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Armed conflict and disrupted education expose children to heightened risks of exploitation and violence. (Photo by José Nicolas/Sygma via Getty Images)

Education can help child soldiers reintegrate into society

A child-rights-based approach to education in disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programmes gives children the tools for healing, belonging and participation in…

The South African Council for Educators (SACE) has admitted that it has “systemic gaps” that can allow teachers found guilty of serious misconduct and subsequently scrapped from its register to still practice their profession. (John McCann/M&G)

Abusive teachers still slip through system, council for educators admits

The council told the Human Rights Commission that “systemic gaps” and weak controls mean teachers found guilty of offences could still be found in the system

An international children’s organisation has told the South African Human Rights Commission that teachers in Limpopo who have long been in the profession use corporal punishment because that is the only form of discipline they know.

‘Teachers do not know better than using corporal punishment’

This was revealed on the second day of provincial hearings into bullying, corporal punishment and sexual relations between teachers and learners by the Human Rights Commission

Jiba was acting NDPP from December 28 2011 until August 30 2013. (Gallo)

Landmark moment for children’s rights in South Africa

The constitutionality of corporal punishment in the home will be determined by the apex court

The trend of voluntourism has come about partly through initiatives by large-scale

Voluntourism: What’s wrong with it and how it can be changed

A travel trend of people "doing good" has come under heavy criticism as people inadvertently perpetuate unhelpful ideas about the places they visit.

Devastated: The earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia’s Sulawesi in September left more than 1?600 dead and 70?000 homeless. This woman lost her three children. (Jorge Silva/Reuters)

Refugees in Greece feel like ‘prisoners and hostages’

On Samos Island, some 2,000 asylum seekers are crammed in a refugee centre designed to accommodate only 700 people.

Breastfeeding benefits mom and baby

Comment: Superfood for Babies

It’s World Breastfeeding Week and government and Save the Children have joined forces to promote breastfeeding to save children’s lives.

Low health spend blamed for India’s child mortality

About two million children under five die from lack of care in India every year, more than in any other country, said a new report released on Monday.

First cholera, now anthrax hits Zimbabwe

An anthrax outbreak has killed three people and threatens to wipe out livestock in Zimbabwe, compounding the nation’s struggle against cholera.

Zimbabwe children eating toxic roots, rats

Children in Zimbabwe are eating rats and inedible roots riddled with toxic parasites to stave off hunger because of chronic food shortages.