday.
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Children as young as eight years old are being treated for alcohol and substance abuse in Northern Ireland.
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The government must improve the way it supports victims of child trafficking, a children's charity says.
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The One Laptop Per Child organisation sets up a program to deliver laptops to the poorest US children.
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A thousand children may have been sold into slave labor in central China, enduring maiming and brutality in primitive brick kilns, state media has claimed amid an expanding scandal about official neglect.
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ISLAMABAD: Poverty affects around one billion children across the globe, the United Nations International Childrenâs Emergency Fund (UNICEF) revealed in its 2005 report on the state of the worldâs children.
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Dec. 30 -- In the frenzied hours after Benazir Bhutto's assassination, teachers, bus drivers and fruit vendors quickly gathered their teenage sons and traveled through the twisting, narrow alleyways of this old city to collect one item: tires.