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  The “Levels and Trends in Child Mortality” report was released recently by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estim...

  Does the doctrine of religious freedom extend to binding commitments made by or for children, especially when those commitments may contra...

  The health of a society can be gauged by the condition of its children. The National Crime Records Bureau report on crimes against childre...

  Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta writes: Legislation, education and government action must be used together to help families keep teenage girls in s...

  The recently released National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 5 data raise serious concerns about India’s growth story. Behind the glitter of...

Children and the pandemic Disruption in health services, suspension of mid-day meals, use of ASHA workers for COVID-related activities c...

India tops list on reported child sexual abuse imagery New research has placed India at the top of the list of countries from where the ...

How helicopter parenting is limiting the development of children The mere mention of the term ‘helicopter parenting’ is enough to spark ...

Child rights body, IIT Kanpur develop kit to spread sexual-abuse awareness The kit is a set of cards, posters, short animation clips and...

Bengal has most child marriages If you thought the Bimaru states topped in child marriages, think again. West Bengal now has the highest...

K’taka LS seats worse than Bihar’s in child nutrition  Karnataka has more parliamentary constituencies than Bihar and Odisha put togethe...

South Asia is a dangerous place to be born In 2018, one million newborn babies died before they reached one month of age. My wish for 20...

Children must have a voice in the kind of city they want A child-friendly city would have to protect them from violence, allow them to g...

Fight the good fight for our children The saying in the Hindi belt – The poor have to suffer in every circumstance – was ringing in my h...

The children left behind UNESCO report highlights the gaps in education policy for children of migrants. People move around India all...

Sustained efforts must to reduce India’s infant mortality below 25 by 2030 It would require better institutional delivery, strengthening...

The law must find ways to deal with online abuse of children Given the nature of the menace, only a collective effort of all stakeholder...