Topic: CHILDREN
Only 34% of world’s refugee children attend secondary school: Report
Two-thirds of refugee children might never get to secondary school, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday, as it called for an international effort to confront "critically low" levels of school and university enrolment.
Scrub typhus: ‘Mystery illness’ plaguing kids in UP
A viral fever has killed around 40 people, including 32 children, over the past week in Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh. Over the past weeks, at...
Covid vaccines needed for teachers, children to keep schools open: WHO, UNICEF
As the school year begins for millions of children in Europe and Central Asia, UN health and child experts on Monday issued a series of COVID-19 risk reduction measures to ensure that in-person lessons can go ahead, despite rising infection rates.
Six children of a family killed in US drone attack in Afghanistan
Several children have been killed in a US drone attack that destroyed a car laden with explosives near the international airport in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul.
More children than ever before live as migrants or refugees, outside their birth countries: Report
More girls and boys than ever are on the move, with 35.5 million having lived outside their country of birth in 2020 and an additional 23.3 million displaced internally, according to a new report by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) published on Friday.
‘Lifesaving’ protection for children in conflict must be central to pandemic recovery: UN official
Protection for children caught up in war must be at the heart of the international agenda, including COVID-19 response, a senior UN official said on Monday.
