Reports

Remote school is leaving children sad and angry

Her mother and sister rush in and ask what went wrong. Did the Internet go out again? Is her computer plugged in? Is the math too confusing? Sophia can’t really answer. …

Reports

What to Do About the Children of the Islamic State

In October, a 16-year-old boy in Russia was fatally shot after he wounded a policeman while trying to set several police cars on fire. It wasn’t his family’s first brush with the law. …

News

Afghanistan war: 26,000 Afghan children killed or maimed since 2005

An average of five children have been killed or wounded every day for the past 14 years in war-torn Afghanistan, a charity has found….

News

Humanitarian Action for Children in Iraq

The humanitarian crisis in Iraq stems primarily from the 2014–2017 conflict, which led to the displacement of 6 million people. There has been a steady stream of returnees….

Stories

Mona Lisa of Mosul, Two photos telling two painful stories!

Three years separate two photos taken by the Iraqi photographer Ali Alfahdawi of an Iraqi child named Saba. The first photo was taken in March 2016 and the other at the beginning of 2020. …

in depth

Buying a baby on Nairobi’s black market

Somewhere, Rebecca’s son is 10. He could be in Nairobi, where she lives, or he could be somewhere else. He could, she knows in her heart, be dead. The last time she saw him,…