(UN News Centre) – Some 9.2 million children living in emergency countries will miss out on schooling unless the international community contributes an additional $820 million, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned at the start of today’s G20 summit. “Without education, children grow up without the knowledge and skills they need to contribute to the […]
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(UN News Centre) – Access, funding and security are urgently needed to ensure humanitarians can reach hundreds of thousands of children suffering from cholera and diarrhoea across Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Sudan, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said. On top of these diseases, rising rates of malnutrition in these countries “could be […]
(US. Department of State) – The Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 (CSPA) was signed into law on December 23, 2008 (Title IV of Pub. L. 110-457), and took effect on June 21, 2009. The CSPA requires publication in the annual Trafficking in Persons Report of a list of foreign governments identified during the previous year as having […]
(New York Times) – It was 9 on a hot summer morning in 2015 when the airstrike destroyed Ashwaq’s home, killing her four children as they ate breakfast. It was my first case in my new job as a field researcher for the Mwatana Organization for Human Rights. It still haunts me. When Ashwaq regained consciousness, she […]
(VOX) – The ongoing civil war in Yemen has unleashed another horror: a massive outbreak of cholera, with more than 200,000 suspected cases and 5,000 more being added per day. More than 1,300 victims have already died, a quarter of them children. “In just two months, cholera has spread to almost every [part] of this war-torn […]
(AFP) – A cholera outbreak in war-ravaged Yemen could infect more than 300,000 people by the end of August, up from nearly 193,000 cases today, the United Nations said Friday. “Probably at the end of August we will reach 300,000” cases, UN children’s agency spokeswoman Meritxell Relano told reporters in Geneva during a conference call. Link
(UN News Centre) – Calling for immediate humanitarian action amid rising malnutrition, thirst and disease, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today that millions of lives are at risk in four countries stretching from Africa to the Middle East. The welcome announcement of an end to famine conditions in South Sudan earlier this week should […]
(HRW) – The UAE supports Yemeni forces that have arbitrarily detained, forcibly disappeared, tortured, and abused dozens of people during security operations, Human Rights Watch said today. The UAE finances, arms, and trains these forces, which ostensibly are going after Yemeni branches of Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State (also known as ISIS). The UAE also runs at least two informal […]
(NewsWeek) – Millions of refugee children around the world have either fallen out of education or are at risk of doing so, while the people violating their rights are confident they will go unpunished, a leading charity CEO has warned. “You’re basically looking at an entire primary school generation losing the opportunity for education before the […]
(The Guardian) – The cholera outbreak in Yemen is escalating at an alarming rate, with experts warning that a child is now infected with the disease every 35 seconds, according to Save the Children. Grant Pritchard, the charity’s director in Yemen, warned the country is on “the verge of total collapse” as a combination of near-famine conditions […]
