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New York, Dec 13 (JEN) The scale of the crisis facing children in South Sudan is “staggering” according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), which warned on Friday that the future of an entire generation of the country’s children was being “stolen” by the year-long conflict. more
Satyarthi urges world to globalise compassion for children

Oslo, Dec 10 (JEN): India's 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi on Wednesday called upon the people of the world to "globalise the compassion for children" and said he represents ...

Will continue fight until every child goes to school: Malala

Oslo, Dec 10 (JEN): Pakistan's Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai while receiving her award along with India's Kailash Satyarthi on Wednesday said the world will no more be satisfied ...

Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi receive Nobel Peace Prize

Oslo, Dec 10 (JEN) Conflicting neighbours India and Pakistan on Wednesday witnessed their child rights activists -Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai- sharing the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize ...

Trafficking in children on the rise, says new UN report

New York, Nov 25 (JEN) One in three known victims of human trafficking is a child, and girls and women are particularly targeted and forced into “modern slavery,” according to the 2014 ...

Koel Mullick, Rupam Islam celebrate 25 years of CRC

Kolkata, Nov 23 (JEN): On completion of 25 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a children’s event was organized in Kolkata which was attended by Tollywood actress Koe ...

Sectarian clashes displace thousands in south-eastern Central African Republic, UN warns

New York, Nov 22 (JEN) An upsurge in violent attacks this week between communities in a town near the Central African Republic’s border with South Sudan has left at least 10 people injured ...

Leveraging innovation key to advancing progress on child rights-UNICEF

New York, Nov 21 (JEN) Despite progress in advancing child rights over the past 25 years, including a marked reduction in the number of children dying before the age of five and increased ac ...

UN spotlights children's rights as world gears up to mark 25th anniversary of landmark treaty

New York, Nov 20 (JEN): As the global human rights community readies to celebrate tomorrow the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United Natio ...

Marking World Pneumonia Day, UN calls for greater efforts in preventing child deaths

New York, Nov 13 (JEN): Although significant declines in child deaths from pneumonia demonstrate that strategies to defeat the disease are working, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNI ...