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"Child Abuse - down, down!" Indian schoolchildren chant to protect their peers from sexual exploitation on the Bharat Yatra marching throughout India.
Filming in Kenya in late 2012 we interacted with hundreds of children; at their schools, in their homes and as we crisscrossed the country in our production van. The filming had gone on for weeks and it was depressing to see these bedraggled babies, with their rags and obvious malnutrition. We wished a major charity was in the van, handing out food aid and clean water but we settled on lollipops, thousands and thousands of lollipops.
We'd see a group of children by the side of the road and stop and prepare for a lollipop moment, a way of giving love with no strings attached.
U.R. (Robin) Romano (1956-2013) had a rare gift of being able to reveal a child's spirit in his photography. These are some of his best shots, capturing children from around the world.
Packed in “like razorblades”, children picked up on suspicion of involvement with Boko Haram are detained indefinitely in Giwa military barracks in Nigeria.
Children accused of affiliation with ISIS are being detained, and often tortured and prosecuted, regardless of their actual level of involvement with the group. This sweeping, punitive approach is not justice, and will create lifelong negative consequences for many of these children.
UK NGO War Child has released a subtle and marvelous film about the fantasy world of children trapped in wartime.
Each day in India, 180 children go missing, stolen and trafficked into child labor. Two out of three of them will never be found.
In rural Uttar Pradesh, one woman challenges men to cover their faces with veils and then successfully execute their work.
According to official figures, over 100,000 women and 50,000 children remain untraced across India. Rupa Devi and her two daughters are one of the latest missing person cases dismissed by local police.
Naresh Biswas, a community activist, has been working tirelessly with the Baigas of Baigachak for over two decades and has persuaded 700 families to return to their traditional farming and food cultures.
A new Gallup survey reveals that 1 in 4 Indians fears losing their land or home. A beautiful film by the Place Project explores the meaning of home for indigenous and urban poor people and makes the argument for strengthening land rights of the poor.
Women farmers offer a way to rethink our current food production system, which is heavily polluting and over-reliant on fossil fuels.
The ABCs of Child Labor...15 products touched by child labor and child slavery. How many do you use?
Former child laborers are raised and educated to be activists against child labor at Bal Ashram, the children’s home established by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi and his wife, Sumedha.