SEOUL (Reuters) - With her flower-print dress and black hair dyed a fashionable light brown, Kim Ha-na does not seem like a former child beggar who risked her life three times trying to escape from ...

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday (April 1) orally questioned the State government over non-appointment of a nodal ...

President Macky Sall announced last week that the children, known as talibe, must be taken off the streets immediately, and that those who force them to beg would be fined or imprisoned. Sweeping ...

SINGAPORE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Longdy Chhap was five, polio consumed his body, leaving him confined to a wheelchair and rolling around to play outside in his village near the seedy ...

Hundreds of boys have their names and temperatures checked as they wait to board buses in a northern Nigeria's city to transport them back to their villages. Now, they are the first batch in a ...

Guwahati: At almost every traffic signal in Guwahati, intersections have turned into makeshift begging hubs. Child beggars — often carrying younger siblings or pushed onto the streets by desperate ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- On the day he decided to run away, 9-year-old Coli awoke on a filthy mat. It was still dark as he set out for the mouth of a freeway with the other boys, a tribe of 7-, 8- and 9-year ...

One voice told him "a disability kid makes a family poor", while the broker's voice said, "You will have good money to help your family" SINGAPORE, May 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Longdy ...