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The High Court trial of a woman accused of killing a three-year-old boy has been abandoned in Auckland.

Haiti has charged 10 American missionaries with child abduction and criminal conspiracy for allegedly trying to take children illegally out of the country after a devastating earthquake in January.

Doubts are being cast on a claim by a group of Americans that 33 children they were trying to take into the Dominican Republic from Haiti by bus were orphans. Some are thought to have at least one…

American doctors in Haiti have expressed concern about a decision to suspend evacuation flights to the United States for critically injured Haitians.

An American Samoa lawmaker has introduced legislation to allow every mother, who is a government worker, a maximum of 30 days paid leave during the six-week period after the birth...

The Marshall Island's acting chief planner says the country needs to adopt a more aggressive public health campaign to improve child mortality rates in parts of the nation. New data...

New Zealand's acting Head of Mission in Fiji will leave that country on Thursday, after being expelled by the interim regime. Audio

Singer Elton John wants to adopt a boy, aged 14 months, from an orphanage in Ukraine. He was visiting the country with his Aids foundation.

The acting principal Family Court judge wants the law changed so de facto and same-sex couples can adopt children.

The new Children's Commissioner, John Angus, is calling for more action to help reduce child abuse.

Pop icon Madonna has failed in her bid to adopt a second child from Malawi after a court rejected her application, warning that the case could open the door to trafficking in children.

A Colombian man has appeared in court accused of imprisoning his daughter and fathering eight children with her.

The Labour Party says the national testing of childen for numeracy and literacy is controversial and it will vote against a bill enabling it.

Papua New Guinea is embracing the One Laptop Per Child project as a key part of its long-term plan to boost basic education and economic development. The acting Prime Minister,...

The organisation, Save the Children, in Fiji says the country needs to adopt a whole-community approach to curb child sex prostitution and abuse. A 2006 report by the organisation showed...

The Federal Attorney-General's Department in Australia has been asked to investigate claims that Indian children have been stolen from their parents and sold for adoption in Australia.

The chief executive of Samoa's ministry of justice and courts administration is upset by claims that Samoan babies were smuggled to the United States, and says he believes all adoptions...

Operators of a private adoption agency in Utah have been accused of duping parents in Samoa into giving them their children and then falsely describing the youngsters as orphans to...

The Kiribati Protestant Church is to set up a division within the church to deal with societal issues. The church's general-secretary, the Rev. Bureieta Karaiti, says the general assembly paved...

The House of Representatives in American Samoa is reviewing legislation that would remove current restrictions on the territory's adoption laws. The bill would remove the ban on non blood related...

The head of the Save the Children Fund in Fiji says girls are being sexually exploited because of poverty, a lack of education and the growth of the tourism sector.

The head of the Save the Children Fund in Fiji says girls are being sexually exploited because of poverty, a lack of education and the growth of the tourism sector.

An American Samoan district court judge, John Ward, says there are serious problems with current adoption laws and the territory is losing children off island because of them. He says...