Friday, November 20, marked the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most comprehensive treaty on children's rights.
tech.yahoo.com | Posted 11.05.2009 | Technology
BEIJING (AFP) -China has issued rules banning the beating and confinement of youths being treated for Internet addiction after revelations of abuse at...
Betwa Sharma | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
Prison conditions worldwide are worse than the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture could have imagined. Jails without air, toilets and food are not rare.
The Huffington Post | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living
A new study suggests that spanking children can significantly lower their IQs. The study, involving hundreds of U.S. children, showed the more a c...
Stephen Ducat | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
No paranoid fantasy seems too bizarre, too implausible, or too disconnected from consensual reality to find a credulous audience among right wing true believers.
Alice Farmer | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
Corporal punishment causes pain, humiliation, and in some cases deep bruising or other serious injury; it also can have long-lasting psychological consequences.
The Huffington Post | Posted 08.13.2009 | World
Sudanese women have been flogged for wearing trousers, according to a local journalist who is also facing the punishment, the BBC reports. Journalist...
New York Post | CALARRY CELONA, AMBER SUTHERLAND and LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT | Posted 06.22.2009 | Local
A meeting to discuss accusations that a teacher used corporal punishment at a Brooklyn school turned violent when the principal began kicking and beat...
Sean Jacobs | Posted 01.16.2009 | Living
How do you raise 'American kids' when you were raised to be an African parent?
CBS 2 | Posted 11.07.2008 | Chicago
"At least five Chicago public schools are now under investigation for beating athletes including Wendell Phillips High School and John Marshall High S...
Nahal Zamani | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics