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Ebola survivors returning home to fear, stigma in Congo war zone
Leoni Kahumbu remembers the night her 15-year-old daughter, Pascaline, first showed signs of Ebola. She found her fainted on the bathroom floor, blood everywhere. "She did not even have the strength to get up. ... I called an ambulance," Kahumbu said. Experts came to their ...
U.N. warns of 'lost generation' of Rohingya children as half a million languish in refugee camps
The United Nations warned on Thursday of what it described as a lost generation of Muslim Rohingya children, with half a million in refugee camps in Bangladesh facing dangers including disease and floods and those still in Myanmar lacking access to proper education. One year ...
UNICEF and Lixil join hands to improve toilet access for children
UNICEF and major water and housing equipment maker Lixil Corp. announced on Thursday that they forged a partnership to address sanitation problems that put hundreds of children in danger every day. A joint agreement entitled "Make a splash! Toilets for Everyone!" aims to achieve one ...
North Korea data show slight children's health gains but third of drinking water contaminated: U.N.
New data from North Korea show a "slight" improvement in children's health, the United Nations reported Wednesday, saying the isolated nation had made a step forward by providing better information about the condition of its people. The findings published by UNICEF were based on surveys ...
UNICEF number two resigns after complaints of inappropriate behavior
UNICEF deputy director Justin Forsyth resigned from the U.N. children's agency on Thursday following complaints of inappropriate behavior toward female staff in his previous post as head of British charity Save The Children. He apologized again for his past "mistakes," but said his decision to ...
Italy says EU will take in 10,000 stranded refugees from Libya in 2018 via 'humanitarian corridors'
Rome Up to 10,000 people stranded in refugee camps and detention centers in Libya could be relocated to Europe in 2018, the Italian government said on Sunday. The initiative would be part of an attempt by EU countries to address the deteriorating conditions in Libya, where ...
Starving Rohingya girls and women in refugee camps seen forced to engage in clandestine prostitution
As Rohingya women struggle to access even the very basics such as food and water in Bangladesh's overcrowded camps, a flourishing sex trade offers cash in times of desperation. Four women entered the clean-swept mud hut, took off their black shawls and sat cross-legged on ...
UNICEF child poverty study places Japan 32nd among 41 countries
Japan ranks 32nd among 41 developed countries in addressing income inequality involving families with children while countries like Norway and Finland have done exceptionally well, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations Children's Fund. Assessed on the reduction in the number of ...
UNICEF reports 2017 spike in Boko Haram's use of child suicide bombers
The use of children as suicide bombers by the insurgents of Boko Haram has surged in 2017, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Wednesday. In the countries fighting Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region — Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad — 27 children ...
Bus torchings cloud Aleppo evacuation effort as Russia threatens to veto U.N. resolution for access
Convoys of evacuees traveled from a rebel-held area of Aleppo and from two Shiite villages besieged by insurgents on Monday after a days-long stand-off. Dozens of buses carrying thousands of people from Aleppo's tiny rebel zone reached insurgent areas of countryside to the west of ...
Some 20% of Western Australia Aborigine kids have no birth record: research
Nearly 1 in 5 Aboriginal children born in Western Australia has no birth documents with most unregistered children born to teenage mothers and facing further social disadvantage later in life, research showed on Sunday. A study published in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of ...
The government has long failed to take effective action to reverse Japan's child poverty rate.
