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 ...

New York, Dec 12 (JEN): Nearly 230 million children under the age of five have not had their births officially recorded, excluding them from education, health care and social security, the ...

New York, Dec 4 (JEN): Global pop superstar Katy Perry was appointed Tuesday by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as its newest Goodwill Ambassador, with a special focus on enga ...

New York, Nov 30 (JEN): Syrian refugee children in Lebanon and Jordan suffer from widespread psychological distress, with many of them living alone or separated from their parents, and most ...

New York, Nov 28 (JEN): The United Nations Wednesday called on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to take immediate action in light of alarming reports of disappearance and assassin ...

New York, Nov 27 (JEN): Former child soldiers and girls used as sex slaves in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) desperately wish to be reunited with their communities – to return ...

New York, Nov 20 (JEN): Schools in and around Timbuktu and other parts of northern Mali are barely functioning following the occupation of the region earlier this year by armed groups, a joi ...

Bhopal, Nov 13 (JEN) Nishita, a student of class seven from a school in Bhopal city of Madhya Pradesh, hand paints a picture of how child labour impacts children. In a poster painted by her, ...

New York, Nov 9 (JEN): A United Nations independent expert Friday urged the Government of Benin to make child protection a priority in its agenda, following a visit to the country which rev ...