Children – Page 26 – People's World

Children fleeing violence and poverty

June 30, 2014 By Rossana Cambron

Displaced children as young as 13 are leaving their homes in Central America in greater numbers than ever before due to violence from wars involving the cartels, gang initiations and or extortion.

Mothers Day flowers nice but equal pay better

May 9, 2014 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg

A total of 4.7 million moms and their families would see an increase in wages. That's one fifth of all working moms and their families who would benefit.

#Bring our girls home

May 9, 2014 By Emile Schepers

A wave of revulsion has spread worldwide over the news of the kidnapping of young girls from a school at Chibok, in Borno State in Northwestern Nigeria by the violent Boko Haram sect.

“Calpurnia Tate”: a girl comes of age in Texas

March 7, 2014 By Eric A. Gordon

Jacqueline Kelly's engrossing young adult novel set on on a Texas cotton and pecan farm with 338 pages that seemingly turn themselves, is a coming of age tale with vast relevance for today's readers.

Petition campaign launched to halt South Dakota genocide of Native people

January 28, 2014 By Albert Bender

As part of a new campaign to stop the genocide of Native American people in South Dakota, the Lakota People's Law Project has initiated the Campaign to Free Lakota Children with a national petition.