Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO) – 2015

09

Feb

MALALA WON’T GIVE UP ON CHIBOK GIRLS – FATHER

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Malala and her father – Ziauddin Yousafzai Ziauddin Yousafzai, father of Malala, the Nobel Prize laureate Pakistani teenage education activist, has pledged his daughter’s undying commitment to the campaign for the rescue of Chibok girls. Yousafzai said he and Malala would not give up their fight and solidarity with the affected parents …

08

Feb

EXPOSURES – CHILD, BRIDE, MOTHER

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Aracely was 11 when she married her husband, who was 34. Now 15, she is raising her son on her own. “I thought I’d have a better life. But at the end, it didn’t turn out that way”. — Aracely, 15 Guatemala, the legal age of marriage is 14 with parental consent, but in Petén, in the northern part of the country, the law seems …

08

Feb

India has second-highest number of child marriages – Unicef

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The highest rate of child marriage is in Bangladesh (where two out of every three girls marry before age 18), followed by India, Nepal and Afghanistan. India had the highest number of unregistered children under age five between 2000 and 2012 and the second-highest number of child marriages, according to a U.N. report which said the country still needs …

08

Feb

300th Day of Captivity: Nobel peace laureate urges Nigerian schoolgirls release

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A Nobel peace laureate has urged a global effort to secure the release of over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram Takfiri militant group. “As we mark this tragic 300th day of captivity for hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, I call on people everywhere to join me in demanding urgent action to free these heroic girls … Nigerian …

08

Feb

16,600 children lost parents to Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leon – UNICEF

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No fewer than 16,600 children are registered as having lost one or both parents, or primary care-givers to Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone so far, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has said. The UN body said less than three per cent of this population was placed outside family or community care. This was disclosed in a statement …

07

Feb

Florida mom sets record with 14 pound baby boy

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Baby got back! Maxxandra Ford of Tampa, Fl. set a record on Jan. 29 by giving birth to a healthy baby boy weighing 14 pounds and one ounce. That makes her son the largest baby born at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa Bay, and one of the largest ever born in the state’s history. Ford, who has a 1-year-old son and a 5-year-old daughter already, claims …

07

Feb

Father refuses to give up baby with Down syndrome

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When he discovered his newborn son had Down syndrome, a New Zealand man living in Armenia was horrified not by the condition, but by the assumption that he wouldn’t want to keep little Leo. When the boy was born, “the doctor came out, he said, ‘There’s a real problem with your son,'” Samuel Forrest tells ABC. “They …

07

Feb

Fight Against Boko Haram Turns Children Into ‘Soldiers’, Spies

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By Philip Obaji Jr. More than five years of fighting in north eastern Nigeria has produced a replay of Africa’s catastrophic history. Nearly 10,000 have died and over one million people have been displaced. Many schools have been closed, abduction of girls is on the rise and another ghost of wars past is reappearing: the recruitment of child …

07

Feb

PAINTER ARRAIGNED FOR RAPING 3-YEAR-OLD GIRL

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The police have arraigned 25-year-old painter, Hamzat Afeez, for allegedly raping a three-year-old girl in the Egbeda area of Lagos State. He was arraigned on one count of rape at the Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court. Afeez allegedly took the victim’s younger sister into his room while their mother washed clothes in the house. The victim was …

07

Feb

MAN RAPES 11-YEAR OLD DAUGHTER

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The Bauchi State police command has arrested a 45-year-old man for allegedly raping his11-year-old daughter. The state Police Commissioner, Lawal Shehu, while parading the suspect alongside others at the police headquarters in Bauchi on Thursday, expressed worry over the increasing rate of rape cases in the state. He vowed that all suspected rapists …

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