Tag: children
The health and future of the world’s children are at risk...
“This must be a wake up call for countries to invest in child health and development, ensure their voices are heard, protect their rights, and build a future that is fit for children.”
How to raise climate-resilient kids
In the face of climate change, children need positive stress as well as compassion to maintain mental health and inform their responses.
Finland to significantly increase parental leave
“The model guarantees the child a place at the center of family benefits and promotes well-being and gender equality.”
Dangerous levels of plastic found in children’s bodies finds new study
"It can't be that every fourth child between three and five years old is so heavily burdened with chemicals that long-term damage cannot safely be ruled out."
The NRA versus American children
Children and teens in the United States experience much higher rates of gun deaths and injuries than in any other industrialized country.
When will we start applying the precautionary principle to the chemicals...
Agencies consistently place a far higher value on corporate profits than they do on the children of the world.
Parenting the climate-change generation
I’m going to heed their leadership. I plan to join them, to learn and listen, to do my best to share my still unarticulatable fears and, with my children, to face this future together.
‘Shocking’ report reveals thousands of migrant children have been sexually abused...
"This is not normal! Why would any member of Congress or person of conscience support increasing funds and enabling this agency?"
The soaring cost of US child care, in 5 charts
This spike in costs has broad implications, including leading fewer families to have children.
Give children the vote, strengthen democracy
Facilitating such participation would not only encourage broader social responsibility among young people, it would enrich and strengthen democracy itself.
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US diplomacy thwarts Palestinian UN membership amid claims of supporting statehood leaked cable shows
This diplomatic maneuvering seeks to avoid a U.S. veto, which would publicly align the country against Palestinian self-determination.
Supreme Court questions use of obstruction law in Jan. 6 riot cases amid concerns...
This law is now at the center of a legal battle concerning its suitability for punishing those who stormed the Capitol during the certification of the 2020 election results.
Supreme silence: High court decision curtails protest rights, stifling voices in the South
As the case now returns to lower courts for further proceedings, the national discourse on the limits of free speech and the right to protest continues to evolve.
The Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act and the battle against government spying
The FANFSA, passed with a 219-199 vote, garnered support from both sides of the aisle, with 96 Democrats and 123 Republicans backing the bill.
New report reveals millionaires’ tax rates slashed by half since 1950s, fueling wealth inequality
This stark reduction in tax rates for the wealthiest Americans coincides with an era of escalating income disparity and could be costing the federal government hundreds of billions in lost revenue annually.