allAfrica.com: Kenya: Investing in the Youth Key to Reducing Poverty
--"A new World Bank report says that more than five million young people in Kenya have no access to education, good healthcare and quality jobs."

Guardian Unlimited: Children surely deserve more than rising despair
--"The crisis affecting young people is very real. Facing up to that isn't backward-looking or conservative, it's the left's responsibility."

Guardian Unlimited: Let children be children - Williams
--"On the subject of child-targeted advertising, Dr Williams revealed that he had been in discussions with regulators about the subject. Asked if he would support a ban on ads aimed at children, he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "It's worth a try.""

Forbes: Studies Reveal Slow Progress on Global Child Deaths
--"In one study, researchers found that the world's major aid donors gave an estimated $1.36 billion to the 60 countries that account for the most child deaths in the world. That sounds like a large sum, but translates to just $3.10 per child, the researchers said."

Monsters and Critics: `Jesus Camp` examines evangelical youth
--"The provocative documentary 'Jesus Camp,' which focuses on a youth Bible camp in Devil Lake, N.D., is prompting a closer look at evangelical youth."

MSNBC: Chinese getting fitter, but youth getting fatter
--"Chinese people are slightly fitter than they were five years ago, but the nation’s youth are are also noticeably fatter and their eyesight is deteriorating, Chinese officials said on Monday."

Reuters: Global action needed to improve child survival
--"More than 10 million children under 5 years old die each year but two-thirds of those deaths could be prevented with effective, cheap treatments that are already available, health experts said on Monday."

The Australian: Child education funding 'embarrassing'
--"Australia is embarrassingly behind other industrialised nations in early childhood education, Labor says."