TWO-THIRDS of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities having no access to education points to the neglect and systemic barriers that the children continue to face. A survey report, made public on July 29, also finds that four-fifths of adults with neurodevelopmental disabilities remain excluded from employment opportunities. The study, conducted in July 2023鈥揓uly...
ISRAELIS do not see the images of skeletal corpses of Palestinian children who they have starved to death as a curse. They do not see the slain families they gun down at food hubs 鈥� designed not to deliver aid but lure starving Palestinians into a massive concentration camp in the south of Gaza in preparation for deportation 鈥� as a war crime. Israelis do not look at...
A daylong art camp titled 鈥楶atar Chhabi鈥� was organised in Barishal on Saturday, which featured artworks of 50 students of Paschim Rajiher Government Primary School at Agailjhara upazila in the district...
Four children, including two minor cousins, drowned in separate incidents in Narsingdi and Noakhali on Sunday...
A NATION that maims, kills and starves men, women and children is unlikely to survive. Also, leaders of nations who have aided in those atrocities will likely face the same fate...
More than 600 malnourished children have died in northern Nigeria in six months after failing to receive proper care as foreign aid dries up, a medical charity has said.
Doctors Without Borders charity said Friday that a quarter of all young children and pregnant or breastfeeding women screened at its clinics in Gaza last week were malnourished, blaming Israel鈥檚 鈥榩olicy of starvation鈥�.
The education ministry on Thursday published the college admission guidelines for the current academic year, dropping quota for the grandchildren of the freedom fighters...
WE HAVE all seen children dress up as their heroes or pretend to be doctors, teachers, or other professionals during playtime. What seems like simple fun is actually something far more significant. It is how children make sense of their world, acting out experiences, ideas, or stories. Imagination, which lies at the heart of children鈥檚 role play, is even more vital than simply acquiring knowledge...
The head of Gaza鈥檚 largest hospital on Tuesday said 21 children have died due to malnutrition and starvation in the Palestinian territory in the past three days, while Israel pressed a devastating assault...
When it comes to AI, many parents navigate between fear of the unknown and fear of their children missing out...
Desperate guardians on Tuesday continued to search for their children missing after a Bangladesh Air Force jet crashed into a building of Milestone School and College in Uttara, Dhaka on Monday.
As malnutrition surges in war-torn Gaza, tens of thousands of children and women require urgent treatment, according to the UN, while aid enters the blockaded Palestinian territory at a trickle...
IN THE crowded alleys and neon-lit corners of Dhaka, Chattogram, Khulna, and Sylhet, a vulnerable population often goes unseen 鈥� Bangladesh鈥檚 street children. They are the children who sleep under bridges, work at tea stalls, wash cars at intersections, and beg for survival. According to estimates by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and UNICEF, there are over...
The ICDDR,B has said that it has developed an integrated health programme that was effectively helping pregnant women, adolescent girls and young children living in the country鈥檚 urban slums...
Two children drowned in a pond near their house in Patakata area of Nalotona union in Barguna Sadar upazila on Tuesday...
More than 14 million of the world鈥檚 most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die by 2030 because of the Trump administration鈥檚 dismantling of US foreign aid, research projected on Tuesday...
A Nobel Prize-winning anti-nuclear group launched an online memorial Tuesday for the 38,000 children who died in the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ahead of the 80th anniversary next month...
Speakers, including government officials, on Thursday, said that there was no alternative to building safe playgrounds for the mental development of children and youths...
From Gaza to the Democratic Republic of Congo, violence against children in conflict zones reached 鈥榰nprecedented levels鈥� in 2024, a United Nations annual report said Thursday.
Nearly 138 million children were still working in the world鈥檚 fields and factories in 2024, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning that given the slow pace of progress, eliminating child labour could be delayed by 鈥榟undreds of years.鈥�...
An allocation of Tk聽2,60,767 crore has been proposed for the gender-relevant budget and Tk聽5,078 crore for the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs in the financial year 2025鈥�2026, both marking a decrease from the FY 2024-25...
Five children drowned in three separate incidents in Lakshmipur and Sherpur on Saturday.聽
Saudi Arabia鈥檚 humanitarian arm the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre donated 667 tonnes of dates to support Rohingya children in Bangladesh...
PNEUMONIA having been a reason for the death of more than 12,000 children aged under five, which comes down to more than a child every hour, appears gravely worrying. The disease kills more than one in 10 children under five. In 2018, the disease, which is caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi leaving children fighting for breath, was responsible for more than 13 per cent...
According to a survey, pneumonia kills more than one in ten under five years children in Bangladesh as it is one of the leading killer diseases.
Rights organisation Nari Unnayan Shakti has called for increased national budget allocation and the introduction of a separate budget for women and children with disabilities...
DOMESTIC workers, mostly women and children, continue to work without any legal and policy protection in Bangladesh. A 12-year-old who was allegedly raped by her employer and is currently being treated at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital brings to light the issue of a legally unprotected workplace for domestic workers. This is, however, not an isolated incident. In...
The police on Sunday filed a case against 21 people with Munshiganj Sadar police station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act allegedly for beating two girls in a launch anchored at Munshiganj launch terminal on Friday...
Two children drowned in ponds in two separate incidents under Faridganj in Chandpur on Wednesday...