Photo courtesy of Google A mother who killed her 5 children by slitting their throats in Belgium chose death for herself 16 years later. According to foreign media, on February 28, 2007, a 57-year-old woman killed one of her sons and four daughters by cutting their throats with a knife in the kitchen. According to…
Afshan Khan, UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, briefed journalists in Geneva on her recent visit to the region, where she saw first-hand some of the destruction. “Children in Türkiye are at risk of developing anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder; they need to be able to resume their education, and they urgently…
Alima from Burkina Faso wants to be a police officer, Awa from Mali dreams of being a nurse, and 11-year-old María Gabriela from Ecuador hopes to go to veterinary school. Although their names are not real – to protect them – their dreams are. Right now, 222 million young dreamers like Alima, Awa and María…
Lending his support to a call for more funding for education in emergencies spearheaded by the UN global fund Education Cannot Wait (ECW) the UN chief insisted in a video message that no-one should be denied their chance to learn. A full 222 million children today experience blighted education today, Mr. Guterres noted. To help them, 18…
“Even without verified numbers it’s tragically clear the number of children killed, the number of children orphaned is going to keep on rising”,” said UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder. In Türkiye, the total number of children living in the 10 provinces before the emergency was 4.6 million, and 2.5 million in Syria. Growing…
A church in Lisbon, file photo Since 1950, almost 5,000 children have been sexually abused by Christian priests in Portugal. Last year, after hearing complaints from 500 victims, an inquiry commission issued a detailed report. The head of the commission, Pedro Strecht, while addressing the press conference in Lisbon, said that 4 thousand 815 victims…
Virginia Gamba, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict, who is currently preparing her latest report, said data gathered so far reveals that trends showing high levels of violations are continuing. Nearly 24,000 grave violations were verified in 2021, the last reporting year. Most involved killing and maiming, as well as recruitment and…
social media A city bus collided with a daycare center in Laval, Canada, killing two children in the accident. According to the police, 6 children of the daycare have been injured in the accident and are being treated at the hospital. The bus driver has been arrested, charged with manslaughter and reckless driving. Police say…
Photos courtesy of Foreign Media Between Sunday and Monday night, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the entire region, including Turkey and Syria, as a result of which thousands of people were killed and thousands of buildings turned into piles of rubble. In Turkey, rescue teams pulled 2 children and a woman alive from the rubble of…
“We are very disturbed that in recent years the residential school system for Tibetan children appears to act as a mandatory large-scale programme intended to assimilate Tibetans into majority Han culture, contrary to international human rights standards,” they said in a statement. Erosion of identity Residential schools provide educational content and an environment centred around…
