(UNOCHA) – Tasneem Khadra is a 17-year-old girl who used to live in the Katerji neighborhood of east Aleppo. Along with almost 6 million other children and youth, Tasneem was forced out of the education system following the besiege of East Aleppo and the subsequent evacuation of people in late 2016. Unable to attend formal schooling, […]
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(CBC Radio) – In Iraq, an uncertain future faces the women who escape ISIS. “We hear horrible stories … basically [ISIS fighters are] treating them like objects, sexual slavery, trafficking, literally selling them, and they don’t know who these men are, what are they, they get impregnated, they gave birth to children,” Galawezh Bayiz tells The […]
(HRW) – As the leader of a coalition of states that began military operations against the Houthis and allied forces in Yemen in March 2015, Saudi Arabia has committed numerous violations of international humanitarian law, including unlawful attacks that have killed and maimed children. By September 2017, more than 5,144 civilians, including many children, had been […]
(UNHCR) – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has just completed the first phase of Rohingya refugee family counting, where more than half a million refugees from Myanmar have so far been counted. UNHCR has met the Minister of Home Affairs overseeing the individual biometric registration exercise and briefed on the progress made on the family counting. […]
(World Vision) – Fresh reports from Bangladesh this week should be a wake-up call to protect children from immediate harm, says World Vision as is sounds the alarm about child trafficking in refugee camps. “Child protection issues are at the centre of the refugee crisis which include child marriage and child exploitation, and human trafficking. As […]
(EURACTIV) – All children – from Strasbourg to Syria – deserve to be treated as children before being viewed as refugees, migrants or any other label. They deserve our care and protection, our love and support. But instead, they are being detained for no other reason other than their migration status. Link
(Fortify Rights) – Myanmar authorities should immediately release a detained 14-year-old ethnic Ta’ang boy and urgently investigate allegations that military officials tortured him in detention, Fortify Rights said today. The Shan State Namhsan Township Court on October 30 sentenced Mai Cho Min Htwe to two years in prison for unlawful association with an ethnic armed group. […]
(UNICEF) – Myanmar’s 2014 census found that 20 percent of the country’s school age children are out of school, with Kayin and other conflict affected States topping the list. Many of these children choose to work. Others are driven by poverty to help their families make ends meet. Too many end up in hazardous work settings. […]
(AP) – The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a statement Monday strongly condemning the violence that has caused more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee from Myanmar to Bangladesh, a significant step that still fell short of a stronger resolution that Western nations wanted but China opposed. The presidential statement calls on Myanmar’s government “to ensure […]
(Al Jazeera) – Yemenis have denounced Saudi Arabia’s decision to close the country’s land, air and sea ports, calling it an “unnecessary and dangerous act of collective punishment” that puts millions of civilians at risk and exacerbates the plight of the country’s most vulnerable. The kingdom, which is currently leading a coalition of Sunni Arab states in bombing Yemen, said it was […]
