The U.N. children’s agency says an armed group in South Sudan has abducted 89 boys in a northern state. UNICEF said in a statement Saturday that the boys, some as young as 13, were abducted near Malakal, the capital of Upper Nile state. The statement said a UNICEF education team[…]
Millions of children suffered under extreme violence, destruction and forced displacement in 2014, the UN Children’s Fund said in a statement Monday. “Never in recent history were so many children exposed to such unspeakable brutality,” UNICEF director Anthony Lake said, referencing children who had been kidnapped, tortured, raped or sold[…]
Twenty-nine days of fighting between Israel and Hamas broke out on July 8 and expanded with an Israeli ground assault nine days later. A truce came into effect Tuesday. Here is a summary of the chief statistics as the 72-hour ceasefire began: DEATH TOLL In Gaza, 1,867 Palestinians have been[…]
With seemingly no end in sight for the Israeli government’s Operation Protective Edge, children’s humanitarian organisation UNICEF has estimated that one in every three civilian casualties of the two week long offensive, have been children under the age of 18. Latest statistics put the current death toll in the Gaza[…]
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