UNICEF appeals for end to ‘war on children’ in Syria and Yemen
Aug 14, 2018, at 09:08 am
New York, Aug 14 (IBNS): Attacks against children caught in the conflicts in Syria and Yemen must stop, the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, appealed on Monday.
UN report says militant groups using children to spread terror in India's Kashmir and Maoist regions
Jul 04, 2018, at 11:48 am
Washington, July 4 (IBNS): According to a report published by the United Nations, terror and extremist outfits are recruiting children to wreck havoc in India's trouble torn states like Jammu and Kashmir and other Maoist insurgency hit regions.
Jul 04, 2018, at 07:50 am
New York, July 4 (IBNS): The relentless conflict in Yemen has pushed a nation already on the brink “deep into the abyss,” said the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) chief on Tuesday, after returning from a four-day visit to the war-torn country.
UN agency chiefs issue ‘call to action’ on behalf of refugee children
Jun 21, 2018, at 07:53 am
New York, June 21 (IBNS): Protecting refugee children is “a test of our shared humanity,” two top United Nations officials said on Wednesday.
Jun 19, 2018, at 08:47 am
New York, June 19 (IBNS): As part of his final global update, the United Nations human rights chief on Monday voiced his deep concern over recently-adopted United States border protection policies that have seen hundreds of migrant children forcibly separated from their parents.
‘Enough is enough; stop attacks on children’ underscores UNICEF
May 16, 2018, at 02:57 pm
New York, May 16 (IBNS): With defenceless children increasingly targeted in conflicts , the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called on all warring parties around the globe to comply with international law and keep them safe from harm.
Children ‘are dying’ now in DRC’s Kasai from malnutrition, warns UNICEF
May 12, 2018, at 12:45 pm
New York, May 12 (IBNS): 400,000 children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) “are at risk of death” in the Kasais region from food shortages caused by conflict and displacement, according to a senior UN official who has just returned from the area, expressing shock at what he had witnessed.
Ukraine: 200,000 children forced to learn in bullet-riddled classrooms
May 05, 2018, at 01:34 pm
New York, May 5 (IBNS): Some 200,000 girls and boys in eastern Ukraine are commuting to schools whose classroom walls are often riddled with bullets, and playgrounds scattered with metal remnants of war.
Children bear the brunt as violence escalates in Gaza - UNICEF
May 05, 2018, at 01:29 pm
New York, May 5 (IBNS): Highlighting the devastating impact of the humanitarian crisis and increasing violence on Gaza's children, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called on all parties with influence on the ground to prioritize their protection.
Apr 25, 2018, at 01:18 pm
New York, Apr 25 (IBNS): At the start of World Immunization Week , the United Nations on Tuesday said that while vaccines are protecting more children than ever, more countries need to make immunization a priority, because more than one million children still die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases.
Feb 10, 2018, at 01:52 pm
New York, Feb 10 (JEN): Asylum seekers are reporting sexual harassment and violence at some sub-standard reception centres on Greek islands – where even bathing during the daytime can be dangerous – despite Government measures to address the dire living conditions, the United Nations refugee agency warned on Friday.
Venezuela: Economic woes worsening malnutrition among children, warns UNICEF
Jan 27, 2018, at 01:21 pm
New York, Jan 27 (JEN): Amid growing food insecurity and rising malnutrition among children on the back of a protracted economic crisis in Venezuela, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday called on all actors for rapid and coordinated assistance efforts to reach those most in need.
One in four Iraqi children impacted by conflict, poverty; education key for lasting peace – UNICEF
Jan 20, 2018, at 12:42 pm
New York, Jan 20 (JEN): More than four million children have been impacted by extreme violence in Iraq, many robbed of their childhood and forced to fight on the frontlines, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Friday.
Children are the face of conflict-fuelled humanitarian tragedy in South Sudan – UNICEF
Dec 16, 2017, at 04:50 am
New York, Dec 15(Just Earth News): South Sudan's children are facing a raft of daily horrors and deprivations and urgently require a peaceful, protective environment, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Friday, warning that “anything less, places children and women at even greater risk of grave violations and abuse.”
Children not a ‘bargaining chip’ in tug of war between Syrian parties – UN advisor
Dec 08, 2017, at 09:57 am
New York, Dec 8(Just Earth News): The United Nations advisor for Syria said Thursday that obstacles stopping humanitarians from delivering aid and carrying out medical evacuations in besieged parts of the war-ravaged country are not being lifted, and “children are dying” as a result.
Oct 27, 2017, at 04:23 am
New York, Oct 26(Just Earth News): If Africa is to keep pace with an unprecedented demographic transition – African’s under-18 population will reach 750 million by 2030 – scaled-up investment in health, education and women’s protection and empowerment will be needed or the continent will face a ‘bleak’ future, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported Thursday.
More than half of children and youth worldwide 'not learning' – UNESCO
Sep 22, 2017, at 04:27 pm
New York, Sept 22(Just Earth News): About 617 million children and adolescents worldwide are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics, signalling “a learning crisis†that could threaten progress on global development goals, a report from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) shows.
UNICEF: Decades of progress for children at risk across Middle East and North Africa
Sep 12, 2017, at 05:00 am
New York, Sept 11(Just Earth News): Nearly one-in-five children across the Middle East and North Africa – over 90 per cent of whom live in conflict-affected countries – need immediate humanitarian assistance, according to new analysis by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
More than 350,000 children vaccinated against polio in hard to reach areas of Syria – UN
Aug 19, 2017, at 12:14 pm
New York, Aug 19(Just Earth News): A United Nations polio vaccination campaign in Syria has provided protection to more than 355,000 children under age five in two governorates, where violence has made access especially difficult.
'Don't turn a blind eye' to dire situation of children in DR Congo's Kasai region – UNICEF
Aug 08, 2017, at 04:32 am
New York, Aug 7(Just Earth News): The world must not turn a blind eye to the dire situation of children and families in the Grand Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday, stressing that nothing can justify terrible acts of abuse against women and children.
Majority of children fleeing to Europe just want to get away, UNICEF reports
Jul 26, 2017, at 04:54 am
New York, July 25(Just Earth News): Facing violence and trauma in Libya and other countries, thousands of children decided to flee by themselves, seeking to get away but not necessarily aiming for Europe, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesdayreported.
Children increasingly targeted for murder, rape in Central African Republic – UNICEF
Jul 19, 2017, at 04:16 am
New York, July 18(Just Earth News): Renewed fighting in the Central African Republic (CAR) is increasingly targeting children, while there are concerns that the humanitarian needs in the country could escalate to levels not seen since the crisis four years ago, United Nations humanitarian officials on Wednesday said.
Children in West and Central Africa moving in greater numbers than ever before, finds UN report
Jul 06, 2017, at 04:53 am
New York, July 5(Just Earth News): With more than seven million children in West and Central Africa uprooted from their homes each year due to violence, poverty and climate change, and projections that this number will continue to rise, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has called for greater efforts to ensure that migrant and displaced children are protected from exploitation and abuse.
Children hardest hit as cholera spreads in war-torn Yemen – UNICEF
Jun 15, 2017, at 01:46 pm
New York, June 15(Just Earth News): As the outbreak of cholera in Yemen continues to spread at an alarming rate – with terrible impact on children – the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has called for immediate support to enable the country's health workers respond or risk even more deaths from the deadly disease.
Half the world’s poor are children, says study
Jun 05, 2017, at 11:37 pm
London, June 5 (IBNS): New Oxford University research on global poverty reveals the extent of the challenges facing the UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals for the eradication of child poverty.
Despite progress, life for children in Myanmar's remote areas remains a struggle, UNICEF warns
May 24, 2017, at 04:58 am
New York, May 23(Just Earth News): The benefits of Myanmar's economic growth, reform and reconciliation efforts have not yet reached children in the country's remote, conflict-affected areas, leaving an estimated 2.2 million children in need of better humanitarian assistance, a United Nations report has revealed.
Europe: 24,600 refugee children 'in limbo' at risk of mental distress, UNICEF warns
May 05, 2017, at 09:29 pm
New York, May 5 (Just Earth News): Nearly 75,000 refugees and migrants, including an estimated 24,600 children, currently stranded in Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Western Balkans are at risk of psychosocial distress caused by living in a protracted state of limbo, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Thursday.
Somalia: 1.4M children to suffer acute malnutrition this year – UN agency
May 03, 2017, at 03:51 pm
Washington, May 3 (Just Earth News): Some 1.4 million children in Somalia are projected to be acutely malnourished this year, an increase of 50 per cent over last year, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today announced.
'Alarming' rise in use of children in 'suicide' attacks by Boko Haram in Lake Chad region – UNICEF
Apr 13, 2017, at 04:34 am
New York, Apr 12(Just Earth News): The use of children, particularly girls, by the Boko Haram terrorist group in violent attacks in the Lake Chad region has seen an “alarming†surge in 2017, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has reported.
Millions of children in Yemen vaccinated against polio through UN-backed campaign
Apr 11, 2017, at 02:05 pm
New York, Apr 11(Just Earth News): Despite daunting challenges, United Nations agencies and partners in war-torn Yemen have completed a major nationwide polio inoculation campaign, vaccinating nearly five million children under the age of five against the paralyzing disease.