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(UN News Centre) – With more people forced to flee their homes than at any time since World War II, world leaders came together at the United Nations today to adopt the New York [...]

(Child Soldiers International)  – A third of child soldiers are estimated to be girls in DR Congo – some as young as four years old. Many are forced to fight and are sexually abused. [...]

(A World at School) – The international community is neglecting millions of vulnerable babies and young children affected by conflicts and disasters, a shocking report by children’s charity [...]

(EASO) – Today, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) published a Country of Origin Information (COI) Report entitled ‘Afghanistan – Recruitment by armed groups’. The report is an [...]

(BBC) – Two children this week made me think very hard about the waste and horror of this war in Syria, of every war. The first was a boy of eight called Hani Jadid. He was lying on a [...]

(UNHCR) – The number of South Sudanese refugees sheltering in neighbouring countries has this week passed the 1 million mark, including more than 185,000 people who have fled since fresh [...]

(The Guardian) – More than one-third of all Saudi-led air raids on Yemen have hit civilian sites, such as school buildings, hospitals, markets, mosques and economic infrastructure, [...]

(UN News Centre) – The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria today said the ceasefire following last Friday’s Russia-United States agreement is largely holding but that desperately-awaited [...]

(UNHCR) – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, released a report today showing that more than half – 3.7 million – of the 6 million school-age children under its mandate have no school to go [...]

(Human Rights Watch) – A Turkish attack on US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters in northern Syria on August 28, 2016, killed 24 civilians, including 6 children. Between 10 and [...]