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New European Union returns policies put children at risk

The European Commission yesterday adopted a Recommendation and Renewed Action Plan for EU member states to consider in their procedures to return men, women and children staying...

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Iraq: 15,000 children flee west Mosul over past week as battle intensifies, says UNICEF

Some 15,000 children have over the previous week fled the western section of Iraq’s Mosul city where fighting between the Government forces and terrorists is intensifying by the day...

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More than 1 million children affected by drought in Kenya - UNICEF

The onset of a severe drought in 2016 has hit arid and semi-arid regions in Kenya, affecting over 2.7 million people. UNICEF is supporting the Government of Kenya in initiating and...

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U.N. documents nearly 1,500 child soldiers in Yemen

Nearly 1,500 children have been recruited by Yemen’s warring parties, mostly the Houthi rebels, since March 2015, the U.N. said Tuesday. The U.N. has verified the recruitment of 1,...

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Lebanon activists reject underage marriage draft law

Activists Monday decried a proposed draft law on child marriage that proposes judges approve requests for marrying off underage children, saying it does not do enough to guarantee...

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Mental conflict endures for former child soldiers

 Haunted by indelibly painful memories, deprived of schooling and strangers to their own families -- for former child soldiers returning to normal life is often as tough as being in...

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South Lebanon police arrest father over child abuse

South Lebanon police have arrested a Syrian national suspected of abusing his daughter, the National News Agency reported Thursday. Police detained Mohamad A. in Nabatieh and he is...

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Child Rights Toolkit out in Lebanon

“Everywhere around us, everyday Children are denied their rights,” Tanya Chapuisat, UNICEF representative in Lebanon, said at the launch of the joint EU-UNICEF Child Rights Toolkit...

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Online child sex offences treble in East of England

The number of suspected online child sex offenders identified across the East of England has nearly trebled in three years, the BBC has discovered. Last year more than 2,000...

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Norway asylum center worker charged with sexually assaulting ‘more than 10 children’

A social care worker in southern Norway has been charged with sexually abusing up to 15 refugee minors in different asylum centers between 2013 and 2016.

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Tory government cutting school funding for first time in decades – IFS report

The UK government will cut school funding for the first time in two decades, a new analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) claims. According to the IFS, the real-term...

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Jailing parents for female genital mutilation ‘unlikely to benefit the child’ – police

An English police force has come under fire for claiming the prosecution of parents who allow female genital mutilation (FGM) of their children is “unlikely to benefit the child.”

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Women with genital herpes twice as likely to give birth to autistic child

Women who have a type-2 genital herpes infection during the early stages of their pregnancy are twice as likely to give birth to an autistic child, a new study has concluded.

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Women and child migrants raped, beaten and detained in Libyan 'hellholes': UNICEF

Women and children making the dangerous journey to Europe to flee poverty and conflicts in Africa are being beaten, raped and starved in "living hellholes" in Libya, the United...

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Three years on, Britain's child sex abuse inquiry starts hearings

Britain's inquiry into historical child sex abuse scandals, some involving celebrities and politicians, finally opened its first public hearing on Monday after a sleuth of problems...

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