Living in Hell

Residents of Peera Garhi, a village in outer Delhi, are having to deal with a nightmare. A highly polluting plastics industry is to blame

Now a papaya-clay filter

The hybrid clay filter could be the cost-effective answer to water purification

On a weak limb

GAMBIA

Stop kidding

Europe sidelines children's well-being at a mega health meet

Ending child marriage, beyond slogans

Nirmala Sitharaman's Union Budget 2020-21 speech proposed a task force to review minimum age of marriage for women; child marriage is widely …

Will India get freedom from open defecation?

Skyrocketing numbers on government websites project a doubtful picture of what has been achieved in one year. Read our Independence Day special

Children worst hit by Nepal earthquake

According to UNICEF, at least 94,000 children are currently living in areas severely affected by the earthquake

Americans want low-cost, quality health care

Hillary Rodham Clinton, head of the US President's task force on health, has a tough task ahead in providing Americans with low-cost, quality …

For a few dollars more

Developing countries immunised 80 per cent of their children by 1990 and saved millions of lives. But 35,000 children, under five years of age, …

Coma after death

Child victims of a frayed medical service and a government programme gone wrong raise a mute question

Drought-hit state

BEARING THE BRUNT·28 min· English·Conceptualised by: Mahesh Bhatt·Directed by: Ajay Kanchan·Produced by: Save …

Dussehri's entrepreneurs

Village women emerge as successful entrepreneurs thanks to NEED an organisation with a difference

The ideal gap

A two-and-a-half-year gap is ideal between births for the health of the babies

Sucking in toxics

Presence of pollutants such as PCBs in mothers' milk and blood restrains children's growth

News Snippets

A headmaster and his students save a forest

WHO releases policy recommendations to protect children from harmful effects of food marketing

Food marketing involves the use of numerous persuasive techniques to influence children's food attitudes, preferences & consumption  

How COVID-19 is exposing children to traffickers

School closure due to COVID-19 has not only precluded many from access to education, but also from a source of shelter and nourishment

MP elections: Half glass empty for children in manifestos

Here’s an analysis on how inclusive BJP and Congress are about matters concerning citizens who are supposed to be mature voters once they …

Back to toilet school

On August 15, the government announced it had achieved the target of building toilets in all schools in India. But are these toilets functional?

Fighting for survival

Shrinking habitat due to deforestation has forced elephants to enter human territory in Orissa's Keonjhar district

Ethiopia’s flagship health project considers behavioural change, prevention to address NCDs among women, children

Africa CDC eager to extract lessons from the project and extend them to other AU member states  

Childhood cancers

Chemical banned