Enterovirus 71 infections were discovered in March in Fuyang, a city in Anhui province, but may have gone undetected for a while because the symptoms appeared to be ailments common in children, said Feng Lizhong, an official at the Anhui public health bur

Stop Child Executions strongly condemns the death penalty of Farzad Alizadeh and demand the authorities of Islamic Regime in Iran to halt the upcoming execution.

"We believe that working together Ivory Coast will make (the deadline) and that industry has a major, major role to play," NY Congressman Eliot Engel. Child labor on cocoa farms is HOT issue following heavily-publicised campaigns by some rights groups..

The recent decision by Intel to pull out of the 'One Laptop per Child' project is a serious blow to this worthy but flawed initiative. Company citing 'philosophical differences' has as much to do with hard-nosed business as with altruism,

We remind you of your commitment to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which states that "sentence of death shall not be imposed for crimes committed by persons below eighteen years of age".

Activists leave Australia to track down Japan's whaling fleet

The number of children staying with their mothers in Afghan prisons is extremely high, almost equal to the number of their mothers.

Killing their own children is against the law and the mam and dads should stop now is cause that is commiting murder which is not allowed at all

A jury is deliberating the fate of a Windham father accused of breaking 26 of his infant son's bones, then trying to cover up the abuse by lying to police and doctors.

BRUSSELS: A 21-year-old man with Down syndrome tied to a metal crib for 11 years. Children, naked from the waist down, left to eat and defecate in their beds. A 7-year-old girl with fluid in her brain left untreated "because she will die anyway." Thes