Tunis police raid sees refugees abandoned near the border with Algeria | Refugees News

Tunis police raid sees refugees abandoned near the border with Algeria | Refugees News

Tunis, Tunisia – Teams of refuse workers are busy in the deserted alleyway outside the International Organization for Migration (IOM) offices in Tunis. A nearby park stands empty. In both, large piles of refuse are the only evidence of the hundreds of sub-Saharan African refugees and migrants who sheltered here…

Child marriage is a problem in the US that needs urgent action | Child Rights

Child marriage is a problem in the US that needs urgent action | Child Rights

On April 4, the state legislature in Virginia voted to amend state law, raising the marriage age to 18. A couple of days later, Governor Glenn Youngkin signed this measure into law. Coming amid Sexual Assault Awareness Month in the US, this vote was an important victory for child rights….

Qatar pledges $3m to Ukrainian human rights body | Russia-Ukraine war News

Qatar pledges $3m to Ukrainian human rights body | Russia-Ukraine war News

Funds aim to provide support for children, others affected by armed conflict in Ukraine, Qatari foreign ministry says. Qatar has announced that it will provide $3m to the office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, as part of a push to support “welfare and safety” in the war-torn…

Israeli attack kills 10, mostly children, in Gaza’s Rafah | Israel War on Gaza News

Israeli attack kills 10, mostly children, in Gaza’s Rafah | Israel War on Gaza News

An Israeli air strike on a house in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah killed at least 10 people, including six children, hospital authorities said, as Israel pursues its nearly seven-month offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory. Funerals were held on Saturday for those killed in the deadly strike on Rafah’s…

Cass Review: A victory for women, children and common sense | Women’s Rights

Cass Review: A victory for women, children and common sense | Women’s Rights

In England, a landmark independent review into gender care services for young people has exposed one of the biggest medical negligence scandals of recent times and vindicated those who have been accused of engaging in malicious “culture wars” and branded as unkind bigots for opposing unnecessary medicalisation of children. The…

Why mass kidnappings still plague Nigeria a decade after Chibok abductions | Armed Groups News

Why mass kidnappings still plague Nigeria a decade after Chibok abductions | Armed Groups News

Lagos, Nigeria – In the decade since the armed group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 students at an all-girls school in the town of Chibok, abductions have become a recurrent fixture in Nigeria, especially in the restive northern regions. Just last month, on March 7, a criminal gang kidnapped 287…

UN says acute malnutrition spreading fast among children in Gaza | Israel War on Gaza News

UN says acute malnutrition spreading fast among children in Gaza | Israel War on Gaza News

Israel says it will send a delegation to Qatar for more talks with mediators after Hamas presented a new truce proposal. The main United Nations aid agency operating in Gaza has said that acute malnutrition was accelerating in the north of the Palestinian enclave as Israel prepared to send a…