Children
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UN warns of winter dangers to children in the Middle Eastern conflicts
Photo shows a three-year-old boy sitting on a box of winter clothing that his family has received from a distribution at Kawergosk Syrian Refugee Camp in Erbil Governorate in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Credit: UNICEF/Khuzaie...October 30, 2017 1125 0 -
South Asian floods affect 45 million people
A temporary refuge along a road in a flooded area of southern Nepal. Photo: UNICEF Nepal/2017/NShrestha The catastrophic flooding in Bangladesh, India and Nepal has caused 1,288 deaths, damaged infrastructure over huge areas and and affected...September 2, 2017 1779 0 -
India torturing Kashmiri children into subjugation
Indian forces in Kashmir continue to inflict mental scars on young people in the disputed Himalayan territory that has also escalated tensions between nuclear armed neighbors since mass demonstrations against New Delhi’s repressive rule last year....April 9, 2017 1319 0 -
No end to suffering of Syrian children as world fails
A seven-year-old child stands in front of her damaged school in Idleb, Syria. October 2016. Photo: UNICEF While the world fails to end thee Syrian conflict and Bashar al Assad struts around, a new report has...March 13, 2017 1163 0 -
One Yemeni child dies every 10 minutes as poverty and war take toll
In Yemen, internally displaced children stand outside their family tent after the family fled their home in Saada province and found refuge in Darwin camp, PhotO: UNHCR/Yahya Arhab Children in the impoverished Yemeni nation are going...December 16, 2016 1610 0 -
‘No safe place left’ for surviving children in Aleppo; UN reports harrowing accounts
A Syrian child Photo: UNICEF/Khuder Al-Issa A UNICEF official has come back from the battered Syrian city of Aleppo with descriptions of “haunting images” of children killed by mortars and malnourishment. “When I was there, nearly...December 8, 2016 1432 0 -
Half a million Syrian children under siege
Photo: On 20 November 2016, a group of children push a cart trying to sell some radish in Al-Sha’ar neighbourhood in Aleppo, Syria. Food and other basic commodities are running out at one of East Aleppo’s once...November 30, 2016 854 0 -
Syrian children draw realities of war but keep hopes alive – Will the world help?
A generation of Syrian children maimed, tens of thousands killed as the five-year long conflict rages on in the last remaining streets of Aleppo. Schools, hospitals, houses destroyed, leaving deep imprints of excruciating moments of loss...October 17, 2016 2560 0