Zau Seng, 11, is a student at Nam Ya Middle School, in Moe Nyin District, Kachin State, Myanmar. Kachin has been affected by conflict since 2011, following the collapse of a 17-year ceasefire. The recent violence has resulted in thousands of deaths and the displacement of around 100,000 civilians, half of them children. Despite ongoing… Read more →←
Author: Andy Brown
Baum Myaw, 12, lives with her family at a camp for displaced people near Myitkyina, capital of Kachin State, Myanmar. Kachin has been affected by conflict since 2011, following the collapse of a 17-year ceasefire. The recent violence has resulted in thousands of deaths and the displacement of around 100,000 civilians, including children.… Read more →←
Vu, 24, grew up in the countryside outside Ho Chi Minh City. Rural southern Viet Nam was not an easy place to be gay. At the age of 12, Vu told some friends he liked boys. “My friends were supportive, but the guy I liked told everyone I was disgusting,” he recalls. After that, Vu kept his sexual orientation secret from his friends… Read more →←
Every twenty minutes, a busy ferry crosses the river from downtown Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, to the rural village of Dala on the opposite bank. On a recent morning, the ferry was packed with local commuters wearing Burmese ‘longyi’ skirts, vendors selling speckled eggs and cigarettes, and a handful of adventurous tourists. As… Read more →←
Together with a UNICEF emergency response team, I visited the community of Kwang Yang Ri (village), Yonsa county, which was hard hit by floods that have affected northern DPR Korea in recent weeks. The roads had been badly damaged and we arrived just one day after access was restored. Here, we met Ri Jong Sun, an 84-year-old woman living… Read more →←
“It is my passion to be involved in a programme that focuses on children,” said Salaseini, a Just Play Emergency Programme Coordinator with the Fiji Football Association. For Salaseini, every morning it all starts with a ball. As a Coordinator in this unique programme, she is playing an important role in ensuring that children… Read more →←
“I saw the water coming and I felt afraid. I ran up the hill and hid in the cave.” From a cavern in the rocks high above his village, Eremasi, 14, watched as huge waves engulfed his home, school and village. The brand new kindergarten at his school, which had opened the day before the cyclone, was now completely demolished. “I was… Read more →←
From social media to online chatting, the Internet has countless avenues for sharing and connecting with friends and communities. But this open network also carries many risks, especially for children. After falling victim to cyberbullying, Nicole is on a mission to make sure the same doesn’t happen to her peers. Fourteen-year-old… Read more →←
The Philippines has become the global epicentre of the live stream sexual abuse trade, and many of the victims are children. In the slums of Manila, a police raid of a child sexual exploitation operation illuminates the challenges the country faces in protecting vulnerable children and prosecuting their abusers. As stated by the UN… Read more →←
Loida, 37, lives with her husband Richard and four-year-old son David in Santa Rosa, a small town on the shores of Laguna Lake, south of Manila. In the streets, brightly decorated ‘jeepney’ buses and tricycles drive through a large yellow arch, which used to serve as a watchtower for marauding pirates. Small stores sell mobile phone… Read more →←
