New York, Feb 12 (JEN) The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is applauding the release of another 300 children from an armed group in South Sudan – the second such UN-backed demob ...

New York, Feb 12 (JEN) African girls and boys continue to be subjected to distressing levels of physical, sexual and emotional violence despite the significant legal and policy measures ado ...

New Delhi, Feb 10 (JEN) The International Labour Organization (ILO) on Monday spotlighted the fight against child labour in Kosovo, where, it said, children as young as 10 are forced to work ...

New York, Jan 30 (JEN)The United Nations on Thursday launched its biggest ever humanitarian appeal to fund globe-spanning responses to emergencies and threats “stalking children in ways ne ...

New York, Jan 21 (JEN) Women and children make up the vast majority of the latest wave of refugees fleeing violence in northern Nigeria, the United Nations Children’s Fund warned on Tuesd ...

New York, Jan 14 (JEN) A newly published atlas outlining the vast socio-economic discrepancies separating millions of Chinese rural children from their urban counterparts has been released i ...

New York, Jan 7 (IBNS) Recent school closures in Raqqa and Deir-ez-Zour governorates and parts of rural Aleppo in Syria have disrupted the education of some 670,000 children of primary and l ...

New York, Dec 31(JEN) The conflict in South Sudan has seriously hampered the protection of children, increasing their vulnerability dramatically, says a new report published this week by Uni ...

New York, Dec 20 (JEN): In eastern Ukraine, the situation remains ‘extremely serious’ for more than 1.7 million children affected by the escalating crisis, the United Nations Children’ ...