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Prince Harry, Meghan Markle On Child Digital Safety: Gaps In Legal System Lead To...
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle delivered a message focusing on the urgent need to protect children in today's digital landscape and what they plan to do in this direction through their Archewell Foundation.
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Apple's Internal Memo Acknowledges 'Misunderstandings' About Its New Photo Screening Features: Report
Apple reportedly shared a memo internally acknowledging the “misunderstandings” around the new features aimed at protecting children. It also emphasised that these features are important for keeping children safe. The Cupertino giant recently announced it will implement a system that checks photos on iPhone devices in the United States before t...
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Highlights Of NDTV-UNICEF #Reimagine Telethon: An Initiative To Protect Most Vulnerable Children Affected By COVID-19
Children are the forgotten victims of the pandemic. COVID has severely affected not just children's health but has caused many of them to drop out of school. Family incomes are badly hit and so is children's nutrition and health including timely immunisation. With lockdowns being relaxed, things will improve but will not get back to normal for a ve...
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US To Take 'Extraordinary' Measures To Deal With Immigrant Children
The United States will take "extraordinary" protective measures to deal with a surge of immigrant children in custody; Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Wednesday after a second Guatemalan child died in custody.
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14 Officials Suspended For Sitting On Bihar Shelter Home Audit Report
Fourteenofficers of Bihar's child protection unit have been suspended for allegedly sitting on a report prepared by an independent agency that first drew attention to the horrific details of the Muzaffarpur shelter home.
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"Insufficient Evidence" To Suggest Sherin's Adoptive Parents Abused Her: Report
In a new twist in the Sherin Mathews' case, US child protection authorities say they have found "insufficient evidence" if the deceased Indian toddler was physically abused by her adoptive mother and blamed "an unknown perpetrator" for her injuries, prior to her adoption.
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Woman Who Longed To Be 'Best Mom I Can Be' Suspected In Death Of 2 Kids Found In California Storage Unit
On Friday evening, authorities in the rural northern California town of Quincy received a tip about child abuse at an apartment where Huntsman and her 17-year-old boyfriend, Gonzalo Curiel, were staying. When Plumas County child protective services agents arrived at the address, they were sickened by what they discovered.
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Two More Reasons to Breastfeed: It May Reduce Moms' Cancer and Diabetes Risk
Thanks to a deluge of public health campaigns in the United States over the past decade, everyone knows how good breastfeeding can be for your child beyond simple nutrition. Breast milk is known for its disease-fighting power that can protect newborns from everything from stomach viruses and ear infections but there are also studies that showed bre...
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Two More Reasons to Breastfeed: It May Reduce Moms' Cancer and Diabetes Risk
Thanks to a deluge of public health campaigns in the United States over the past decade, everyone knows how good breastfeeding can be for your child beyond simple nutrition. Breast milk is known for its disease-fighting power that can protect newborns from everything from stomach viruses and ear infections but there are also studies that showed bre...
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Lawmakers From 9 Nations Unite to Combat Children Slavery, Abuse
Lawmakers from nine countries vowed on Saturday to put aside politics and join forces to help protect children from being forced into manual labour or trafficked into slavery.
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Child Workers Rescued from Hyderabad a Week Ago, Still Far Away from Home
Nearly 350 children from Bihar have been rescued from bangle-making units in the Old City are in Hyderabad in the last one week. The children, aged between 8 and 18, were kept as bonded labour. But even after a week of being rescued, the children are still waiting to see their families.
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Thane Police Child Protection Unit Foils Child Marriage
The Child Protection Unit (CPU) of the Thane Police Commissionerate swung into action today after a tip-off and foiled a child marriage in the district, official sources said today evening.
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How a Search on Google United a Lost Girl with Her Parents
Gudiya was six when she went missing from a train in Bihar. The 23-year-old was re-united with her parents in Guwahati, Assam, last week, thanks to an enthusiastic government official and Google search.
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Vatican Urges Sex Abuse Critics Not to Stay 'Fossilised in Past'
The Vatican told critics of its sexual abuse record on Tuesday that it had developed model child protection policies over the last decade and that its accusers should not stay "fossilised in the past" when attitudes were different.
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US custody row: 18-month-old Indrashish Saha to return home with grandmother today
Indrashish Saha, an 18-month-old boy from Bengal, who had been taken away from his parents in the United States and put into the custody of the child protection organisation, will return home today.
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Prince Harry, Meghan Markle On Child Digital Safety: Gaps In Legal System Lead To...
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle delivered a message focusing on the urgent need to protect children in today's digital landscape and what they plan to do in this direction through their Archewell Foundation.
-
Apple's Internal Memo Acknowledges 'Misunderstandings' About Its New Photo Screening Features: Report
Apple reportedly shared a memo internally acknowledging the “misunderstandings” around the new features aimed at protecting children. It also emphasised that these features are important for keeping children safe. The Cupertino giant recently announced it will implement a system that checks photos on iPhone devices in the United States before t...
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Highlights Of NDTV-UNICEF #Reimagine Telethon: An Initiative To Protect Most Vulnerable Children Affected By COVID-19
Children are the forgotten victims of the pandemic. COVID has severely affected not just children's health but has caused many of them to drop out of school. Family incomes are badly hit and so is children's nutrition and health including timely immunisation. With lockdowns being relaxed, things will improve but will not get back to normal for a ve...
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US To Take 'Extraordinary' Measures To Deal With Immigrant Children
The United States will take "extraordinary" protective measures to deal with a surge of immigrant children in custody; Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Wednesday after a second Guatemalan child died in custody.
-
14 Officials Suspended For Sitting On Bihar Shelter Home Audit Report
Fourteenofficers of Bihar's child protection unit have been suspended for allegedly sitting on a report prepared by an independent agency that first drew attention to the horrific details of the Muzaffarpur shelter home.
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"Insufficient Evidence" To Suggest Sherin's Adoptive Parents Abused Her: Report
In a new twist in the Sherin Mathews' case, US child protection authorities say they have found "insufficient evidence" if the deceased Indian toddler was physically abused by her adoptive mother and blamed "an unknown perpetrator" for her injuries, prior to her adoption.
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Woman Who Longed To Be 'Best Mom I Can Be' Suspected In Death Of 2 Kids Found In California Storage Unit
On Friday evening, authorities in the rural northern California town of Quincy received a tip about child abuse at an apartment where Huntsman and her 17-year-old boyfriend, Gonzalo Curiel, were staying. When Plumas County child protective services agents arrived at the address, they were sickened by what they discovered.
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Two More Reasons to Breastfeed: It May Reduce Moms' Cancer and Diabetes Risk
Thanks to a deluge of public health campaigns in the United States over the past decade, everyone knows how good breastfeeding can be for your child beyond simple nutrition. Breast milk is known for its disease-fighting power that can protect newborns from everything from stomach viruses and ear infections but there are also studies that showed bre...
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Two More Reasons to Breastfeed: It May Reduce Moms' Cancer and Diabetes Risk
Thanks to a deluge of public health campaigns in the United States over the past decade, everyone knows how good breastfeeding can be for your child beyond simple nutrition. Breast milk is known for its disease-fighting power that can protect newborns from everything from stomach viruses and ear infections but there are also studies that showed bre...
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Lawmakers From 9 Nations Unite to Combat Children Slavery, Abuse
Lawmakers from nine countries vowed on Saturday to put aside politics and join forces to help protect children from being forced into manual labour or trafficked into slavery.
-
Child Workers Rescued from Hyderabad a Week Ago, Still Far Away from Home
Nearly 350 children from Bihar have been rescued from bangle-making units in the Old City are in Hyderabad in the last one week. The children, aged between 8 and 18, were kept as bonded labour. But even after a week of being rescued, the children are still waiting to see their families.
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Thane Police Child Protection Unit Foils Child Marriage
The Child Protection Unit (CPU) of the Thane Police Commissionerate swung into action today after a tip-off and foiled a child marriage in the district, official sources said today evening.
-
How a Search on Google United a Lost Girl with Her Parents
Gudiya was six when she went missing from a train in Bihar. The 23-year-old was re-united with her parents in Guwahati, Assam, last week, thanks to an enthusiastic government official and Google search.
-
Vatican Urges Sex Abuse Critics Not to Stay 'Fossilised in Past'
The Vatican told critics of its sexual abuse record on Tuesday that it had developed model child protection policies over the last decade and that its accusers should not stay "fossilised in the past" when attitudes were different.
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US custody row: 18-month-old Indrashish Saha to return home with grandmother today
Indrashish Saha, an 18-month-old boy from Bengal, who had been taken away from his parents in the United States and put into the custody of the child protection organisation, will return home today.
