Australian doctors call for ban on smacking kids
Australian doctors Friday called for the smacking of children by parents to be made illegal, saying it was too easy to blur the line between reasonable discipline and abuse.
Most people in Kazakhstan want three kids: poll
A survey by Headhunter shows that 64% of childless respondents are planing to have three or more kids.
British PM ups pressure on Internet firms over child porn
British Prime Minister David Cameron will on Monday demand Internet search engines take action to block queries about child sex abuse, threatening legislation if they fail to comply.
U.S. reply to Kazakhstan about children at Ranch for Kids
The U.S. Embassy to Kazakhstan says that there are no Kazakhstan-born children at the Ranch for Kids at present.
Russian Children's Rights Envoy calls Kazakhstan to ban foreign adoption
Russian Children's Rights Envoy Pavel Astakhov believes that countries should ban foreign adoption altogether.
Russia passes information on Kazakhstan-born children at Ranch for Kids
Russian Children's Rights Envoy has passed information on Kazakhstan-born children at U.S. Ranch for Kids to Kazakhstan Justice Minister.
20 children dead from school meal in India: official
Twenty children have died after eating a free lunch at a primary school in eastern India, with initial tests showing the food may have contained poisonous chemicals.
UN envoy in Syria talks as child toll mounts
The UN's special envoy on children in war was in Syria for talks as concern mounted over the rising child death toll in the bloody two-year conflict.
Russia to provide list of Kazakhstan-born children at U.S. Ranch for Kids
Russian Children's Rights Envoy Pavel Astakhov will visit Astana and provide Kazakhstan with a list of children from Kazakhstan kept at American Ranch for Kids.
Children's football academy opens in Almaty
FC Kairat opened the Children's Football Academy in Almaty on July 1.
US online child privacy rules set to get stricter
Toughened US regulations on online privacy for children take effect Monday, offering new protections amid the growing use of mobile apps and social networks by youngsters.
Gene clues show which children will grow out of asthma
A gene scorecard may one day help predict which youngsters are likely to grow out of childhood asthma and which will have the disease in adulthood.
Kazakhstan allocates 600 quotas for IVF in 2013
600 quotas for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) were allocated for 350 thousand infertile families in Kazakhstan in 2013.
Kazakhstan-born adopted children leave American Ranch for Kids
Only two children from Kazakhstan have ever lived at the Ranch for Kids in Montana, U.S. and both of them have gone back to their parents: Executive Director.
Let children drive, Kazakhstan Interior Minister says
Kazakhstan children will be officially allowed to drive vehicles.
Vienna watches Zhauzhurek Myn Bala and Shal
The second annual Kazakhstan Film Days are taking place in Burgkino cinema in Vienna, Austria on 18 to 21 June 2013.
US study links pollution to autism risk
Pregnant women who were exposed to high levels of air pollution were twice as likely to have a child with autism as women who lived in low pollution areas.
US program marks birth of one millionth HIV-free baby
This month somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa the one millionth baby will be born without HIV to a mother who suffers from the disease, thanks in large part to a decade-old US aid program.
Children 'left behind' in China's rush to the cities
Six-year-old Keke looks silently from a bare living room at her closest companion: a grandmother who resents having to raise her.
Ten million children work as domestic servants: ILO
As many as 10.5 million children worldwide work as domestic servants, in what can be hazardous and even slave-like conditions.