I repost here a story I wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer that was in Tuesday’s paper. It looks at the problem of men, generally affluent, white men from developed countries, who travel abroad to sexually molest children and some of the people fighting to end it. I’ll post later on information on one international nongovernmental organization, [...]

The story below about child soldiers just came in this morning from IRIN. The media and activists who care about this issue need to figure out a way to get the plight of child soldiers into the international consciousness to a degree that promotes real action. This story will probably get picked up in numerous publications [...]

The BBC’s Owen Bennett-Jones had a terrific report today explaining how, in the BBC’s words, “The Taliban is recruiting children and teenagers as suicide bombers to carry out attacks across Pakistan, authorities say. Correspondent Owen Bennett-Jones reports on claims that many children are being kidnapped before being taken to “suicide nurseries.” This illuminates a hideous [...]

It is so small, in fact, that I can’t really get myself to praise past the headline of this posting. It’s outrageous that an 8-year-old girl was forced into marrying a 50-year-old man. It is more sad proof that child trafficking thrives, as does the commodification of children. It’s a damn good thing she was allowed to [...]