Indian children demand climate action from parliamentarians

"We pledge to our children that we in our actions are committed to being environmentally responsible and prudent in resource actualisation," said Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani Climate change is real. It is something that activists have been highlighting for many years now, pressing global bodies into taking appropriate actions to contain the damage. On the occasion […]

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UNICEF ‘muted’ on tobacco control for children

The tobacco industry manipulated the renowned children’s rights agency UNICEF for more than a dozen years, from 2003 until at least 2016, during which time UNICEF’s focus on children’s rights to a tobacco-free life was reduced, according to previously secret documents uncovered by UC San Francisco. The research appears April 30, 2018, in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy […]

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