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New York, May 5 (JEN): The United Nations has hailed South Sudan’s ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as the African nation takes a critical step towards protecting and promoting the rights of all children. more
UN launches #SaveKidsLives campaign to boost road safety for children

New York, May 5 (JEN): Each day some 500 children die from road traffic crashes, thousands more are injured and the situation is only getting worse, the United Nations warned on Monday as it ...

Irrfan Khan bats for children’s education

Mumbai, May 2 (JEN) Actor Irrfan Khan joined hands with consumer products company Procter & Gamble (P&G) to visit one of their schools in the national capital where he shared some of his ch ...

Children in 15 of 26 industrial countries lack access to rights education: UN survey

New York, May 1 (JEN): Education programmes in 15 industrialized countries fail to include child rights education in their schools, according to a new United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICE ...

UN official in South Sudan urges release of remaining child soldiers

New York, Apr 29 (JEN): The United Nations Special Representative for South Sudan, Ellen Margrethe Løj, travelled to Pibor town in the eastern part of the country, where she met some of the ...

UN alarmed by malnutrition among children displaced from Yarmouk camp

New York, Apr 27 (JEN): As the United Nations agency tasked with supporting Palestine refugees continued on Sunday to provide essential humanitarian assistance to civilians who have been dis ...

UNICEF welcomes final release of child soldiers by armed group in South Sudan

New York, Apr 25 (JEN): Militants in South Sudan have handed over to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) a final group of 283 children in what the agency described as “a small piec ...

UNICEF urges Australia, Cambodia to protect rights of child refugees in Nauru

New York, Apr 18 (JEN): The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) raised concerns on Friday regarding reported decisions by the Governments of Australia and Cambodia to start transferrin ...

Need to get 21 million children into school in Middle East, North Africa: UNICEF

New York, Apr 16 (JEN): Despite impressive progress in raising school enrolment over the past decade, one in four children and young adolescents in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) ar ...

UN delivers much needed humanitarian supplies to vulnerable groups Syria

New York, Apr 15 (JEN): Despite huge challenges in getting access, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has managed to deliver much-needed humanitarian supplies to Qamishli in north ...