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 Australian Aboriginal kids have no birth record
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.
Japan ranked 34th out of 41 developed nations in UNICEF child poverty index
Japan has some of the worst wealth inequality and highest rates of child poverty among the world's developed nations, according to a UNICEF report.
UNICEF's head has urged Japan and other nations to be more receptive to refugees and migrants, saying some countries can benefit from helping accommodate the surging number of people displaced by conflicts worldwide. UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said in a recent interview that the ...
Tokyo woman's quest to help Africa's child soldiers return to normal lives
A UNICEF child protection officer from Japan is helping child soldiers in the Central African Republic return to society and lead normal lives. "We hope that they will return to being normal children and be allowed to play and laugh freely," Ryoko Ogawa, 35, said ...
Quake-displaced thousands flee Kathmandu as Nepal struggles to organize disaster relief
Nepalese officials scrambled on Monday to get aid from the main airport to people left homeless and hungry by a devastating earthquake two days earlier, while thousands tired of waiting fled the capital Kathmandu for the surrounding plains. By afternoon, the death toll from Saturday's ...
800,000 children have fled Boko Haram violence in Nigeria in year, UNICEF says
The number of children fleeing the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria doubled in the past year to about 800,000, with women and girls targets of abduction for sexual abuse by the militants, according to a United Nations Children's Fund report. Boko Haram's six-year campaign to ...
Chiba native helping to fight Ebola epidemic in West Africa
A Japanese UNICEF official says that communication, as well as medical treatment, is key in the fight against the Ebola outbreak in Africa and other epidemics. "Diseases readily curable at town doctors in Japan often cause deaths in Africa," said Yukiko Sakurai, a specialist in ...
Murakami joins U.N.-sponsored event to school Asian children
Takashi Murakami joins UNICEF, soccer club FC Barcelona and the Reach Out To Asia campaign to educate children in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Nepal.
