Haiti’s child death toll mounts as security mission lags
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters At least five Haitian children have been killed or injured a week so far in 2024, charity Save the Children said on Tuesday, urging the United Nations and security forces to do more to protect kids from crossfire and gang violence. Haiti in 2022 called for a security mission to help its […]
Israel says Hezbollah rocket kills 12 at football ground, vows response
Jerusalem/Beirut, Lebanon Reuters A rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 12 people including children on Saturday, Israeli authorities said, blaming Hezbollah and vowing to inflict a heavy price on the Iran-backed Lebanese group. Hezbollah denied any responsibility for the strike, the deadliest in Israel or Israeli-annexed territory since the […]
Attacks on Papua New Guinea villages kill 26, including 16 children, UN says
Sydney Reuters Violent attacks on three remote villages in Papua New Guinea’s north has likely killed 26 people, including 16 children, whiled several people were forced to flee after attackers set fire to their homes, the United Nations said. “I am horrified by the shocking eruption of deadly violence in Papua New Guinea, seemingly as […]
Your child’s village
You know the saying, “it takes a village to raise a child”? Who is in your child’s village? You can populate the village – don’t think it will happen by itself, you need to make sure you have a great group around your children. Supporting your child’s teachers is important to your child’s upbringing, says […]
Baptist World Aid Australia moves to protect children’s privacy in sponsorship process
Geelong, Australia It’s a process familiar to many of us – approaching an NGO’s stand in a church or shopping centre to see the images of scores of children laid out on a table in a bid to find sponsors for them. In what is believed to be a first in Australia, however, Baptist World […]
More than 60 children detained, beaten, tortured in El Salvador, HRW says
San Salvador, El Salvador Reuters More than 60 children in El Salvador have been arbitrarily detained, tortured and beaten since the government declared a state of emergency over two years ago to combat gangs, a report by the Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. Police and soldiers have detained 3,319 children and teenagers from March […]
Rising conflicts globally slowed childhood vaccination rate in 2023, UN says
Reuters More children were left out of critical vaccination drives for diseases such as diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough last year as a rise in conflicts across the globe hindered the supply of life-saving shots mostly in strife-torn regions, the United Nations said on Monday. About 14.5 million children failed to get vaccinated in 2023, […]
Intensifying Congo conflict puts a million children at risk of acute malnutrition
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters More than one million children are at risk from acute malnutrition in Democratic Republic of Congo as rising violence drives up needs among millions of displaced people, the World Health Organization said on Friday. The impact on civilians of the more than two-year conflict between Congolese forces and the Rwanda-backed M23 militia […]
Helpdesk: Stricter monitoring of tween and teen internet use may not always be better
US-based LINDA CHARMARAMAN, ELANA PEARL BEN-JOSEPH and J MAYA HERNANDEZ, in an article first published on The Conversation, look at what their research shows about setting limits on how young children use the internet…
Camping in schools, hungry Haiti families ask: when will normality return?
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Majorie Edoi sells food from a stand in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince – or she used to, until a conflict with armed gangs cut off the city from suppliers, paralysed trade routes and pushed the Caribbean country to its highest levels of hunger on record. The 30-year-old mother of three now sells food […]