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Children in Africa five times less likely to learn basics: New report
African leaders gathered in Mauritius on Thursday, to mull solutions to the education gap highlighted by a new UN education agency report which shows children…
Finland: Rights of Finnish children detained in Syria camps violated
Finland’s failure to repatriate its own child citizens held for years in camps under life-threating conditions in northeast Syria, is a violation of their rights,…
Nearly 1,000 children killed or injured in Ukraine but real number likely higher: UNICEF
Nearly 1,000 boys and girls have been killed or injured in the war in Ukraine, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported…
New EU strategy to protect and empower children in the online world
On Wednesday, the Commission has adopted a new European strategy for a Better Internet for Kids (BIK+), to improve age-appropriate digital services and to ensure…
WHO updates guidelines on COVID-related organ inflammation in children
Children who have developed organ inflammation linked to COVID-19 infection should be given steroid treatment in hospital, the World Health Organization, (WHO), said on Tuesday….
No place for children in conflict, UN chief tells Security Council
The disregard for children’s rights amid war and upheaval “is shocking and heartbreaking”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday during a high-level open…
Soaring e-waste affects the health of millions of children, WHO warns
Effective and binding action is urgently required to protect the millions of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide whose health is jeopardized by…
Disability in children and adolescents must be integrated into the global health agenda
Childhood disability is not a priority in health systems. A recently published article in the BMJ by Cieza and colleagues argues why this needs to…
UNESCO warns of a generational catastrophe
In the year since the pandemic started, schooling was disrupted for an average of twenty-five weeks, due to complete or partial school closures. As a…
Children from poor backgrounds may face educational barriers in low- and middle-income countries
New research published in the British Educational Research Journal suggests a very strong association between socio-economic background and educational attainment throughout children’s schooling in 4…
Fifteen times more children crossing the Panama jungle towards the USA in the last four years
The number of children migrating up north through the dangerous Darien rainforest between Colombia and Panama has increased more than fifteen-fold in the last four…
Mental health alert for 332 million children linked to COVID-19 lockdown policies: UNICEF
The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, says the mental health of millions of children worldwide has been put at risk, with at least one in seven…
UNICEF urges repatriation of all children in Syria’s Al-Hol camp following deadly fire
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Sunday urged all countries to repatriate and safely reintegrate their young nationals being held at Syria’s largest camp for…
Children among dead following bomb attacks in northern Syria
Several people, including four children, are reported dead, with many more injured, following a weekend of deadly bomb attacks in towns in northern rural Aleppo,…
Children cannot afford another year of school disruption
UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore : As we enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and as cases continue to soar around the world,…
Yemeni children suffer record rates of acute malnutrition, putting ‘entire generation’ at risk
Yemeni children are suffering acute malnutrition at unprecedented rates as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis grinds on and funding falls far short of what is…
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