(OSRSG-CAAC) – In his Annual report on children and armed conflict covering the year 2015, the UN Secretary-General expressed his shock at the scale of grave violations committed against [...]
On August 19, the United Nations marked World Humanitarian Day, a day designated to commemorate those humanitarian aid workers who risked and lost their lives while in the service of civilians in [...]
New research from Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict has found that counterterrorism efforts are harming children living in countries embroiled in armed conflict. Released on January 27, [...]
Governments Are Violating Children’s Rights in the Name of Counterterrorism Thousands of Children Are Unlawfully Detained, At Risk of Becoming Stateless, and Denied Access to Lifesaving [...]
On December 17, 2019, Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict and the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations co-hosted a side event examining efforts to [...]
(AP) – Two suicide bombers carried out separate attacks Tuesday that killed five people in Damaturu, a town in northeastern Nigeria, police and witnesses said. In one attack, a girl bomber [...]
(GCPEA) – Local knowledge and skills are crucial in the fight to protect students, educators, and schools from attack, said the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) in [...]
(Al Jazeera) – Two years have passed since Boko Haram abducted 276 schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria, and 219 of the girls remain missing. The anniversary, and that of the kidnapping of [...]
(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When a colleague asked Margee Ensign to help her sister who had been snatched by Boko Haram from her school dormitory in Chibok and escaped, the president of the [...]
(Save the Children) – A new survey from Save the Children has found that up to half of all under-fives are acutely malnourished in some parts of north-east Nigeria where it is feared 200 [...]
