The international community has made progress in grasping the experience of people with disabilities and safeguarding their rights. This article looks at the situation of children with disabilities in Latin America and Caribbean (UNICEF, 2013). Understanding the...
Children Victims of Health Crisis in Madagascar
Since October 2018, the country of Madagascar has become the victim of a new sanitary crisis and is suffering from a terrible measles outbreak. The Ministry of Public Health has declared over “19,000 cases of infection including 67 deceases from the October to...
Giving Children the Right to Healthcare Despite Geopolitical Barriers
In West Jerusalem at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, Israeli and Palestinian doctors work together to save the lives of many children, regardless of their nationality (1). This care often presents the last chance of survival for those...
Children’s Mental Wellbeing: A Global Public Health Challenge
As stated by the World Health Organization, “mental health is more than the absence of mental disorders”; mental health is fundamental to health and overall wellbeing because “without mental health there is no health” (World Health Organization, 2018a). Mental health...
Food: Undernourishment and malnutrition
As everyone knows, human beings must eat. Children’s health and physical development depend heavily on their food, and the consequences of malnutrition in children can have irreversible effects on their health. According to the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization...
Gaza children are the main victims of the conflict
Since 30 May 2018, the date of the beginning of the Israeli offensive, no less than 104 civilians have died in clashes between demonstrators in Gaza and the Israeli army. The current total of victims includes 14 children killed and some 2,000 injured – children who,...