Why US ranked Lowest

It's an interesting article published yesterday in the Washington Post that UNICEF ranked US and Britain the lowest in the child welfare survey. The article says, "...The Netherlands, followed by Sweden, Denmark and Finland, finished at the top of the rankings, while the United States was 20th and Britain 21st, according to the report released Wednesday in Germany by UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency. One of the study's researchers, Jonathan Bradshaw, said children fared worse in the United States and Britain -- despite high overall levels of national wealth -- because of greater economic inequality and poor levels of public support for families".

As a child welfare professional, it concerns all of us. Are we failing as a profession? Read more!

Poverty & Hunger

Words are more powerful than letters. Pictures are more powerful than words. Watch this powerful video on world hunger and poverty. (Please note, it's graphic)

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Faces of Victims

I always find audio visual presentations are to be more powerful than hundreds of words to show the pains of children across the globe who are victim of child trafficking. When I'm working here as a child welfare professional to ensure safety, permanency and well being, thousands of children are becoming commodities of heartless criminals who sell these young children's innocence. Please watch this video "Toys of Lust and Greed" presented by Campaign Against Child Trafficking in India. This situation is no different for children from neighboring Bangladesh. So please watch this video and act on it:

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Is it Poltical Commitment

Speakers in a conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh stressed on poltical commitment of the Government to stop child trafficking. Daily Star reports on December 21, 2006 that "a total of 71 people have been punished since the year 2004 due to their involvement in child trafficking and 394 have been arrested". This number seems low as a lot of trafficking cases go unreported to the Authority. Read more!

Domestic Violance in Bangladesh

Children are at risk when they face domestic violence. In Bangladesh, we still ignore domestic violence as a social problem. Read this article at Daily Star journal on domestic violence. The author, a law student in Bangladesh, writes in his article, "Almost all of civil and criminal laws of Bangladesh deal with violence against women committed within general community by strangers with few exceptions e.g. dissolution of marriage, dowry related violence, dower, maintenance, guardianship and custody. Present laws are ignorant about issues of sexual abuse e.g. marital rape, verbal or psychological or economic abuse caused by domestic violence and also fail to provide adequate remedy. High probability of non-conviction of accused under existing laws lowers rate of filing cases comparing total incidents of domestic violence". Definitely, we've to go a long way to counter domestic violence. Read more!

Smile for a child, then end poverty

This is a very powerful video presented in the youtube. Watch this documentary to enroll yourself to fight world poverty.

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US Responses to fight human trafficking in Bangladesh

United States is offiering huge technical and financial resources in Bangladesh to fight human trafficking. There are a lot of technical reports that put in place by US initiative. As a child welfare professional, I'm really grateful to US respone. If you'd like to go through all the resources, please go to USAid Bangladesh page. Read more!