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Closing gender gap, ending child marriage key priorities, says Ghanaian President

New York, Oct 1 (JEN): Spotlighting the importance his country places on gender equality, the President of Ghana told the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday that a major priority will closing the “vast” gaps between men and women through, among other efforts, providing decent education for girls and working to end child marriage. more

UNICEF advocate Orlando Bloom urges protection of refugee and migrant children

New York, Sept 30 (JEN): Actor and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Orlando Bloom called for greater protection for tens of thousands of refugee and migr ...

Crime against children on rise in WB, data reveals

Kolkata, Sept 28 (JEN): West Bengal is not as safe for children as it is often thought to be, particularly for minor girls, if one were to go by the data recently published by National Crime ...

International push needed to end child rights violations in Yemen – UN official

New York, Sept 22 (JEN) Describing the current situation in Yemen as “beyond tragic” for all affected by the hostilities, a senior United Nations official said it is “ever more importa ...

Simple act of playing represents grave danger for children in Syria: UNICEF

New York, Sept 17 (JEN): The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has condemned in the strongest terms mortar attacks on civilian areas of Aleppo, Syria, which reportedly killed at leas ...

UNICEF advocate David Beckham issues call to end violence against children

New YOrk, Sept 16 (JEN): David Beckham, Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), is championing a letter signed by 18 child survivors of violence that calls on ...

Millions of children in Syria deprived of education: UNICEF

New York, Sept 16 (JEN): As children around the world return to school, there are more than two million in Syria who will not be able to join them, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNIC ...

France and Bulgaria must halt forced evictions of Roma: UN rights chief

New York, Sept 12 (JEN): Ongoing forced evictions of Roma and Travellers in a number of European States, including France and Bulgaria, are cause for serious concern, the United Nations huma ...

UN envoy unveils plan to get 1 million Syrian children in school in 21 days

New York, Sept 11 (IBNS): With more than 4 million children having left Syria – half of them for Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey – in a “crisis of biblical proportions,” the United Nation ...

Child mortality rates plunge by more than half since 1990, UN report

New York, Sep 10 (JEN): Child mortality rates have plummeted to less than half of what they were in 1990, but it is not enough to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of a two-thirds r ...