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To Be Or Not To Be Citizen By Birth

Photo of a woman holding a child's hand in the Sanità neighborhood of Naples
Walking in the Sanità neighborhood of Naples Gaebal via Instagram

A rude woman causes our Naples-based psychiatrist to get lost in thoughts of birthright and citizenship.

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Newspaper Gets Scoops In India, With Staff Of Street Kids

There are millions of Indian children in need.
There are millions of Indian children in need. jpdavidson

NEW DELHI — The journalists gathered for an editorial meeting at their newspaper in the Indian capital. Their work includes hard-hitting reportage and investigative scoops that other publications in the country followed up on. The group of journalists are unlike most others. They live on the streets. And they are all under the age of 18. Their paper, a New Dehlhi monthly called Balaknama or ‘Voice of Children,’ publishes stories of children living and working on the streets. Exploring topics such as child sexual abuse, child labor and police brutality, the newspaper has doubled in size from its original four […]

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Society Syria Crisis

Child Beggars Multiply On The Streets Of Damascus

A Syrian child comes back into al-Moadamiya, a district on the outskirts of Damascus that has been besieged by the government troops for months, in Syria, March 2, 2014.
A Syrian child comes back into al-Moadamiya, a district on the outskirts of Damascus that has been besieged by the government troops for months, in Syria, March 2, 2014. Jiang Tieying/Xinhua/ZUMA

Children as young as four are the main breadwinners for some families in the Syrian capital.

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