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New York: The global community needs to say with one voice that “attacks on schools must stop”, the UN chief urged a virtual event on Thursday commemorating the International Day to Protect Education from Attack.  more
Syria: Prevent ‘entire generation from being lost’, urges UN humanitarian chief

New York: Some 13.4 million Syrians throughout the beleaguered country are in need of assistance, the UN humanitarian office said on Saturday, calling for “greater access and expand ...

Twitter hosting child porn content in India: DisInfo Lab Report

New Delhi: OSINT group DisInfo Lab has revealed in its new report that Twitter is hosting porn contents, which also includes child porn, that violates Information Technology rules in Indi ...

COVID jabs needed for educators and kids to keep schools open: WHO, UNICEF

As the school year begins for millions of children in Europe and Central Asia, UN health and child experts on Monday issued a series of COVID-19 risk reduction measures to ensure that in- ...

Afghan children ‘at greater risk than ever’, top UNICEF official warns

New Yok: With the needs of Afghan children greater than ever before, the world “cannot abandon them now”, a senior official with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on ...

More children than ever before live as migrants or refugees, outside their birth countries – UNICEF

New York: More girls and boys than ever are on the move, with 35.5 million having lived outside their country of birth in 2020 and an additional 23.3 million displaced internally, accordi ...

One billion children at ‘extremely high risk’ of the impacts of the climate crisis: UNICEF

New York: Young people living in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau are the most at risk of the impacts of climate change, threatening their health, ed ...

100,000 children in Tigray at risk of death from malnutrition: UNICEF

New York: More than 100,000 children in Tigray, Ethiopia, could suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition in the next 12 months, a tenfold jump over average annual levels, UN ...

COVID-19: Education replaced by shuttered schools, violence, teenage pregnancy

New York: A culture of “safety, friends and food” at school has been replaced by “anxiety, violence, and teenage pregnancy”, with remote learning out of reach for ...

Afghanistan: 29-year-old mother now facing difficulty in feeding her children after Taliban killed her husband

Kabul: It seems that women have already started facing the brunt of Taliban's resurgence in Afghanistan as is evident from the life of 29-year-old pregnant mother Chamal whose husband ...