The UN’s top humanitarian official in the country Matthias Schmale informed that severe hunger affects 4.3 million people in Nigeria’s Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states. The number of children under five at risk of life-threatening severe acute malnutrition has doubled in one year to reach 700,000. Describing the situation in the region, Mr. Schmale said:…
Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Virginia Gamba unveiled the Secretary-General’s latest annual report, for 2022, which showed there were 27,180 grave violations overall, an increase from the previous year. The recorded violations only refer to verified information, with the likely toll much higher, and cover four categories: recruitment and use of children into…
“The tendency of family courts to dismiss the history of domestic violence and abuse in custody cases, especially where mothers and/or children have brought forward credible allegations of domestic abuse, including coercive control, physical or sexual abuse is unacceptable,” said Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, in a report to the Human Rights Council…
After the attack on the school, the police have cordoned off the area. 37 children were killed in a late-night terrorist attack at a high school in Uganda. A national police spokesman blamed the attack on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a subsidiary of ISIS. Uganda People’s Defense Forces spokesperson Felix Kolaigi said that 37…
Photo courtesy of Twitter Details of the struggle for survival of 4 young children, including an infant, have emerged after 40 days in the dangerous Amazon jungle in Colombia. According to foreign media, these children were victims of a plane crash in the south of the country and the mother of these children survived for…
Government teacher fired for sexually abusing 16 children in Tunisia; Photo: File Tunis City: A brutal teacher in Tunisia sexually assaulted 16 students aged 8 to 12 while working at a public educational institution. According to the Arab News Agency, a government teacher in Tunisia has been dismissed for abusing innocent children and an investigation…
“Being a child in Haiti today is harsher and more dangerous than it ever has been in living memory. The threats and hardships children face are simply unimaginable. They desperately need protection and support,” said UNICEF Haiti Representative Bruno Maes. Displacement and violence Children find themselves in the crossfire, or directly targeted, as armed groups…
Kidnapping and kidney extraction of mentally challenged children has been revealed in Rawalpindi. A special child, a resident of Rawalpindi Adiala Road, was kidnapped and the kidnappers removed Qamar Zaman’s right kidney. On the other hand, Rawalpindi police station Morgah started the investigation. According to sources, the condition of the Rawalpindi special child is deteriorating….
On Monday’s World Day against Child Labour, the International Labour Organization (ILO) shared these staggering numbers as a reminder of the urgent need to end this practice. ILO’s Director-General Gilbert Houngbo said that for the first time in 20 years, child labour is on the rise. “Child labour rarely happens because parents are bad, or…
Bogota: Children who went missing in Colombia 40 days ago have been found alive in the Amazon jungle. According to global media reports, four indigenous children who had been missing for more than a month in the Amazon forests of Colombia were found alive and taken to the capital Bogota on Saturday morning. Children who…
