If the world can unite so overwhelmingly for 12 boys in Thailand, why can’t it unite for millions of Yemen’s dying children?
The United Nations warned in 2012 that Gaza could become uninhabitable by 2020, yet the Save the Children says the Strip is already “unliveable”.
Over a million children in Gaza are living in impoverished circumstances due to electricity shortages, causing problems for public health and education, warned Save the Children on Tuesday. The international NGO says Israel’s ongoing land, air and sea blockade of Gaza, which has been in place since 2007, is the primary cause of
A group of Israeli primary school boys received firearms training during a summer camp in an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s Ynet News reports on Saturday.
Children of Israeli settlers of primary school age were subject to weapons training at a summer camp inside an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli daily reported on Saturday. Boys from the fourth and fifth grades were taught to handle M16 rifles as part of an "army day" weapons training session at the summer camp in the
Nearly 6 million children are in need in Syria and another 2.5 million require assistance in neighboring countries, according to UNICEF.
The U.N. children's agency warned Friday that a critical funding shortfall is threatening aid to 9 million Syrian children, both in their country and among the refugees in neighboring states. UNICEF said the $220 million budget gap to its Syria relief programs is the worst it has faced since the start of the conflict, in 2011. It appealed for
“While food assistance, public health insurance, and other programs have certainly had a mitigating effect on poverty for many families, the fact remains that in the United States young children have close to a one in two chance of living on the brink of poverty.”
(REPORT) --- Out of all age groups, children are still most likely to live in poverty, according to new research from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Using the latest available data from the American Community Survey, NCCP researchers found that in 2015,
Israel’s killings and detentions of Palestinian children, demolitions of their homes, and restrictions on their travel and economy all reached dramatic heights last year.
UNITED NATIONS --- Israel’s attacks on Palestinian children increased dramatically in 2016, with Palestinian human rights groups and United Nations agencies documenting sharp escalations in killings and detentions of children in the occupied West Bank, demolitions of Palestinian property, and restrictions on Palestinians -- primarily children -- in
Out of the 32, 19 were between the ages of 16 and 17, while 13 were in the age group of 13 to 15 years old.
(REPORT) --- Israeli forces have killed more Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in 2016 than any other year in the last decade, rights group Defence for Children International (DCI) has said. The organisation's chapter in the occupied Palestinian territories recorded the killings of 32
