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Current Feed ContentGirlhood: A Perilous PathIn the developing world today, foetal sex determination hasmade it possible for expecting mothers to know the sex of their unborn child.This makes it even more exciting for a young mother. She might start planningand buying clothes for her unborn baby, thanks to the test. However, in some countries like the Asiaand Africa,this test confirming the sex of the female unborn child might prove to be anightmare. Firstly, if she isn’t aborted her birth isn’t greeted withenthusiasm, but with a damp...Child Sexual AbuseA WORRISOMESOCIAL AND HEALTH EMERGENCY Mark Twainhas advised us to concentrate on the future, because that is where we are goingto spend the rest of our lives. A cursory look at the newspapers in recent timesshow captions such as ‘5 rape cases land before Mbake,, ‘Defilement CaseHeard,’ ‘8year old raped,’ ‘Paedophile, Accomplice Charged,’ ‘Attempted RapistCharged,’ ‘Oustass Dragged to Court for Attempted Rape,’ and ‘Man in Court forRape.’ Reading these chilling stories or looking into the...THAILAND: Sustainable approach to tackle coastal erosionBANGKOK Thursday, August 07, 2008 (IRIN) - Panya Changcharoen still remembers when he was a child and the Bang Khunthian District stone, marking the edge of Bangkok, was in a lush mangrove forest. Now, at 60, he finds it hard to believe the shore has eroded so much that the marker lies stranded far out in the muddy sea. "All the mangrove forests are gone and coastal erosion keeps getting worse, especially during the monsoon season," Panya told IRIN. "I'm not sure how long my family and I can...MYANMAR: Temporary shelters need permanent upgradeMHAWBI Monday, October 20, 2008 (IRIN) - Five months after Cyclone Nargis deluged Myanmar's low-lying Ayeyarwady Delta, tens of thousands of people are still in need of proper shelter. Myint Aung, 35, lost a child and everything he owned to the category four cyclone, which caused the worst natural disaster in living memory. With no money to rebuild, the landless farmer has ended up squatting by the roadside outside Mhawbi village, 10 minutes from Pyapon town, on the Pyapon River, with...KYRGYZSTAN: Rare case of child-to-mother HIV transmissionYANGI-NOOKAT Thursday, August 28, 2008 (IRIN) - The story of how Nasiba, 32, and her 2-year-old son, Akram, both became infected with HIV is not the familiar one of an unfaithful husband and a mother unwittingly infecting her child. Nasiba and Akram live in Yangi-Nookat village, in southwestern Kyrgyzstan's Nookat District, where most people support themselves by small-scale farming and unemployment is so high that many have left for Russia and other countries in search of jobs. Akram was...BANGLADESH: Children and women suffer severe malnutritionDHAKA Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (IRIN) - Bangladesh has one of the highest rates of child and maternal malnutrition in the world, say health experts. According to the State of the World's Children (SOWC) Report 2008, issued by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), eight million or 48 percent of all children under-five are underweight. [See: http://www.unicef.org/sowc08/] Millions of children and women suffer from one or more forms of malnutrition, including low birth weight, stunting,...Dembo Nursery School to Bolster Child EducationSir Dembo Nursery School (SDNS), based in Bundung Borehole,is changing the lives of many children in the area who would have found it verydifficult to receive such kindergarten education that will take them to anotherlevel in their educational ladder. The school, established on 28thof September 2007 with a handful of pupils,presently has enrolment strength of 36 children - 13 girls and 23 boys – who arereceiving sound basic education. The school, according to the founder and head teacher,...Co- Wife Pour Hot Water On 3-Week Old ChildHighlyplaced sources informed The Point that one Tida Sawo of Jamburr village hadbeen arrested and currently helping the police in their investigation forallegedly pouring hot water on a three-week old baby, Alasana Sarjo.Theincident took place last Saturday. Accordingto our sources, Tida Sawo, who is the first wife of one Malick Sarjo of Jamburr, Kombo South, Western Region, poured hot water on the baby, who is the son ofthe second wife, Jaidi Manneh also from the same village. “Tida Sawois...Interior Secretary Presides Over the 2008 2nd Children’s BantabaThe Secretary of State for Interior, the honorable Ousman Sonko, on last Friday presided over the 2nd 2008 children’s Bantaba of the Voice of The Young, a child advocacy group under the Child Protection Alliance. The Children’s Bantaba is a one-day gathering that aims to bring children and adults together to discuss issues relating to child rights and child protection. The theme of the August Bantaba is “ Strengthening the Protective Environment for Children in The Gambia: “Systems and...Lovelines: We had a child who passed awayLovelines I am a young man of 22 years dating a girlof 20. In a 5-year relation, we wereblessed with a child. Unfortunately, the child passed away barely after onemonth. Since the death of our child, which is less than one month, she has beenpressurising me to impregnate her. I totally disagree with her on thisdecision. My girl has changed because I do not accept her decision. She is nowdating a man that she once introduced tome as a friend when she was 3 months pregnant. I want to leave her…... |
