In Focus: Does the Nobel Peace Prize Achieve its Goal?

At the beginning of October, 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Peace Prize. She is the first person to receive the Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child and the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year. Yousafzai, a children’s rights activist and journalist, became famous in October … Continue reading →

Doctor Sentenced for Child-Trafficking; One-Child Policy to Blame?

A doctor in rural Fuping County in China’s Shaanxi Province has received a suspended death sentence for selling seven infants into child-trafficking. The sentencing court has announced that while working as an obstetrician at the Fuping Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital, the doctor, Zhang Shuxia “fabricate[d] reports about the infants, saying they had suffered from … Continue reading →