Children

It is deeply heartbreaking to see the tears of anguish in the eyes of parents of children and teenagers who had been living happy lives, only to suddenly take their own lives without seeking protection or help from their families or even their closest loved ones—because of cyber sexual extortion they were subjected to online […]

Born in 2010 with dwarfism, Quaden Bayles, a child from one of Australia’s Indigenous tribes, suffered from people’s stares and being photographed because of his different appearance, and he was repeatedly subjected to bullying and humiliating mockery at school. I was deeply moved, as were millions around the world, by the video his mother shared […]

Ahmad OkbelbabAhmad OkbelbabauthorView profile4 January 2026

When we hear the phrase child labor, the immediate image that comes to mind is that of a miserable child toiling in a dark factory or a dust-filled mine, shocking the world with his frailty as he carries weights far beyond his strength. This tragic, painful image prompts us to raise our voices in rejection, […]

In this world where the streets buzz with classified ads and the screens shimmer with packaged dreams, it is no longer easy to distinguish between what we truly need and what we’ve been convinced we need. We are the children of an era in which markets do not merely offer goods, but infiltrate our minds […]

I listened to an old episode of the program “Hayat wa Nas” on Monte Carlo Doualiya Radio, which addressed the topic of adoption in the Arab world. Despite the importance of the discussion, I was surprised by what seemed to be an excessive push to grant Christians special social privileges—or as if the episode aimed […]