With more than a million children orphaned by COVID, faith-based groups look to mobilise support
RNS More than a million children around the world may have been orphaned by COVID-19, losing one or both parents to the disease or related causes. Another estimated 500,000 lost a grandparent or another relative who cared for them. Orphans eat a meal in Sylhet, Bangladesh, in April, 2021. PICTURE: Imdadul Hussain/Unsplash/Creative Commons The numbers […]
Children prey to online ads of harmful products, regulation needed – UN study
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Children and adolescents are being bombarded with ads on social media promoting harmful products from fast food to tobacco and alcohol, according to a United Nations-backed report on Wednesday that called for regulation. Advertisers also sell data on children obtained from electronic games to global tech giants, said the report’s lead author, Anthony […]