#Children

Opinion: A child who waits years for a hearing has already been heard too late

Tamil Nadu has 18,733 POCSO cases pending. A system that makes a child wait years for a special court, a forensic report and a support person has failed before the trial begins.

7 October 2026 · 2 min read

BreakingTamil Nadu

18,733 cases, one waiting child: Tamil Nadu's POCSO queue is itself a second injury

Across Tamil Nadu's 38 districts, 18,733 POCSO cases are pending. More than half have crossed the one-year limit the law sets, while support for child survivors remains patchy and uneven.

7 October 2026 · 2 min read

Children return to a reopened school in Yemen

International

The school bag he left behind: in Taiz, a generation waits outside closed classrooms

More than 137,000 students in Yemen have lost their classrooms as 243 schools closed or suspended lessons amid renewed fighting, UNICEF says. In Taiz's displacement camps, children like 12-year-old Ahmed wait with no school to go to.

7 October 2026 · 2 min read