A minimum of 242 million kids in 85 international locations had their education interrupted final 12 months due to heatwaves, cyclones, flooding and different excessive climate, the United Nations Youngsters’s Fund mentioned in a brand new report Friday. UNICEF mentioned the world’s colleges and schooling methods “are largely ill-equipped” to take care of the consequences…
United Nations Kids’s Fund (UNICEF) has referred to as 2024 one of many worst years within the organisation’s historical past for youngsters residing in battle areas, with a document variety of youngsters having their rights violated, together with being killed, injured, out of faculty, lacking vaccines, and being critically malnourished. Kids in conflict-hit areas are…
Greater than 880,000 individuals have been displaced because the newest escalation of hostilities in Syria, UN humanitarians stated. United Nations accomplice organisations estimated that round 6 per cent of the displaced reside with at the very least one type of incapacity, the Xinhua information company reported. ‘Return actions stay dynamic, with companions recording greater than…
In the meantime, a US federal indictment has charged two former senior Syrian intelligence officers from the regime of former president Bashar al-Assad with “battle crimes towards Individuals and different civilians”, the division of justice introduced. The indictment accuses Jamil Hassan, 72, and Abdul Salam Mahmoud, 65, of conspiring to commit battle crimes by subjecting…
A document variety of unaccompanied migrant minors have traveled by way of Latin America and the Caribbean this yr, in line with estimates from UNICEF, the United Nations youngsters’s company. Some 3,800 youngsters migrated alone by way of the Darien Hole, a treacherous jungle route between Colombia and Panama in simply the primary 10 months…
