(OSRSG-CAAC) – Boys and girls living in countries affected by armed conflict have been victims of widespread violations in 2016, as documented in the Secretary-General’s Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict released today and covering the period from January to December 2016. The alarming scale and severity of violations against children in 2016 – including […]
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(IPS) – “Peace is not a one-day affair or event, it requires our collective effort,” said South Sudan’s Vice President, General Taban Deng Gai, while addressing the General Assembly at the UN. South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, celebrated its six-year anniversary on July 9 this year, with its president, Salva Kirr, marking 2017 as the ‘Year […]
(AFP) – An air strike killed at least seven people, including four children, on Wednesday in a rebel-held district of northern Yemen, the Houthi rebels and a medical source said. The Houthi-run news site Saba reported 12 dead in what the Shia rebels said was an air raid on Baqem district in the northern province of […]
(European Commission) – In the past two weeks, in Syria there has been the highest number of casualties in 2017, as a result of the heavy air attacks hitting civilians and civilian infrastructure, in particular hospitals and medical facilities, in Northern Syria. Since September 19, increased aerial bombardments across Idlib, Aleppo and Hama have left hundreds […]
(Humanity United) – This weekend, President Trump signed a waiver allowing continued military funding to South Sudan despite it being listed in violation of the Child Soldier Prevention Act. The 2008 law forbids the U.S. to provide military assistance to governments found to be recruiting or using children in their national military or government-supported militias. Link
(Reuters) – A confidential draft United Nations blacklist seen by Reuters on Tuesday names a Saudi Arabia-led military coalition for killing and maiming children in Yemen, though it notes that the alliance has put in place measures to improve child protection. In an effort to dampen controversy surrounding the annual children and armed conflict report, the […]
(Al-Fanar Media) – As he stood waiting for a meal at the Church of SS. Peter and Paul in Torit, a South Sudanese town near the Ugandan border, 12-year-old Teddy Kuol lamented how the civil war in his country has forced him and others to drop out of school. “I’m not in school right now because […]
(HRW) – Bombing and shelling of civilians. Denial of access to food and medicine. Landmines and cluster bombs. Torture and abduction. Child soldiers. For more than two years, international, regional, and Yemeni human rights groups called on the United Nations to confront a mounting list of abuses. For more than two years, the response hewed closer to indifference – or at least learned silence in the face of […]
(HRW) – The big picture is bleak for Syrian refugee children, but the Jordanian government recently took a step to ensure these children’s right to an education. Jordanian regulations require Syrian children to have a “service card,” issued by the interior ministry, to enroll in school. These cards may be difficult or impossible for Syrian families […]
(Newsweek) – Days after the Islamic State group fled Mosul, Saeed Quraishi was in a judge’s office in Iraq’s Nineveh province when two women arrived. They were handing over suspects with links to ISIS. But these weren’t hardened fighters or even sympathizers. They were their children, all under the age of 3. “We don’t want them,” […]
