Rwanda has made progress in reducing multidimensional poverty among children, with a decline registered across multiple wellbeing dimensions over the last seven years, according to a new report.

I want to be a doctor so I can fix people. But my uncle says girls in our house don’t go to school for long. They get married.” These words from ...

An NGO has taken the South African government to court over a backlog of hundreds of thousands of applications for late birth ...

Looking at other child labour statistics, we found that the majority (90%) of working children were Africans; above 60% were ...

How are South Africa's harsh winter conditions exposing the vulnerabilities of the poor? Explore the devastating impact of ...

The G20 Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group, which meets on 9 and 10 July, needs to secure binding commitments to building ...

The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) operating as a single entity is a global research organization and has recently launched the second phase of the ...

U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss of the District of Columbia on July 2 blocked President Donald Trump’s order closing the ...

By 2050, the African continent will be home to nearly 40 percent of the worldʼs youth. With this demographic shift comes ...

A child as young as 10 becoming pregnant is not a number on a spreadsheet—it is a brutal failure of our systems to protect ...

Post-independence Africa plagued by corruption and economic collapseTribal divisions, not addressed post-colonialism, fueled ...

Child labor is a big concern across the world. It is particularly acute in countries in the global south, where it is ...