The idea of choosing your baby’s hair and eye colour, IQ, height, weight and talents fills most of us with a sense of horror, evoking memories of Nazi breeding programmes from the 1930’s. Yet some are overcoming the (...) +
Five years ago, the Ugandan police entrusted a dying baby into the care of US immigrant Robert Fleming. A year later, with the help of other volunteers, Fleming had set up a small NGO: Malayka House, and was caring (...) +
More than four million people live in the world’s rubbish dumps. More than half of these are children, victims of profound social injustice, poverty and neglect.
Filming in India, Nicaragua and Ghana, this (...) +
Jorge Molinedo, the main character in ’Child Miners’, is now 15 and is determined to have a better life than his father. Thanks to the possibilities opened up by Evo Morales’ indigenous government, "leadership courses" (...) +
Against the sordid backdrop of the Cambodian sex industry, we profile the lives of three young girls who have been dragged into prostitution. Srey Leak, Me Nea and Cheata are little more than children. They share (...) +
In Pakistan, having a baby girl is seen by some as bad luck; if the child reaches adulthood the parents will have to pay a dowry of up to 5 years’ salary to marry her off. So some parents decide to kill their babies (...) +
Children as young as two face sexual and physical abuse at camel jockey training schools in the Middle East. After being sold to the schools, they are starved to prevent weight gain and live in slave-like (...) +
Jorge and Alex are among thousands of children working in Bolivia’s mines for less than a dollar a day. Jorge’s father suffers from silicosis, the so-called ‘miners’ disease’, so Jorge is the main breadwinner for his (...) +
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