New York, Feb 5 (JEN): Syrian children have been subjected to “unspeakable” suffering in the nearly three years of civil war, with the Government and allied militia responsible for count ...

New York, Jan 31 (JEN): Urging greater efforts to identify and address the gaps that prevent the most disadvantaged of the world’s 2.2 billion children from enjoying their rights, the Unit ...

New York, Jan 30 (JEN): Some 125 million school children around the world are unable to read a single sentence, even after four years of attendance – a waste of USD 129 billion a year – ...

New York, Jan 23 (JEN): A new United Nations-backed project is being launched on Wednesday in Malawi to tackle stunting, which affects nearly one million children under the age of five in th ...

New York, Jan 23 (JEN): With brutality against children in the Central African Republic (CAR) reaching unprecedented levels as youngsters are maimed, killed and beheaded, and amid rampant se ...

New York, Jan 15 (JEN): A new legal instrument allowing children or their representatives to file a complaint with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child is set to go into ...

New York, Jan 15 (JEN): The United Nations in South Sudan is assisting hundreds of students to complete their primary education this week by sitting for final exams that were disrupted when ...

New York, Jan 8 (JEN): The United Nations and its humanitarian partners on Tuesday appealed for USD 1 billion to save millions of Syrian children from becoming a “lost generation,” doom ...

New York, Dec 27 (JEN): The United Nations has voiced “extreme concern” that recent violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) will cause a sharp increase in children suffering seve ...