52 million+ children estimated to be out of school, UNICEF says 2024 one of the worst years for children in conflict
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52 million+ children estimated to be out of school, UNICEF says 2024 one of the worst years for children in conflict

Hindustan Times  

United Nations Children's Fund has called 2024 one of the worst years in the organisation’s history for children living in conflict areas, with a record number of children having their rights violated, including being killed, injured, out of school, missing vaccines, and being critically malnourished. Children in conflict-hit areas are having their rights violated, including being killed, injured, out of school, missing vaccines, and being critically malnourished, UNICEF said According to UNICEF, the number is only expected to grow. “The destruction of educational infrastructure and insecurity near schools have exacerbated an already dire situation for children’s education in these regions.” UNICEF said malnutrition among children in conflict zones has risen to alarming levels due to food systems disruption, population displacement and obstruction to humanitarian access. Exposure to violence, destruction and loss of loved ones can manifest in children through reactions such as depression, nightmares and difficulty sleeping, aggressive or withdrawn behaviour, sadness and fear, among others,” UNICEF said.

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52 million children out of school, 1 in 6 living in war zones: Unicef
1 week, 3 days ago

52 million children out of school, 1 in 6 living in war zones: Unicef

India Today  

The year 2024 has been one of the darkest years for children trapped in conflict zones, says UNICEF. “The destruction of educational infrastructure and insecurity near schools have exacerbated an already dire situation for children’s education in these regions,” UNICEF stated. MALNUTRITION AND LACK OF HEALTHCARE RISE Malnutrition among children in conflict-hit areas has reached alarming levels due to disrupted …

One in six children live in conflict zones this year: UNICEF
1 week, 5 days ago

One in six children live in conflict zones this year: UNICEF

Al Jazeera  

More children than ever have been forcibly displaced from their homes due to conflict, according to the UN agency. About 473 million, or more than one in six children, are estimated to live in conflict areas worldwide, according to the United Nations children’s agency. “By almost every measure, 2024 has been one of the worst years on record for children …

Over 1.17 million out-of-school children in India, 784,228 in Uttar Pradesh
4 weeks, 2 days ago

Over 1.17 million out-of-school children in India, 784,228 in Uttar Pradesh

India Today  

In the first eight months of the 2024-25 fiscal year, over 1.17 million children across India have been identified as out-of-school, according to data presented in the Lok Sabha on Monday. The Union Minister of State for Education, Jayant Chaudhary, revealed that Uttar Pradesh reported the highest number of Out-of-School Children at 784,228, followed by Jharkhand with 65,070 and Assam …

1.17 million children identified as ‘Out of School’, govt tells LS
4 weeks, 2 days ago

1.17 million children identified as ‘Out of School’, govt tells LS

Hindustan Times  

Around 1.17 million children across India have been identified as those not enrolled in primary, secondary and senior secondary education, or Out of School Children, for the year 2024-25, the Union government informed the Lok Sabha on Monday. Uttar Pradesh was followed by Jharkhand and Assam, which reported 65,070 and 63,848 OoSC, respectively, for 2024-25, according to data provided by …

Children in India are among the most vulnerable to climate change: UNICEF report
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Children in India are among the most vulnerable to climate change: UNICEF report

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 26, 2024 16:05 IST - 5 MINS READ Nearly half the world’s children—around one billion—live in countries facing high risk from climate change and environmental hazards, warns The State of the World’s Children 2024 report by UNICEF. Released on World Children’s Day, November 20, the 2024 edition of the report, titled ‘From here to 2050’, studies the …

Climate to take toll on African children
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Climate to take toll on African children

China Daily  

Children in sub-Saharan Africa are among the most at risk of facing the impacts of extreme climate crises. A study titled "The State of the World's Children 2024: The Future of Childhood in a Changing World", released by UNICEF on Tuesday, predicts that the 2050s will see children in sub-Saharan Africa increasingly exposed to extreme weather, including extreme heat waves …

Climate to take toll on African children
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Climate to take toll on African children

China Daily  

Children in sub-Saharan Africa are among the most at risk of facing the impacts of extreme climate crises. A study titled "The State of the World's Children 2024: The Future of Childhood in a Changing World", released by UNICEF on Tuesday, predicts that the 2050s will see children in sub-Saharan Africa increasingly exposed to extreme weather, including extreme heat waves …

Gaza enters its 2nd school year without schooling. The cost could be heavy for kids’ futures
4 months ago

Gaza enters its 2nd school year without schooling. The cost could be heavy for kids’ futures

Associated Press  

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — This week, when they would normally be going back to school, the Qudeh family’s children stumbled with armfuls of rubble they collected from a destroyed building to sell for use in building graves in the cemetery that is now their home in southern Gaza. We are forced to in order to get a living.” As …

Gaza enters its 2nd school year without schooling. The cost could be heavy for kids' futures
4 months ago

Gaza enters its 2nd school year without schooling. The cost could be heavy for kids' futures

The Independent  

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Myanmar’s civil war has seen a devastating increase in attacks on schools, researchers say
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Myanmar’s civil war has seen a devastating increase in attacks on schools, researchers say

The Hindu  

An intensification of fighting in Myanmar’s civil war has brought a sharp increase in destructive attacks on schools, a group that monitors armed conflict in the Southeast Asian nation said in a report on July 20. “Education underpinned the democratic movement in Myanmar, but today Myanmar’s youth are witnessing their schools — and life opportunities — reduced to rubble,“ said …

U.N. says violence against children in conflict reached extreme levels in 2023, including in Gaza
6 months, 4 weeks ago

U.N. says violence against children in conflict reached extreme levels in 2023, including in Gaza

The Hindu  

Violence against children caught in multiplying and escalating conflicts reached “extreme levels” in 2023, with an unprecedented number of killings and injuries in crises, from Israel and the Palestinian territories to Sudan, Myanmar and Ukraine, according to a new U.N. report. “I am appalled by the dramatic increase in grave violations,” he said, especially the recruitment, killing and maiming of …

UN says violence against children in conflict reached extreme levels in 2023, including in Gaza
6 months, 4 weeks ago

UN says violence against children in conflict reached extreme levels in 2023, including in Gaza

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — Violence against children caught in multiplying and escalating conflicts reached “extreme levels” in 2023, with an unprecedented number of killings and injuries in crises, from Israel and the Palestinian territories to Sudan, Myanmar and Ukraine, according to a new U.N. report. “I am appalled by the dramatic increase in grave violations,” he said, especially the recruitment, killing …

For the children of Gaza, war means no school — and no indication when formal learning might return
7 months, 3 weeks ago

For the children of Gaza, war means no school — and no indication when formal learning might return

Associated Press  

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza — Atef Al-Buhaisi, 6, once dreamed of a career building houses. Since the war erupted Oct. 7, all of Gaza’s schools have closed — leaving hundreds of thousands of students like Atef without formal schooling or a safe place to spend their days. “What we’ve lost most is the future of our children and their education,” said …

‘Border clashes in Lebanon taking heavy toll on children’
8 months, 1 week ago

‘Border clashes in Lebanon taking heavy toll on children’

The Hindu  

UNICEF, the children’s agency of the UN, said on April 30 that conflict on Lebanon’s border between Hezbollah militant group and Israel was taking a heavy toll on children, with thousands out of school and healthcare “critically impacted”. “We are deeply alarmed by the situation of children and families who have been forced from their homes,” Edouard Beigbeder, the Lebanon …

Sudan’s war began a year ago. Children are among its most fragile survivors
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Sudan’s war began a year ago. Children are among its most fragile survivors

Associated Press  

METCHE CAMP, Chad — The war in Sudan began a year ago. We don’t even have sugar.” Back home, Sudan’s military, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, is fighting the paramilitary group known as Rapid Support Forces, commanded by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, for immensely greater resources — including power over the country’s more than 45 million people. “It has …

Gaza’s children face long road to healing
9 months ago

Gaza’s children face long road to healing

Al Jazeera  

Eight out of 10 schools in the Gaza Strip are damaged or destroyed, the United Nations children’s agency says, but it is the psychological damage of Israel’s war on the territory’s nearly 1.2 million children that has experts worried. Most kids in Gaza at the moment have brains that are functioning under trauma,” said child psychiatrist Audrey McMahon of international …

Warnings against normalising conflict as Yemen marks decade of war
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Warnings against normalising conflict as Yemen marks decade of war

Al Jazeera  

NGOs warn that hunger, disease and lack of education stalk Yemen as war persists. Reports released on Monday said two in five Yemeni children are not attending school while more than 17 million people – half of them children – require health assistance. New report and press release 👇https://t.co/pAfi85JTmz — Save the Children MENA & Eastern Europe March 25, 2024 …

Over 13,000 children killed in Gaza, others severely malnourished: UNICEF
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Over 13,000 children killed in Gaza, others severely malnourished: UNICEF

Al Jazeera  

The UN agency says surviving children do not ‘even have the energy to cry’ as famine looms in the besieged enclave being bombarded for months. Israel has killed more than 13,000 children in Gaza since October 7 while others are suffering from severe malnutrition and do not “even have the energy to cry”, says the United Nations Children’s Fund. Because …

Israel-Hamas war killed more kids than in 4 years of global conflict: UN agency
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Israel-Hamas war killed more kids than in 4 years of global conflict: UN agency

Hindustan Times  

More children have been reported killed in the war raging in Gaza than in four years of conflict around the world, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Tuesday. The number of children reported killed in just over 4 months in #Gaza is higher than the number of children killed in 4 years of wars around the …

Children are bearing the brunt of the horrors in Gaza. How can this go on?
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Children are bearing the brunt of the horrors in Gaza. How can this go on?

ABC  

The most dangerous place in the world to be a child. Which raises an obvious question: Why could Israel not have carried out "surgical strikes" against Hamas's leadership in Gaza? Israeli media said Blinken told Netanyahu: "I will think about the thousands of children who were killed in Gaza for the rest of my life." UNICEF's James Elder said: "In …

UNICEF says 700,000 children in Sudan face life-threatening malnutrition
11 months ago

UNICEF says 700,000 children in Sudan face life-threatening malnutrition

Al Jazeera  

As the war continues, the UN agency warns tens of thousands of children will ‘likely die’ without more aid. At least 700,000 children in Sudan are likely to suffer from the worst form of malnutrition this year, and tens of thousands could die, the United Nations children’s agency has warned. “The consequences of the past 300 days means that more …

UN estimates 17,000 Gaza children left unaccompanied amid Israel’s war
11 months, 1 week ago

UN estimates 17,000 Gaza children left unaccompanied amid Israel’s war

Al Jazeera  

More than one million children in the besieged Gaza Strip now require mental health support, UNICEF says. At least 17,000 children in the Gaza Strip have been left unaccompanied or separated from their families nearly four months into Israel’s assault on the enclave, the United Nations children’s agency estimates. ‘Almost all children’ need mental health support Crickx also said the …

Israel-Gaza war: Israeli bombing is killing and maiming children at a record pace, warn human rights groups
1 year ago

Israel-Gaza war: Israeli bombing is killing and maiming children at a record pace, warn human rights groups

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “For the intensity, it is something I have never …

Photos: Israel’s war on Gaza’s children
1 year ago

Photos: Israel’s war on Gaza’s children

Al Jazeera  

More than 8,663 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 7, according to the government media office, which added that thousands more are missing under the rubble amid relentless bombardment. “Our gravest fears about the reported numbers of children killed becoming dozens, then hundreds, and ultimately thousands were realised in just a fortnight,” James Elder, …

UNICEF says Gaza world's 'most dangerous place' for children: ‘To survive…’
1 year, 1 month ago

UNICEF says Gaza world's 'most dangerous place' for children: ‘To survive…’

Hindustan Times  

The head of the United Nations children's agency on Wednesday called the besieged Gaza Strip "the most dangerous place in the world to be a child," and said that the hard-won truce deal between Israel and Hamas was not enough to save their lives. UNICEF's executive director Catherine Russell told the UN Security Council that over 5,300 children have reportedly …

Is Israel’s Gaza war the deadliest conflict for children in modern times?
1 year, 2 months ago

Is Israel’s Gaza war the deadliest conflict for children in modern times?

Al Jazeera  

Many more children have been killed in Gaza every day compared with Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq and other conflict zones. Ukraine has a population density of 76 people per square kilometre, according to the World Bank. Iraq has a population density of 100 people per square kilometre, according to the World Bank. Syria has a population density of 116 people per …

More than 3,600 Palestinian children were killed in just 3 weeks of war
1 year, 2 months ago

More than 3,600 Palestinian children were killed in just 3 weeks of war

Associated Press  

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — More than 3,600 Palestinian children were killed in the first 25 days of the war between Israel and Hamas, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry. “When houses are destroyed, they collapse on the heads of children,” writer Adam al-Madhoun said Wednesday as he comforted his 4-year-old daughter Kenzi at the Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in …

More children’s deaths in Gaza in 3 weeks than annual total since 2019: NGO
1 year, 2 months ago

More children’s deaths in Gaza in 3 weeks than annual total since 2019: NGO

Al Jazeera  

More children have died in Gaza since October 7 than from conflicts around the world in each of the last four years. More children have now been killed in Gaza in the last three weeks than the total killed in conflicts around the world in every year since 2019, the nongovernmental organisation Save the Children has said. Figures released by …

Child casualties in Gaza a ‘stain on our conscience’: UNICEF
1 year, 2 months ago

Child casualties in Gaza a ‘stain on our conscience’: UNICEF

Al Jazeera  

As Israel bombs Gaza, UNICEF calls for unimpeded humanitarian access to enclave where half the population is below the age of 18. The United Nations Children’s Agency has decried the “staggering” number of children casualties in Gaza, where officials say Israeli bombardment has killed thousands. “Even more frightening is the fact that unless tensions are eased, and unless humanitarian aid …

Sudan's military clash killed over 9,000 people, UN dubs it worst humanitarian nightmare in recent history
1 year, 2 months ago

Sudan's military clash killed over 9,000 people, UN dubs it worst humanitarian nightmare in recent history

India TV News  

Six months of war between Sudan's military and a powerful paramilitary group has killed up to 9,000 people and created "one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history," the United Nations humanitarian chief said on Sunday. Sudan has been engulfed in chaos since mid-April when simmering tensions between military chief General Abdel-Fattah Burhan and the commander of the paramilitary …

‘There are hundreds of kids here’: British doctor in Palestine says system ‘will collapse very soon’
1 year, 2 months ago

‘There are hundreds of kids here’: British doctor in Palestine says system ‘will collapse very soon’

The Independent  

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How are Palestinian children affected by the Israel-Hamas war?
1 year, 2 months ago

How are Palestinian children affected by the Israel-Hamas war?

Al Jazeera  

The Israeli air strikes have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of children in Gaza, the total blockade poses further risks. With warplanes carrying out air strikes and Israel’s announced total blockade of the Gaza Strip, residents have been stripped of access to many necessities, including food and water. On Wednesday, the death toll in Gaza reached at least 950 …

43 million children displaced from 2016-2021 due to climate disasters: UNICEF
1 year, 3 months ago

43 million children displaced from 2016-2021 due to climate disasters: UNICEF

Hindustan Times  

Weather disasters fueled by climate change -- from floods to droughts, storms to wildfires -- sparked 43.1 million child displacements from 2016 to 2021, the UN Children's Fund warned Thursday, slamming the lack of attention paid to victims. From 2016 to 2021, four types of climate disasters -- the frequency of which has increased due to global warming -- led …

More than 1,200 children have died in the past 5 months in conflict-wrecked Sudan, the UN says
1 year, 3 months ago

More than 1,200 children have died in the past 5 months in conflict-wrecked Sudan, the UN says

Associated Press  

CAIRO — More than 1,200 children under age 5 have died in nine camps in war-scarred Sudan in the past five months, because of a deadly combination of measles and malnutrition, the U.N.’s refugee agency said Tuesday. “Dozens of children are dying every day — a result of this devastating conflict and a lack of global attention,” U.N. High Commissioner …

About 500 children have died from hunger in Sudan since fighting erupted in April, charity says
1 year, 4 months ago

About 500 children have died from hunger in Sudan since fighting erupted in April, charity says

Associated Press  

CAIRO — About 500 children have died from hunger in Sudan — including two dozen babies in a government-run orphanage in the capital of Khartoum — since fighting erupted in the East African country in April, a leading aid group said Tuesday. Save the Children also said that at least 31,000 children lack access to treatment for malnutrition and related …

14 million children in Sudan are in dire need of humanitarian support, says UNICEF
1 year, 5 months ago

14 million children in Sudan are in dire need of humanitarian support, says UNICEF

CNN  

CNN — Fourteen million children are in “dire need” of humanitarian support in Sudan, the United Nation’s children’s agency warned on Friday, as a deadly conflict in the country deepens its hunger crisis. Almost 14 million children – a number roughly equivalent to every single child in Colombia, France, Germany, or Thailand – are in dire need of humanitarian support,” …

Over 26,000 kids experience highest number of grave violations: Report
1 year, 6 months ago

Over 26,000 kids experience highest number of grave violations: Report

Live Mint  

The children agency of the United Nations on Wednesday said that kids experienced the highest number of grave violations in conflicts between Israeli and Palestinians and in Congo and Somalia putting the most youngsters in peril, according to a report published by The Associated Press. Speaking to the told the UN Security Council, Omar Abdi, UNICEF’s deputy executive director said …

UNICEF says 300 trapped children rescued from a Sudanese orphanage after 71 others died
1 year, 7 months ago

UNICEF says 300 trapped children rescued from a Sudanese orphanage after 71 others died

The Hindu  

About 300 infants, toddlers and older children have been rescued from an orphanage in Sudan's capital after being trapped there while fighting raged outside, aid officials said on June 8. About 300 children at the Al-Mayqoma orphanage in Khartoum were transferred to a “safer location” elsewhere in the northeastern African nation, said Ricardo Pires, a spokesman for the UN children's …

Heavy fighting in Sudan, children caught in conflict: UN
1 year, 8 months ago

Heavy fighting in Sudan, children caught in conflict: UN

Hindustan Times  

Fierce fighting persisted in Sudan on Thursday despite a truce agreement as US intelligence said rival forces were trying to gain the upper hand ahead of possible negotiations and the UN warned of the violence's devastating toll on children. Smoke rises over the city as army and paramilitaries clash in power struggle, in Khartoum, Sudan, Despite multiple ceasefire declarations, the …

UNICEF: 12.7 million children in Africa missed vaccinations
1 year, 8 months ago

UNICEF: 12.7 million children in Africa missed vaccinations

The Independent  

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Escalating Sudan fighting puts millions of children at risk
1 year, 8 months ago

Escalating Sudan fighting puts millions of children at risk

Al Jazeera  

Nine children have been killed and more than 50 wounded since the conflict broke out on Saturday, UNICEF says. Escalating violence between rival military forces in Sudan is putting millions of children at risk, UNICEF warns as the fighting continues for a sixth day. The battles between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have had a “devastating toll …

‘Catastrophic insecurity’: 10 million children in Sahel need aid
1 year, 9 months ago

‘Catastrophic insecurity’: 10 million children in Sahel need aid

Al Jazeera  

UNICEF says the number of children in extreme jeopardy has doubled since 2020 as armed groups continue to spread violence in region. In a report published on Friday, the United Nations children’s agency said nearly four million more children are at risk in neighbouring countries as hostilities between armed groups and national security forces spill across borders. “Children are increasingly …

More than 11,000 children killed or wounded in Yemen since 2015: UNICEF
2 years ago

More than 11,000 children killed or wounded in Yemen since 2015: UNICEF

The Hindu  

More than 11,000 children have been killed or wounded in the conflict in Yemen since 2015, the U.N. Children's Emergency Fund said on Monday, a week after it launched a multi-billion global funding drive. Yemen's Saudi-backed government and the Iran-aligned Houthis have been escalating an economic war amid stalling U.N.-led efforts for a new truce since an earlier pact expired …

UN to probe killing of children in Ukraine, Ethiopia, Mozambique
2 years, 5 months ago

UN to probe killing of children in Ukraine, Ethiopia, Mozambique

Al Jazeera  

Israel left off UN ‘blacklist’ intended to shame countries into implementing measures to protect children in conflict. UN officials will investigate the killing and wounding of children in Ukraine, Ethiopia and Mozambique, UN chief Antonio Guterres said in a new report that found 2,515 children were killed and 5,555 maimed in global conflicts in 2021. “It is always controversial when …

Bangladeshi children leaving school to work due to climate crisis
2 years, 8 months ago

Bangladeshi children leaving school to work due to climate crisis

Al Jazeera  

As families migrate after climate-related disasters, UNICEF says 1.7 million of the country’s children are now labourers. In an August report, UNICEF, the UN children’s agency, said children in the South Asian nations of Bangladesh, Afghanistan and India now face “extremely high” risks from climate change impacts. “For the first time, we have clear evidence of the impact of climate …

UN: Nearly two-thirds of Ukraine’s children have fled homes
2 years, 8 months ago

UN: Nearly two-thirds of Ukraine’s children have fled homes

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — Nearly two-thirds of all Ukrainian children have fled their homes in the six weeks since Russia’s invasion, and the United Nations has verified the deaths of 142 youngsters, though the number is almost certainly much higher, the U.N. children’s agency said Monday. Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF’s emergency programs director who just returned from Ukraine, said having 4.8 million …

Dozens of children killed, maimed in Yemen in two months: UNICEF
2 years, 9 months ago

Dozens of children killed, maimed in Yemen in two months: UNICEF

Al Jazeera  

More than 10,200 children have been killed or injured since the Saudi-led coalition intervened in 2015, the UN agency said. At least 47 children were “killed or maimed” in Yemen’s civil war in January and February following a surge in violence, the United Nations children’s fund said on Saturday. Children are the “first and most to suffer”, UNICEF said, adding …

Keep schools open, children can't wait: UNICEF
2 years, 11 months ago

Keep schools open, children can't wait: UNICEF

India Today  

Keep schools open amid the Covid-19 pandemic, said an official statement released by UNICEF. Also, World Bank's Global Education Director Jaime Saavedra said that there is no justification now for keeping schools closed in view of the pandemic and even if there are new waves, closing schools should be the last resort, according to the UNICEF Recommendations to reopen schools …

Over 4 million Afghan students out of schools, says Unicef: Where are the girls?
3 years, 1 month ago

Over 4 million Afghan students out of schools, says Unicef: Where are the girls?

India Today  

The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund said in a tweet that over 4 million children in Afghanistan are still out of schools and further informed that more than half of this figure is made up of girls. The tweet reads, "In the past 3 months, #UNICEF supported 5,350 community-based education classes ensuring access to learning for more than 142,700 children …

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