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Mediterranean ‘becoming a cemetery for children and their futures’

·October 2, 2023·2 min read

More than 11,600 unaccompanied children have crossed the Central Mediterranean to Italy so far this year the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday, an increase of 60 per cent compared with last year. The number of arrivals peaked this month on the small island of Lampedusa off Italy’s southern...

Rights experts warn against forced separation of Uyghur children in China

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·September 27, 2023·1 min read

Classroom teaching at these institutions is almost exclusively in Mandarin, with little or no use of the Uyghur language, they said in a statement. They warned that separating the children from their families “could lead to their forced assimilation into the majority Mandarin language and the adoption of Han cultural...

Over 330 million children worldwide living in extreme poverty

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·September 14, 2023·1 min read

The findings show that 333 million children worldwide are living in extreme poverty – a decrease of almost 50 million over the course of the past decade. However, the report’s authors say that millions more should have been lifted out of extreme poverty had it not been for three years...

UNHCR: more than 7 million refugee children out of school

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·September 8, 2023·1 min read

“With the displaced population rising every year, there is a significant and increasing proportion of the world’s children who are missing out on their education,” said Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday that by the end of 2022, the total number...

200,000 children at risk of starvation in Mali, warn UN agencies

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·September 3, 2023·1 min read

This warning comes at a time when almost a quarter of Mali’s population is experiencing moderate or acute food insecurity, with over 2,500 individuals on the brink of famine in the crisis-affected Menaka region, including many vulnerable children. Senior humanitarian officials from UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Food Programme...

African children bearing the brunt of climate change impacts

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·September 1, 2023·3 min read

It was released as leaders prepare to meet for the African Climate Summit, taking place next week in Nairobi, Kenya. Children in 48 out of 49 African countries assessed were found to be at high or extremely high risk of the impacts of climate change, based on their exposure and...

UNICEF urges support for children, as wildfires rage across Greece

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·August 30, 2023·1 min read

Fuelled by record temperatures and high winds, the deadly fires that began across the country in July have so far claimed 27 lives, including two children – both asylum seekers, according to news reports. They were among 18 bodies discovered by Greek authorities on 22 August in the national forest...

Sudan: ‘lost generation’ of children amid war, hunger, disease: UN humanitarians

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·August 26, 2023·2 min read

Mr. Griffiths said that the conflict spelled trauma for Sudan’s youth and cited “deeply disturbing” reports that some children were being used in the fighting.  He also warned that hundreds of thousands of children in the country were severely malnourished and “at imminent risk of death” if left untreated. Those...

Pakistan: Flood waters have gone but horror continues for children, UNICEF warns

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·August 26, 2023·1 min read

Speaking one year on from the unprecedented disaster, Abdullah Fadil, UNICEF Representative in Pakistan, noted new challenges for about four million children living without safe water in flood-affected areas. “Vulnerable children living in flood-affected areas have endured a horrific year. They lost their loved ones, homes and schools. As the...

More than two million children displaced by Sudan war: UNICEF

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·August 25, 2023·2 min read

Fighting between the Sudanese Army and military rival the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which erupted in April, has displaced 1.7 million children within the country while more than 470,000 have fled across the border to safety. Urgent response needed Given these numbers, and that countless more children are trapped by the violence, “the...

DR Congo: Children facing worst cholera outbreak in six years

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·August 18, 2023·1 min read

Across the country, there have been at least 31,342 suspected or confirmed cholera cases and 230 deaths in the first seven months of 2023 – many of them children. The worst affected province, North Kivu, has seen more than 21,400 confirmed or suspected cases, including more than 8,000 children under...

Haiti: ‘Unimaginable violence’ against women, children, reports UNICEF

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·August 7, 2023·2 min read

According to UNICEF, nearly 300 confirmed cases were reported in the first six months of 2023, almost matching the total number documented over 2022 and close to three times the number in 2021. “The stories we are hearing from UNICEF staff and partners on the ground are shocking and unacceptable,”...