Tag Archives: Children

Children are disappearing from northern Ohio in record numbers, with more than 1,000 minors reported missing so far this year. More than 45 children have gone missing in the Cleveland-Akron area this month alone, and in August, there were more than 35 missing minors, according to the Ohio attorney general’s …

An estimated 333 million children, one in six of the world’s child population, are grappling with extreme poverty, revealed a report jointly prepared by UNICEF and the World Bank. UNICEF and the World Bank collaborated on a report titled “Global Trends in Child Monetary Poverty According to International Poverty Lines,” …

More than 11,000 Yemeni children have been killed or maimed since the Saudi-led aggression against the impoverished country began in 2015, according to the executive director of UNICEF. Thousands of children have lost their lives while hundreds of thousands more remain at risk of death from preventable disease or starvation, …

United Nations warns dwindling funds are affecting much-needed assistance and adding to children’s struggles.

Schools offering activity-based learning over textbook-based education are emerging across India.

Climbers dressed as Santa Claus abseiled down the outside of a Ljubljana children’s hospital to spread Christmas cheer. The abseiling Santas, from a local cave rescue association, waved and danced for patients and staff.

Bedtime for adolescents is hardly ever fun. According to a new study, however, moms and dads apparently have the right idea when they make sure their kids are in bed at a reasonable hour. Scientists from Boston’s Children’s Hospital report inadequate sleep can be absolutely devastating for the developing pre-teen …

Trapped in conflicts, the children of West and Central Africa are the most recruited by armed groups in the world and also have the highest number of victims of sexual violence, says a report released Tuesday by the United Nations Children’s Fund. For five years the region has seen increased …

Children as young as five will need to be vaccinated to travel on Disney Cruise Line ships, the company has announced, in an expansion of its vaccine mandate. It is the first major passenger liner to require jabs for kids. The updated coronavirus vaccination requirements were announced by Disney on …

The Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine showed 90.7% efficacy against the coronavirus in a clinical trial of children 5 to 11 years old, the U.S. drugmaker said on Friday. Sixteen children in the trial who had received a placebo got COVID-19, compared with 3 who were vaccinated, Pfizer said in briefing documents …

UN agencies are gearing up to vaccinate all of Afghanistan’s children under 5 against polio for the first time since 2018 after the Taliban agreed to the campaign, the World Health Organization says. For the past three years, the Taliban barred UN-organized vaccination teams from doing door-to-door campaigns in parts …

Ten thousand Yemeni children have been killed or maimed since a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia intervened in March 2015 after the Yemeni forces ousted the government, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said on Tuesday. “The Yemen conflict has just hit another shameful milestone. We now have 10,000 …

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech said on Thursday they had asked US regulators to approve emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccine for children aged from five to 11, Pfizer said in a post on Twitter. “We and BioNTech Group officially submitted our request to US FDA for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) …

The Catholic Church’s leader Pope Francis has expressed sadness and shame over the Church’s inability to deal with the sexual abuse of children by the clergy in France. Francis’ expression of regret came after an independent commission investigating sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in France published a 2,500-page …

Children are dying of starvation in Afghanistan, local and international sources said Saturday, following warnings that a million youngsters there could face life-threatening malnutrition by the end of the year. In Ghor, one of the affected provinces, at least 17 children among those who made it to hospital have died …

Twelve million French children headed back to school on Thursday, wearing facemasks, using sanitizer at the entrance and standing distanced from each other in the yard under strict government rules aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19. “This is very different from usual ‘back-to-school’ days,” said Matthieu Seguin, deputy director …

About 1 billion children – nearly half the world’s 2.2 billion children – live in 33 countries classified as “extremely high-risk” of the impacts of climate change, according to a report of the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) launched on Friday. These children face a deadly combination of exposure to multiple …

More than two million children are out of school because of the continuing war across Yemen, says UNICEF. The United Nations has warned that Yemeni children’s education and futures were under threat because of the continuing war in the Middle Eastern country. In a report titled Education Disrupted: Impact of …

Aid agencies have distributed a strawberry-flavored tablet for children living with HIV in six African countries, the first generic pediatric version of a key anti-retroviral, global health agency UNITAID said on Sunday. UNITAID and Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) funding procured 100,000 packs of the dolutegravir formulation across Nigeria, Malawi, …

The United States on Thursday added Turkey to a list of countries that are implicated in the use of child soldiers over the past year, placing a NATO ally for the first time in such a list, in a move that is likely to further complicate the already fraught ties …