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Published in: Home: Feature‘What else can we cut out?’ Parents struggle with crippling childcare feesParents in England tell openDemocracy of remortgaging homes or taking on second jobs to pay for rising childcare fees
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Published in: Home: NewsKids skimping on meals to buy food for hungry friends, youth workers warnExclusive: Youth workers have spoken of ‘a failure of society’ as kids take on responsibility for feeding friends
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureThe volunteers risking their lives to secretly educate Afghanistan’s girlsNine months on from the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, teenage girls remain deprived of their right to education
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Published in: Home: NewsExclusive: More London children speak out about horrific police strip searchesYoung people and youth workers will picket a Hackney police station over the ‘state-sanctioned sexual assault’ of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFrom ‘Tickling Giants’ to making kids laugh: an interview with Bassem YoussefThe Egyptian comedian’s first book for young people tackles bullying, racism and discrimination among immigrant children.
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Published in: ourNHSThe government must act to end this child mental health crisisChildren have been particularly hard hit by mental health cuts, with 150 turned away from the care they need every...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSix things our next Prime Minister should do for children’s rightsToo many children are losing out at home, at school and in the criminal justice system. Addressing the problems...
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Published in: Frontline InsightsWhen child traffickers work across West Africa’s borders, activists need help to do the sameGuinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone share many things – including a problem of child trafficking. Local organisations...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKChildren’s rights being sidelined while nation focuses on BrexitBritain’s poorest children are increasingly subject to poor housing and dangerous policing tactics including Tasers...
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Published in: ourNHSWhy politicians need to 'take responsibility' for children's health tooThis government is betraying children on a grand scale, and making positive ‘choices’ impossible.
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Published in: TransformationHow children's books can transform the worldPolitical children's literature has always existed. Clementine Beauvais reads three children's stories about the...
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Published in: oDRRussia: a teenage suicide epidemic?Russia has the highest underage suicide rate in Europe. Yelena Vorobyova reports from the Bryansk region, where 10...
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Published in: oDRSuffer the little children…A new Russian law banning US adoptions has been roundly criticised at home and abroad; a toddler’s unexplained death...
