In a disturbing instance from Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore district, a private school in Senguttaipalayam allegedly compelled a Class VIII student, belonging to a Scheduled Caste (SC), to sit for her annual examination outside the classroom solely because she was menstruating.
Palestinians take part in the funeral of two-year-old Layla Khateeb who was killed after being shot in the head by Israeli colonial forces in the village of Muthalath, near Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, during a large-scale military operation in area, January 26, 2025
An independent human rights expert on Tuesday also zeroed in on the welfare of close to 700 children being held at the prison, noting that boys as young as 12 are living “amid the chaos and carnage in the jail”.
Half of the world’s children experience violence on and offline in some form every year, with “devastating and life-long consequences” for their mental health, the UN chief warned a symposium on the issue on Thursday.