Geopolitics

Globally, 1 in 3 children missed out on remote learning when COVID-19 shuttered schools

New York: For at least 463 million children whose schools closed due to COVID-19, “there was no such a thing as remote learning,” the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday, as the agency launched a new report outlining the limitations of remote learning and exposing the deep inequalities in access. more

‘Dangerous nationalism’ seriously threatens efforts to tackle statelessness: UNHCR chief

New York:Hate speech and misguided nationalism present a serious threat to efforts to tackle statelessness, despite growing public awareness of the problem, UN refugee chief Filippo Grand ...

Four million have now fled Venezuela, UN ramps up aid to children who remain

New York, June 8 (JEN): The number of people who have left Venezuela to escape the country’s ongoing political and economic crisis, has reached some four million, the UN announced o ...

On the Global Day of Parents, UNICEF is urging support for parents to give children ‘the best start in life’

New York, June 2 (JEN): Kicking off on Saturday the first-ever global Parenting Month, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, is calling on world leaders to invest in family-fr ...

Four million Syrian children have only known war since birth: UNICEF

New York: Half of Syria’s children, that’s four million, have grown up only knowing a life of violence, as the war-battered country enters its eighth year of conflict, the Uni ...

Ukraine: 200,000 children forced to learn in bullet-riddled classrooms

New York: Some 200,000 girls and boys in eastern Ukraine are commuting to schools whose classroom walls are often riddled with bullets, and playgrounds scattered with metal remnants of wa ...

More than half of children and youth worldwide 'not learning' – UNESCO

New York, Sept 22(Just Earth News): About 617 million children and adolescents worldwide are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics, signalling “a learning cri ...

In 10 countries with highest out-of-school rates, 40 per cent of children are not accessing basic education

New York, Sept 1 (Just Earth News): As millions of children around the world prepare to return to school this month, the United Nations Childrenâ€™s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday highlighte ...

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