(OSRSG-CAAC) – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, welcomes the surrender on 26 July of Ntabo Ntaberi Cheka, founder and leader of the Nduma Defence of Congo/Cheka, to the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) in Mutongo, North Kivu. Link
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(Their World) – In a war zone, toxic stress can be as much of an enemy for young children as armed fighters or bombs. When exposed to periods of prolonged fear, chronic neglect or abuse, poverty and hunger, a child’s “stress response” will go into overdrive – with devastating consequences. Link
(The New Arab) – Palestinian doctors in occupied West Bank went on a two hour strike on Tuesday morning in protest of recent assaults on hospitals by Palestinian gunmen in Jenin and Hebron. The gunmen raided the hospital, vandalised equipment and assaulted the public sector doctors in al-Razi hospital in Jenin and Alia hospital in Hebron […]
(Yazda, Global R2P, and Global Citizen) – Tomorrow, 3 August 2017, marks the third anniversary of the genocide against the Yazidi. In the summer of 2014, the so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS) launched a systematic campaign of mass atrocities against civilians in northern Iraq. By 3 August that campaign reached Sinjar City and many other […]
(Save the Children) – In Yemen, there more than 1 million acutely malnourished children under 5 living in areas where cholera infection levels are high. This is incredibly dangerous. Children who are malnourished are three times as likely to die if they get cholera, because of their weakened immune systems. Link
(CNN) – More than a million children already suffering from acute malnutrition are at risk from a cholera outbreak sweeping war-torn Yemen, charity Save the Children warned Wednesday. The charity said it was sending more health experts to the worst-affected areas as it tries to ease the crisis. A ravaged health care system, devastated infrastructure […]
(UNAMID) – The importance of child rights and child protection in armed conflict was the focus of UNAMID training for members of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) held on 01 August 2017, in El Fasher, North Darfur. The one-day training, delivered by the Mission’s Child Protection Unit (CPU), involved 125 SAF members. The training is part […]
(Al Jazeera) – Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children could not attend school for three years while the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group controlled the province of Mosul and other areas around it. But after an Iraqi government offensive that forced ISIL (also known as ISIS) fighters to flee the region, the UN stepped […]
(HRW) – South Sudanese government and opposition leaders have failed to halt atrocity crimes, including killings, rape, and forced displacement, or to hold those responsible to account, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 52-page report, “‘Soldiers Assume We Are Rebels’: Escalating Violence and Abuses in South Sudan’s Equatorias,” documents the spreading violence and serious […]
(VoA) – The U.S. government oversight agency for operations in Afghanistan has requested the Pentagon declassify a report detailing alleged sexual abuse of children by Afghan soldiers. The request from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) says the report, which recently was issued to Congress, is classified because much of the information upon which […]
