May 2009
Quit Smoking for Africa
May 01, 2009 12:00 PM
Feeding the family a worry as Mexico faces five-day shutdown
May 01, 2009 12:00 PM
Crackdown on China’s surrogate mum industry
May 01, 2009 12:00 PM
Child labour and street children in Bamako, Mali
May 01, 2009 12:00 PM
What makes children read?
May 01, 2009 12:00 PM
DNA database to find China’s trafficked children
May 01, 2009 12:00 PM
Thousands flee Pakistan’s Swat
May 06, 2009 12:00 PM
Thousands of people fleed Swat, Pakistan, as a peace deal between the Taliban and the government collapsed
Zimbabwe teachers’ strike called off
May 06, 2009 12:00 PM
Teachers in Zimbabwe today called off a strike even though their wage demands have not been met, after the government agreed to scrap fees for teachers’ own children. The stand down comes as the government has slashed school fees for the new term.
Burma cyclone help still needed one year on
May 06, 2009 12:00 PM
Amazon floods leave 186,000 homeless
May 06, 2009 12:00 PM
Chinese say quake killed 5,335 children
May 07, 2009 12:00 PM
Sponsor's update from Dhodial, Pakistan
May 07, 2009 12:00 PM
Child sponsorship update from the SOS Children's Village Dhodial, Pakistan from April 2008.
Sri Lankan refugees tell of horror
May 07, 2009 12:00 PM
More than a million flee Pakistan fighting
May 08, 2009 12:00 PM
More than a million people have fleed fighting in the Swat region of Pakistan, as fighting between the government and Taliban intensifies.
China says no one to blame for schools collapse
May 08, 2009 12:00 PM
Burkina Faso gives nameless women and children an identity
May 08, 2009 12:00 PM
China quake one year on
May 12, 2009 12:00 PM
Child traffickers target soft touch UK, say MPs
May 12, 2009 12:00 PM
100 children dead in Sri Lanka weekend ‘bloodbath’
May 12, 2009 12:00 PM
Families head home after Brazil floods, but 267,000 homeless
May 13, 2009 12:00 PM
‘I want to be a doctor’ says brave China quake boy
May 13, 2009 12:00 PM
Poison attack on Afghan girls' school
May 13, 2009 12:00 PM
Families split as Sri Lankans flee fighting
May 14, 2009 12:00 PM
Slumdog child stars homeless in Mumbai
May 14, 2009 12:00 PM
US adoption bid couple on trial in Egypt
May 15, 2009 12:00 PM
Sri Lanka - aid workers warn of ‘humanitarian catastrophe’
May 15, 2009 12:00 PM
Sri Lanka rebel leader shot dead
May 18, 2009 12:00 PM
SOS Children's Villages Sri Lanka could take in up to 400 refugee children
May 18, 2009 12:00 PM
Sierra Leone opens Rainforest Peace Park
May 19, 2009 12:00 PM
Crisis in camps as Sri Lanka blocks aid
May 20, 2009 12:00 PM
Six-year old killed in Somalia shelling
May 20, 2009 12:00 PM
Mudslides in Philippines buries dozens of shanty towns
May 20, 2009 12:00 PM
Schoolchildren in Kosovo welcome Biden
May 21, 2009 12:00 PM
Fears for thousands of children fleeing fighting in Pakistan
May 22, 2009 12:00 PM
There are serious concerns for the welfare of the thousands of children fleeing fighting in Pakistan.
Sri Lanka vow to resettle thousands of homeless Tamils
May 22, 2009 12:00 PM
Babies born in UK live nearly twice as long as babies in Sierra Leone
May 22, 2009 12:00 PM
Mexico drops swine flu alert
May 26, 2009 12:00 PM
UN calls for £343m for Pakistan crisis
May 26, 2009 12:00 PM
The United Nations has called for £343m for the two million people displaced by fighting in north-west Pakistan.
HIV battling South Africa’s growing band of women truckers
May 26, 2009 12:00 PM
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