(Al Jazeera) – Suspected Russian fighter jets have bombed a hospital in a city in the northern province of Idlib, wounding several people, a rescue group said. At least ten people were injured when three strikes targeted the main hospital in Maaret al-Numan on Sunday evening, destroying the building, a Syrian Civil Defence official told Al Jazeera. Link
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(The World Post) – Almost every hospital in opposition-held areas of northern and southern Syria were attacked at least once last year, and some medical facilities were hit as many as 25 times, according to a report released Sunday. The Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations (UOSSM), an independent humanitarian organization, in December surveyed 107 […]
(AP) – Six-year-old Santo proudly wears a Harvard T-shirt as if he has just been accepted into the elite institution, but its warped lettering, layers of dirt and gaping holes say more about the young refugee’s future. After fleeing South Sudan’s three-year civil war, Santo and his family have found themselves in the bleak Bidi Bidi […]
(Save the Children) – Amal barely survived after a bomb ripped through her school late last year, killing her friends and teacher, and injuring her brother. Now the children can’t sleep at night, haunted by visions of blood and shrapnel-torn skin. “I have to stay up with my children all night,” explains Amal’s father. “So they […]
(Physicians for Human Rights) – As fighting in Syria’s Hama governorate has intensified over the past week, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) reported today that at least two Hama medical facilities have come under attack in the past seven days. The two facilities – a hospital in Latamneh and a medical point in Kafar Naboudah – […]
(OSRSG-CAAC) – Dear friends and colleagues, After four and a half years as UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, the time has come to say goodbye. But first, I’d like to thank all of you for your commitment, unwavering support and work to alleviate the plight of children affected by armed conflict. When I […]
(AFP) – Beheadings, mass graves, kidnapped foreigners, child soldiers: a tribal insurrection in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kasai region has killed hundreds of people and risks further destabilising the fragile central government. Congolese officials face growing international pressure to curb the violence, while the UN Security Council prepares to vote on Friday to cut down its […]
(MSF) – A hospital in northern Syria that receives support from the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was bombed on March 25, killing two people and causing severe respiratory symptoms among patients and staff, MSF said today, denouncing the attack. At about 6:00 p.m. local time, Latamneh hospital in northern Hama […]
(HRW) – In March 2015, Boko Haram fighters fleeing security forces from Chad and Niger escaped with some women and hundreds of children abducted from Damasak in Borno State. At least 300 of them were students at the Zanna Mobarti Primary School. Boko Haram insurgents attacked Damasak in November 2014, took control of the town, and abducted […]
(Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack) – Students, teachers, and academics living in situations of armed conflict are safer because of commitments made at the Second International Conference on Safe Schools, said the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA). At the two-day conference held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 28-29, 2017, more […]
