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Strong Room
Game On or Guard Up? UNICEF Warns Parents: Video Games Can Build Brains or Break Boundaries Without Safeguards
In this comprehensive UNICEF feature, Professor Daniel Johnson of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child…
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Celebration of children
From “He May Never Read” to Rivalling Albert Einstein at 15: How One Autistic Child Proved That the Child Right to Development Unlocks Genius
The story of Jacob Barnett is more than a tale of extraordinary intelligence, it is a powerful testament to what…
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Celebration of children
Brains, Brilliance, and Belief: Detroit Third Grader’s Mensa Acceptance Shows What Children Can Become When Potential Is Nurtured
At just eight years old, Myles Dantzler has achieved something extraordinary. The Detroit third grader has been accepted into Mensa,…
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Humanitarian Crisis
UNICEF Warns of Stolen Childhoods: One in Three Ukrainian Children Still Displaced as War Follows Them Into a Fifth Year
Four years into the war in Ukraine, childhood itself has become a casualty. More than 2.5 million children, over one-third…
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Law and Policy
TeacherFIRE ignites as Teddy Bridgewater’s reaction to the Bill highlights safeguarding, student care, and purpose over personal credit in school sports
When Florida lawmakers moved compassion from debate to statute, the man whose name became shorthand for the issue made his…
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Child Protection
Schoolchildren as Targets: Should the St Mary’s Debate Focus on Ransom Payments or Safeguarding Failures?
The controversy over whether ransom was paid for the release of nearly 300 pupils and staff abducted from St Mary’s…
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Child Protection
Child Safety First: Why NAPTIP’s Review in the Wake of the Simi Backlash Matters for Child Safeguarding
What started as resurfaced tweets has grown into a national conversation about child safety, accountability, and the standards expected in…
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Humanitarian Crisis
“They Want Their Childhoods Back”: Did Jonathan Crickx Succeed in Shifting the Narrative in Gaza from Casualty Counts to the Best Interests of the Child?
In a powerful briefing in Geneva, UNICEF’s communications chief for Palestine shifted the focus from statistics to something far more…
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Child Sexual Abuse
Protecting a Child’s Future: Why This Child Deserves Anonymity
A 13-year-old girl is alive today because law enforcement reached her in time. The young person from Los Angeles County…
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Child Protection
AI Is Supercharging Violence Against Female children And the World Isn’t Ready, Warns UN Women
As artificial intelligence reshapes the digital world, child protection advocates are sounding the alarm: the same tools powering innovation are…
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