UN envoy for children in conflict welcomes commitments at recent ...
UN News Centre
--The top United Nations official dealing with children and armed conflict today hailed agreements reached earlier this week in France, known as the Paris Principles, aimed at ending the unlawful recruitment and use of children in warfare, but she also highlighted increasing problems for children in strife-torn Sudan.

Study Finds Increasing Abuse In Teen Relationships
WKRN - Nashville,TN,USA
--According to a new study funded by Liz Claiborne, one in four teens said they have been harassed, embarrassed, called names, emotionally abused by their partners on cell phones and via text-messaging.  The study also said 66% of the teens did not tell their parents.

Teen Dating Abuse Hotline Open
KBTV4.tv - Beaumont,TX,USA
--The number for the hotline is 866-331-9474 or online at loveisrespect.org.

PeachCare won't enroll new children
WALB-TV - Albany,GA,USA
--The program helps low-income families provide much-needed health care for their children, but it's about to run out of money.

Even Amid Its Wealth, India Finds, Half Its Small Children Are ...
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
--In this young nation, where 40 percent of the people are under 18, figures released by the government on Friday offered an alarming portrait of child health: Among children under 3, nearly half are clinically underweight, the most reliable measure of malnutrition.

Immigration's net binds children too
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
--Khadijah is 9 years old.  She is one of 208 children being held with their parents at the T. Don Hutto family detention center, the Department of Homeland Security's answer to the problem of families caught living in or entering the country illegally.

Rewriting `No Child' a challenge
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
--Students learning English and those with disabilities were an afterthought when the No Child Left Behind law was being written, according to those involved.