Society Today

We see them on the crowded streets of Bucharest city center, around railway stations or at supermarket entrances.They are the child beggars, who unfortunately are in large numbers in Romania.

Where do Bucharesters head to when they want to escape the disquieting life of the capital city?

In what has become a worrying phenomenon, almost 80,000 children in Romania are growing up without their parents, who went to work abroad, leaving them in the care of relatives and friends.

Romania has a number of state schools that are run by certain churches, the so called confessional schools, which, while teaching state curricula, have something different too

SHE, for “Strong, HIV positive and Empowered Women, is a European programme initiated in 2010.

Many heritage buildings in Bucharest are deteriorating at a fast pace.

For most university graduates in Romania, a job in a multinational corporation is the best alternative to emigrating.

Despite seeing many changes in the last 20 years, the Romanian undergraduate system has often been criticised.

40,000 Romanian teachers have left the education system in the last three years. Find out why.

According to a Eurostat survey made public in 2011, targeting the period between 2008 and 2009, the percentage of obese adults across the European...

Adult and child obesity are a major problem in the European Union, with Romania ranking 3rd in terms of child obesity in Europe.

Playing is very important for the social, emotional, physical and cognitive development of children.

School dropout, an important issue for the European institutions, has become an important topic in Romania as well

12 young orphans are taught to cook as part of a project to help them find employment when they leave their placement centre.

This year, in early summer, just as every year since 2002, civil society awarded prizes to its elites.