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Children’s drawings offer insights into the terror of Syria’s war

Hungary

Hungarian charities step in to feed needy children

Charities are sounding the alarm about child poverty in Hungary. More than four out of ten children aged seven and younger last year lived below the

World News

Children in jobs means even worse future, says ILO

Almost 170 million children are condemned to work full-time jobs today, with no schooling and poor future prospects. The International Labour

Pakistan

Save the Children Fund expelled from Pakistan

The doors to the Save the Children Fund offices have been locked in Pakistan and the charity’s work stopped. Police took the action in Islamabad

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World News

One child reported missing in Europe every two minutes

Events are being held around the world to raise awareness of young people who have disappeared. International Missing Children’s Day (25 May 2015)

My Europe Series

Towards a child-friendly judicial system in Europe

United Kingdom

British probe into child sex abuse reveals 1400 suspects

British police, investigating allegations of historic child sex abuse, say more than 14-hundred people have been named as suspects. They include

United Kingdom

UK: 1,400 people named as suspects in child sex abuse inquiry

British police, investigating allegations of historic child sex abuse, say more than 14-hundred people have been named as suspects

Spain

[Watch] Shocking images of child hidden in suitcase at Spanish border crossing

Two adults are accused of trying to smuggle a child into Spain inside a suitcase

Central African Republic

Rape of children by French forces in Central Africa 'will be punished' if proven

France has vowed to punish any of its soldiers if they are proven to have committed child rape in the Central African Republic. Fourteen French

Central African Republic

France probes claims of child sex abuse by its troops in Central African Republic

French authorities are investigating allegations of the sexual abuse of children by the country’s troops in the Central African Republic. It comes

Nepal

UNICEF's Kathmandu emergency stocks spread thin

Rafaële Tavernier, euronews: “Jean-Jacques Simon, head of UNICEF communication in South Asia, now in Kathmandu, we’re hearing about almost one

World

Dare to care: how teachers impact on the wellbeing of students

A teacher’s role in their students’ lives can be much more than educational. While they can be generally inspirational to young minds they can also

Brazil

Brazilian police in deadly drug shootouts draw fire from NGOs

A symbolic empty coffin buried at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for a boy named Eduardo, represents the latest child death in gunfire

Brazil

Brazil: Anger at Rio military police after boy dies in favela clashes

Hundreds of people protested in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, blaming Brazilian police for the death of a 10-year-old boy during clashes with locals in

Belgium

Row in Belgium over child killer's ex-wife sharing home with former judge

There is controversy in Belgium over news the ex-wife of a serial child killer is to move into the home of a former judge

Ukraine

Ukraine's war 'has harmed 1.7 million children'

Children in the Ukraine-controlled village of Chermalyk play war with sticks among the real war damage. To them, the so-called ‘bad guys’ are the

France

France rapped by Europe human rights body on child smacking

France has been criticised by Europe’s leading human rights body for failing to impose a clear ban on slapping children. The Council of Europe in

France

Council of Europe 'set to rebuke France' for failing to ban smacking

Europe's leading human rights watchdog is set to criticise France for its failure to explicitly ban smacking, according to press reports.

United Kingdom

Turkish CCTV images show British girls on their way to join ISIL

Security camera footage emerges of three British schoolgirls believed to have joined ISIL