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Dominican Republic bans child marriage amid fears of global rise
The Dominican Republic needs to change its culture so that women are seen as more than housewives for this week’s ban on child marriage to work, girls’ rights campaigners said on... More
Millions of children in crisis hotspots ‘on the brink of famine’
More than 10 million children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, northeast Nigeria, the Central Sahel, South Sudan and Yemen will suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, the... More
How can the world boost efforts to end child labour in 2021?
The world is set to boost efforts to stop children working as 2021 marks the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, amid concerns that COVID-19 has fuelled the... More
4 set-backs women and girls faced in 2020
2020 has threatened to hobble progress on women’s equality as the COVID-19 pandemic wreaks global havoc. U.N. experts predict the gender poverty gap will widen in 2021 amid the... More
The virus that shut down the world: Education in crisis
Children all over the world have had their education severely disrupted this year, as schools struggle to cope with repeated closures and re-openings, and the transition, if it’s... More
Why is my child having nightmares?
Nightmares are vividly realistic, disturbing dreams that can be either idiopathic (spontaneous or of obscure cause) or post-traumatic (occurring after a crisis). More
Mozambique: 250,000 displaced children facing deadly disease threat
A lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene services have put approximately 250,000 children, displaced by escalating crises in a northern province of Mozambique, at risk from... More
Half of Brazil's child labourers work in dangerous conditions
Almost half of Brazil’s 1.8 million child labourers work in dangerous conditions, government data showed on Thursday, amid efforts to convince Brazilians, including the president,... More
New Zealand's child abuse inquiry: facts and history
An interim report by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into historic abuse of children in state and faith-based institutions has estimated that up to quarter of a million people were... More
Tigray crisis: Humanitarian aid for children must be a priority, UNICEF says
Providing aid to millions of children uprooted by the ongoing crisis in the Tigray region of Ethiopia must be a priority, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday... More
Small children prefer toys to experiences, study finds, assuaging parents’ lockdown guilt
Young children prefer toys and other material items over “experiences” like vacations or trips to theme parks, a recent study has found, surprising approximately no one, while... More
Rich countries’ support for children ‘totally inadequate’: UN report
The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, slams the levels of financial support for children allocated by high-income countries during the pandemic as totally inadequate, in a child poverty... More
Ethiopia: UN concern mounts over shortages, child welfare, in ongoing Tigray crisis
The dire shortage of food, water, fuel and cash in the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia is seriously affecting people there, including aid workers, the United Nations reported on... More
Shutting school systems, wrong response to COVID-19, UNICEF says
Countries fighting the coronavirus should not impose nationwide or large-scale school closures, which is the wrong response and compounds the societal cost of the disease, with 320... More
