Alarming proportions of child and youth suicide in KazakhstanSuicide, especially among children and adolescents, is an alarming problem for Kazakhstani officials. Together with UNICEF Kazakh pscyhiatrists conducted a study into the causes of youth suicide, and the prelimitary results may help address the problem.
What is wrong with Kazakhstani education?Serik Irsaliev of the MInistry of Education shared the findings of an international study that looked into the Kazakh education system.
Obama, Central American leaders meet on child migrantsPresident Barack Obama met Friday with three Central American leaders to try to get control of an humanitarian crisis triggered by a tide of child migrants crossing the southern US border.
India train hits school bus, at least 11 children deadA passenger train rammed into a school bus in southern India on Thursday killing at least 11 children, with fears the death toll could rise further, officials said.
24 July 2014
Four children, two adults killed in France minibus crashFour children, their driver and a 20-year-old were killed when the minibus they were travelling in crashed head-on into a truck coming the other way in France, authorities said.
23 July 2014
Inside Mexican shelter, a world of fear and abuseA nauseating smell of rotting food and excrement hangs in the air inside the Mexican shelter where authorities say hundreds of children lived in squalor and endured physical and sexual abuse.
19 July 2014
Honduras calls for curbing crime to fight child migrationHonduras called for international efforts to fight organized crime to deter minors from leaving Central America to illegally enter the United States, where rights officials warned youths can face abuse.