CHILDREN AT RISK hosted a virtual roundtable with experts to discuss child-safeguarding under COVID-19 conditions, what policies and practices would further protect children, what we can learn from past disasters and public emergencies and how they affect children, and what you can do to keep children safer.
Watch the recording of the conversation.
The first contact I had with the concept of planting trees to compensate the emissions produced by air travel was at the first FAWCO Conference
I attended in Stockholm in 2003. Environment Committee Chair Valerie Garforth, had a chart with distances from various cities to Stockholm and the number of trees one needed to...
Female Mutilation: The truth behind the horrifying global practice of female genital mutilation - Author: Hilary Burrage Goodreads rating: 3.75 (8 ratings)
The numbers of girls and women affected around the world are staggering. Death is not an uncommon outcome. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is the partial or complete removal of the external female genitals for cultural rather than medical or religious reasons—its origin is...
An FGM survivor said the following: “I think we really need to change the face of FGM because it doesn’t just happen to people in Africa, it is everywhere… It’s easy to turn a blind eye and say it is not happening in this country (UK), in our community. But if people don’t think girls here are at risk, it...
According to the UN, at least 200 million girls and women have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) in 30 countries where the practice is concentrated. There has been some progress: in these countries, the prevalence of this harmful practice declined 25% between 2000 and 2018. Recently, the government of Sudan criminalized FGM, another step towards achieving better health...
NOTE: SARS-CoV-2 is the virus and COVID-19 is the disease caused by it.
A. Patients in China were initially presenting with an unusual pneumonia (characterized by a ground glass appearance on CAT scans) so it was initially thought to be a purely respiratory illness. Now it is known that...
Remember the days when you might have thought homeschooling was a concept only hippies or recluses could embrace? When you thought, “no way would I keep my kids home all day”? Does it seem like a long time ago that you thought, “I’m no educator, I’m just a parent”? For many...
