Attacks that occurred between January and March left 25 children dead, including a two-month-old, said the agency. During the first three weeks of April, nine children lost their lives during attacks. UNICEF‘s Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, Regina De Dominicis, said during a visit to the war-torn country that children and families are…
UNICEF warned that as urban warfare increases, the use of weapons designed for open battlefields are now a common reality in cities, towns and villages, with devastating effects on their young residents. Between 2018 and 2022, explosive weapons were responsible for 49.8 per cent of the more than 47,500 instances of children killed and maimed…
Students in the capital Port-au-Prince have missed hundreds of hours of class time over the past year and now, now, more than one million Haitians are facing emergency levels of acute food insecurity, according to a new UN-backed report. As deadly threats to school security continue in Port-au-Prince, and northern parts of the Artibonite department, UN…
(Photo: Screen grab) Lahore: 32 young children were rescued from an illegal orphanage. Child Protection and Welfare Bureau rescued 32 young children from an illegal orphanage in Gajumta area of Lahore. Prior to the operation, the team visited a family orphanage set up in the Milat Town area, where young and innocent children were kept…
Painting a grim landscape of the world’s war zones, Virginia Gamba, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, briefed ambassadors, citing grave concerns, from war-torn Gaza to gang-ravaged Haiti, where famine looms amid rampant violence and displacement. Denying aid access has long-lasting effects on children’s wellbeing and development, she said. Virginia Gamba, Special…
Photo: Express News Lahore: The registration process for the admissions is going on in Tahafs Darsgah, established for transgender children near Wide Life Park Jallo, Lahore, and the classes will start here very soon. Transgender children will be taught here from primary to O level along with various skills while free accommodation will also be…
Karachi: A passer-by was killed in an encounter between police and robbers near Ayub Goth river in Sohrab Goth area. According to SHO Sohrab Goth Shehzad Ilyas, two suspects on a motorcycle were fleeing after looting in Ayub Goth when the police officers on patrol spotted the suspects. When the police tried to arrest the…
This in effect abolishes the monitoring of UN sanctions against the country, more commonly known as North Korea, blocking the extension of the panel for another year. Russia’s Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said the sanctions regime adopted with the intention of preventing nuclear weapons proliferation, was losing its relevance and also “to a great extent, detached…
Bandits targeted two youths and a woman in Arangi Town in three days—File: Photo Karachi: A mother of 4 children was killed by robbers in Bihar Colony area of Orangi Town, after which 3 citizens including a woman lost their lives during a robbery in Orangi Town in three days. According to Express News, in…
The continuing violence came despite an immediate ceasefire call for the remainder of Ramadan from the Security Council on Monday, prompting urgent appeals from UN aid agencies for the resolution to be respected immediately, to prevent more people dying. Speaking from Rafah in southern Gaza, UN Children’s Fund spokesperson James Elder said that 13,750 children…
