An Indian court has given a woman permission to divorce her husband because their home did not have a toilet, forcing her to seek relief outdoors. The family court in the northwestern state of Rajasthan ruled Friday in favor of the woman, who argued that ...
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 ...
It struck a chord in her heart when displaced children in a conflict-stricken region of Myanmar told UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, a renowned author, actress and TV host, that there won't be war if people of different ethnicities and religions simply got along. "We ...
The United Nations warned Tuesday of a growing risk of mass deaths from starvation in areas of the Horn of Africa, Yemen and Nigeria that are affected by conflict and drought. An "avoidable humanitarian crisis ... is fast becoming an inevitability" as the U.N. faces ...
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 ...
Hungary said Monday it was ready to begin detaining asylum-seekers in camps on its southern border with Serbia after passing a law this month that has drawn criticism from rights groups and the U.N. Hungary's parliament approved on March 7 the systematic detention of all ...
Iraqi forces retook the last area of Mosul east of the Tigris River Tuesday, 100 days into an offensive whose next phase aid groups warned could have dire consequences for civilians. Army units flushed out fighters of the Islamic State group from a rural area ...
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 ...
Hundreds of Syrians stood in long lines Sunday, some getting on government buses, to flee the ever shrinking rebel-held enclave of eastern Aleppo as military troops and allied militias continued their push to regain full control of the opposition stronghold. Syria's state news agency said ...
Naoko Imoto, a former Japanese Olympic swimmer, felt blessed in many ways compared with athletes from many other countries. While she could practice in a supportive environment in terms of food and facilities, athletes from many other countries had no such opportunities. The realization that she ...
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.
