Today is the 20th anniversary of UN’s Convention on Rights of the Child and various ceremonies are being held all over the world to mark the event. This Convention on Rights of the Child (CRC) was signed in 1989 and it endorses and guarantees basic right of all children to life, education, play and protection [...]

Most people cherish good memories of childhood and it is best phase in one’s life when mind is full of wonder. But realities are different for some troubled families where the children are ill treated and abused. Childhood is simply denied to these children and they grow up as individuals with deep scars. CAF onlus [...]

 
The campaign entitled “You can lose more than your patience” is a strong message about the devastation experienced by abused children. The visual of broken porcelain children says it all: children are as fragile as porcelain, and if they ‘break’ and ‘shatter’ under the cruelty of child abuse, their childhood and even their whole life are lost – [...]

A Saudi Arabian girl, 8, married to a 47 year old man by her father to clear off this debt was finally granted divorce. The plea for the divorce was rejected twice by the court in Saudi Arabia.
It was reported that the girl was not even aware of her marriage to this man, who was [...]

Here is an innovative and thought provoking campaign of Australian Childhood Foundation. Ongoing campaign on the streets of Melbourne depicts the reality of neglected children and abused childhood. The campaign ‘Stop Child Abuse Now’ is created by JWT agency.
For this campaign child sized mannequins hidden by wall posters were placed in different locations and busy [...]

In an eerie reminder of the way Josef Fritzl imprisoned his incest-born children in his cellar while he raped his own daughter Elizabeth, a 7 year old boy Dylan was found imprisoned in a windowless room in Millau, France. Dylan was imprisoned by his parents from the day he was born in what could be [...]

A child is said to be best safe in mother’s care.  But the sad and shocking death of Baby P in north London reveals the dark side of motherhood. This death of a toddler has forced child protection agencies, social workers and doctors to find the loop-holes in the system.
It is indeed shocking, Baby P [...]