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 ...

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 ...

Wachira holds a Master of Laws (LLM) in International Human Rights and has a track record in advancing women’s rights, having ...

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

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 ...

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

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

More than 1.6m South African children are enrolled in early childhood development centres, their development resting in the hands of women who perform small miracles every month to keep these sites ...

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