Haitian gangs increasingly target children, using them as informants, fighters, and forced labor, says UNICEF report. An unprecedented number of children have been recruited by gangs in Haiti, the UN agency for the protection of children (UNICEF) has said, underscoring a worsening protection crisis in the violence-ridden Caribbean island. In…
The Gaza Strip is a graveyard for thousands of children, the United Nations has said. Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least 17,400 children in Gaza, according to Palestinian officials. That is one child killed every 30 minutes. Thousands more are missing under the rubble, most of them…
Abdel Rahman Juma Barkalla is accused of leading a campaign marred by sexual and ethnically motivated violence. The United States has imposed sanctions on Abdel Rahman Juma Barkalla, whom it says is responsible for human rights abuses in West Darfur. The US Department of the Treasury outlined a series of…
About 18 percent of the population of Costa Rica, a country of about five million, lives with a disability. These individuals face difficulties when it comes to accessing education, work, and public spaces. Among these disabilities are visual impairments. As a 23-year-old living with an eye disease called keratoconus, which…
In the Philippines, the Tagalog word “pamamalo” refers to the corporal punishment of children. This violent means of domestic punishment, which typically involves beating a child by hand or with the use of household objects, is widely believed to be an effective form of discipline. Multiple studies, however, have shown…
Children in Lebanon are paying a heavy price for Israel’s war with Hezbollah. Check out our Latest News and Follow us at Facebook Original Source
Ministry says 589 women and at least 185 children have been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon over past 13 months. Israeli attacks on Lebanon have now killed more than 3,000 people in the 13 months since fighting erupted between Hezbollah and Israel along the southern Lebanese and northern Israeli…
‘It’s like home’ Martha was able to heal some of that trauma by reconnecting with her father before he died in 2005. “He sobered up in the later years,” she says. “He was getting sickly, but I would ask him things, [about our culture]. And he would bring me to…
In 2002, Robert Roberson found his two-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, unresponsive after she fell off a bed in the family’s house in the East Texas city of Palestine. Roberson took her to hospital, but a day later, the baby tragically died after succumbing to a head injury. Within a year,…
A Palestinian doctor tries to save severely malnourished children amid Israel’s US-backed illegal siege on Gaza. Ahmed Nasser is one of a handful of doctors in north Gaza treating scores of children for malnutrition. The odds of saving lives are against him as he does not have the resources he…
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