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Street children are kids who spend most of the time in the streets. Some of them have families but come from households where there is extreme poverty, violence, and drug abuse. Others have no home but the streets. The UN estimates there are around 150 million street children worldwide but the exact numbers are unknown.
Street children are boys and girls for whom streets have become home. While some are orphans, many have families but grew up in slum-like settlements in extreme poverty. According to the Institute for Security Studies, Zambia is one of the least developed countries in Africa and more than half of its population have less than $1.90 a day to spend.
Although education is a basic human right, UNICEF estimates that in Zambia at least 800,000 children are out of school. The majority of them come from households living in extreme poverty, in slum-like settlements such as the Matero compound located in the country's capital Lusaka.
An ethnically diverse Himalayan region of Kashmir has been a subject of a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan since the partition in 1947. Despite both countries claiming full control over the region's entirety, Kashmir is divided between them, into an Indian-administered part and a Pakistan-administered part.For the last three decades, Indian-controlled Kashmir has been characterised by unrest due to a separatist insurgency opposing the Indian rule.
Human trafficking, an issue affecting mainly women and girls, is deeply rooted in India. Although it is difficult to measure the exact scale of the issue due to its hidden and illegal nature, thousands of women and girls are trafficked through the country every year, according to government statistics.
Nestled between the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges in northern India, Ladakh is a remote, picturesque region culturally distinct from the rest of India due to its own language and traditions. For centuries, life in Ladakh revolved around agriculture, and this traditional way of living was passed on from generation to generation.
In India’s Uttar Pradesh, NGO workers put their safety on the line to fight child prostitution, end sex trafficking, and restore victims’ dignity. I talked to Ajeet Singh, the founder of Guria, a Varanasi-based NGO which works towards eradicating trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and children.
Leh As Muslims worldwide observed Ashura on Tuesday 9 August, a procession took place also in India's predominantly Buddhist Leh. Despite divides between Buddhists and Muslims in India, the event was peaceful. Ashura is the tenth day of Muharram which is the first month of the Islamic calendar.
Georgia's European dream did not start yesterday. Ever since the Soviet Union collapsed and Georgia gained independence, the country has been expressing its aspirations to join the European Union. Plans to join the EU are enshrined in the country's constitution and, despite not directly bordering any of the existing EU member states, Georgians proudly call [...]
Georgia, along with Ukraine, was promised NATO membership at the 2008 Bucharest Summit but fourteen years on, both countries are still waiting to be allowed into the alliance. In the wake of the Ukraine war, Georgia who, over the years, experienced three wars including Russia, is reiterating its interest in joining NATO - writes Katarzyna [...]