More than 1 million polio vaccines intended for children have been destroyed as a result of looting in Sudan during the upsurge in violence since April, the UN children’s agency UNICEF told Reuters on Friday. “A number of cold chain facilities have been looted, damaged and destroyed, including over a million polio vaccines in South Darfur,” Hazel De Wet, deputy …
UNICEF says only one in four Indian children has access to digital devices and internet, with many families selling belongings or taking loans to buy gadgets. Jean Dreze, a welfare economist, said the situation is bound to exacerbate the already “extreme inequalities” in access to education that reinforce India’s class, caste and gender divisions. The fear is that many children …
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