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 ...

Torrential rain, severe winds and landslides have killed at least 49 people in the poverty-stricken Eastern Cape province of ...

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

A study in The Lancet suggests that cuts to USAID could result in the death of 14 million people over the next five years.

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And almost half the municipalities (24 out of 52) have inadequate service delivery for children in nine or more sub-domains.

Ahead of the G20 meeting in South Africa in November, civil society groups have highlighted how school meals as one of the most effective investments in breaking the cycle of poverty.

Nigeria’s economy grew but poverty worsened, especially in the rural areas. The country needs a radical shift in its economic ...

They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing ...

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 ...