Children

A generation of Afghans came of age amid relentless violence. Saturday’s election offers little hope for help.

The war against Boko Haram saw kids drafted by both sides. Now they need assistance and a post-conflict future.

On the podcast: The filmmaker Nanfu Wang tells the harrowing story of her own family’s one-child ordeal.

The relationship among birthrates, gender norms, and work culture is more complicated than you think.

In an era of great power competition, China and Russia are closing the gap with the United States when it comes to child welfare.

As schools become targets, young Afghans are living and working on the streets — and the government isn’t doing much to protect them.

The U.S. child welfare system is strained to its limits. Family separation could push it over the edge.

Should Brazil keep its Amazon tribes from taking the lives of their children?

State Department officials with special needs children face a byzantine bureaucracy that often denies them critical care.

Photographer Chris de Bode interviewed 7-year-old refugees to mark the seventh year of the Syrian civil war.

Wary of creeping international law, U.S. diplomats fight a rearguard action to limit the scope of two U.N. resolutions on women and children.

The Russian president is worried about his country’s shrinking population. His social-conservative allies say they have the solution.

The State Department’s latest Trafficking in Persons Report only enables serial abusers.

After years of wooing the middle-aged and elderly, the Kremlin is attempting to court young voters. And it's extremely awkward.

Thousands of young Iraqis have been trapped, displaced, or killed as the fight to retake the city from the Islamic State enters its seventh month.

In Recife, Brazil’s ground zero of the Zika virus, a community struggles to deal with the devastating spread of microcephaly.

Italy tried to launch a campaign to promote fertility. Instead, it offended the population it meant to target.

A bold movement of progressive publishers and artists is bringing new comic book heroes to Pakistan’s at-risk children.

The Afghan government swore to do away with the practice, and, under its own laws, the U.S. government is barred from funding countries that employ it. So why did the United States still fork over some $470 million?