We can only imagine what it must be like, as teenage sisters, to have your family ripped apart and be...The struggles of children left behind by migration at the time of COVID-19
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Councils urged to create ‘school streets’ for children’s safety
Councils in the UK have been urged to close roads to cars during school pick up and drop off times to make journeys safer and manage social distancing at the school gates. (more…)Read more
German government gives cash payments to families
Families in Germany will be given a one-off cash payment for each child under a government package aimed at kickstarting the economy. (more…)Read more
COVID-19 may push millions more children into child labour – ILO and UNICEF
Millions more children risk being pushed into child labour as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, which could lead to the first rise in child labour after 20 years of progress. (more…)Read more
Slovak city challenges children to model the city in Minecraft
The Slovak city of Trnava is letting its creativity flow by using kids’ computer gaming prowess to encourage them to play a role in local planning. (more…)Read more
The urban poor have been hit hard by coronavirus. We must ask who cities are designed to serve.
The enormous death toll in New York City, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in the US, led New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, to write that “there is a density level in NYC that is...Read more
Bernard van Leer Foundation report highlights Urban 95 successes
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We’re at a fork in the road: do we choose neighbourhoods to live, work and play in?
Living, working and playing in the one neighbourhood has often been touted as the ideal outcome for well-planned cities. Yet this goal has been elusive. For most of us, our daily activities are segregated into...Read more
Government ‘must set out timetable for reopening playgrounds’
Outdoor play campaigners in the UK have written to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to set out when and how public playgrounds will be reopened. (more…)Read more
Unequal access to remote schooling threatens to deepen global learning crisis
With over a billion schoolchildren still affected by COVID-19 school closures contending with the harsh reality of remote learning, UNICEF says fundamental inequalities in accessing technology is deepening this global learning crisis. (more…)Read more
WHO: Tobacco industry must stop exploiting children
The World Health Organization has launched a new kit for school students aged 13-17 to alert them to the tobacco industry tactics used to hook them to addictive products. Every year the tobacco industry invests...Read more
Why children need to be taught more about their human rights
Many children have an innate sense of equality, fairness and justice and know how these concepts relate to their day-to-day lives. A lot of children also have the confidence to voice their opinions when they...Read more