Category: children
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Brazil Records Lowest Number of Births in Nearly 50 Years in 2023
Year after year, Brazilian women are having fewer children. In 2023, the country saw the number of births fall for the fifth consecutive year. There were 2.52 million births, a 0.7% reduction compared to 2022. This amount is 12% lower than the average number of births in the five years prior to the covid-19 pandemic,…
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Bahian Influencer Dai Cruz, Who Passed Away After a Long Battle Against Genetic Disease, Becomes Turma da Mônica Comic Character
The Bahian influencer Dai Cruz, who died after battling Epidermolysis Bullosa, has become a character in a special Turma da Mônica comic edition aimed at raising awareness about the genetic skin disease.
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Social Security Administration Releases New York’s Most Popular Baby Names for 2024
The Social Security Administration announced today the most popular baby names for 2024. Liam and Mia topped the list. The top five names for boys and girls in New York in 2024 were: Boys: 1- Liam 2- Noah 3- Lucas 4- Ethan 5- Joseph Girls: 1- Mia 2- Emma 3- Sophia 4- Olivia 5- Isabella…
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Study Highlights Risks of Facial Recognition Technologies
Smile! Your face is being filmed, classified, compared, and identified, mainly by public security agencies, most of the time without your knowledge. A study by the Federal Public Defender’s Office (DPU), in partnership with the Center for Studies on Security and Citizenship (CESeC), an academic institution linked to Candido Mendes University in Rio de Janeiro,…
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Rio de Janeiro Becomes World Book Capital
In April, the Marvelous City celebrated the official opening of Rio de Janeiro as World Book Capital, a title granted to the city by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The most recent cities selected by UNESCO were Sharjah (2019), Kuala Lumpur (2020), Tbilisi (2021), Guadalajara (2022), Accra (2023) and Strasbourg (2024).…
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Disinformation about Autism on Telegram Surges in Latin America and the Caribbean
In the last five years, the volume of disinformation about autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has grown more than 15,000 percent in Latin American and Caribbean chat groups on the instant messaging app Telegram. It was even more intense in the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, when it surged 635 percent. The data can be…
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Children, Prepare for a Toy-Scarce Christmas
President Trump has a message for the children living in the United States: prepare to sacrifice in the name of your country. He was responding to questions at the end of one of his cabinet meeting marathons when he finally admitted that, yes, his tariff policies and the trade war he unleashed with China may…
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Trump Administration Considers Ways to Encourage American Women to Have More Children
The White House is evaluating ideas on how to persuade Americans to get married and have more children, a sign that the Trump administration intends to adopt a new cultural agenda promoted by many of its right-wing allies to reverse the decline in the birth rate and promote conservative family values. One of the proposals…
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Trump Appeals to Supreme Court to End Birthright Citizenship
The government of President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court in a series of emergency appeals on Thursday (13) to allow him to move forward with plans to end birthright citizenship. The Trump administration argues that lower courts went too far in issuing nationwide injunctions blocking the controversial policy, and asked the higher judges to…
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Controversies Surrounding Disney’s New Film, ‘Snow White’
Disney’s live-action adaptation of Snow White will premiere this Friday, March 15, in the United States. In an unusual move, Disney has decided to scale back its traditional grand premiere in Los Angeles. Starring Rachel Zegler and directed by Marc Webb, Snow White has generated a lot of buzz since it was announced. The project…