(HRW) – A group of civilians is stranded in the last remaining pocket under Islamic State (also known as ISIS) control in the city of Deir al-Zor, Human Rights Watch said today. All parties to the conflict, including the Syrian-Russian alliance and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), that are surrounding the area should provide safe […]
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(UNICEF) – Mansour and Mariyam are parents to 13 beautiful children, and were forced to flee Taiz when the roof of their house was destroyed in an explosion. Mansour is trying to explain to me what it is like to flee from your home and try to start a new life: “Imagine you have to […]
(NRC) – Two new Palestinian schools in the occupied West Bank, which are funded by European governments, are under threat of destruction and seizure. An Israeli court has already ordered students not to attend class in one of them. Link
(UNICEF) – In the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), UNICEF is running several projects, in partnership with local bodies, to guarantee that all children have a positive experience of growing up. One of these large-scale projects is “Capoeira for Peace”. This project is run by the NGO CAJED, which set up a […]
(Prime Minister of Canada) – Canada is committed to ensuring that all children are safe from harm and have every opportunity to grow and learn. The Vancouver Principles on Peacekeeping and the Prevention of the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers represent an important step forward in the international community’s determination to save children from […]
(UN Meetings Coverage and Press Releases) – At its 68th meeting, on 15 November 2017, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, in connection with the examination of the first report of the Secretary‑General on children and armed conflict in Nigeria (document S/2017/304), covering the period from January 2013 to December 2016, agreed to address the following messages […]
(HRW) – “My sister finished the first year at school, but then she got tired and decided to leave. She walked four hours each way every day, so that made her tired,” Sabina, 12, who grew up in rural Balkh province, said. Sabina was able to study starting at age 10 after her family moved to […]
(UN News Centre) – The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday extended the mandate of the Organization’s peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR), until 15 November 2018, increased the mission’s troop level by 900 military personnel. The increase in the number of the Mission’s ‘blue helmets’ comes against the backdrop of increasing fighting in […]
(The Huffington Post) – Israeli soldiers arrested Ahmed, 16, in the West Bank city of Hebron last year. He said the soldiers blindfolded and handcuffed him and took him to a police station in a settlement, where he was made to sit outside on the ground for about five hours. At around 12:30 a.m., he […]
(Middle East Eye) – US lawmakers have overwhelmingly passed a bill that denounces the killing of civilians in Yemen’s war, though language in an earlier version about cutting military support to the Saudi-led coalition was scrapped. The latest version of the bill, which was adopted in a 366-to-30 vote late on Monday, laid out the […]
