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Conflict Displaced Them, Education Must Be Their Anchor
Authors: Jade McCulloch and Sopheak Srey*
Nearly a year has passed since fighting along the Cambodia–Thailand border first forced families from their homes. Renewed hostilities in...
Why Are Nigerian Schoolchildren Still Missing Nearly 100 Days After Their Abduction?
Families Demand Action as Children Remain Missing
Families in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state protested on Thursday, demanding that the government secure the release of children...
Our children, our children: The time is now for the Northern Areas and Townships of Gqeberha
We are fighting a desperate fight for every boy child and girl child in the crime-infested, gangridden northern areas in the Eastern Cape. We...
UNICEF Sounds Alarm Over Growing Suffering of Children in Gaza
UNICEF Communication Specialist, Salim Oweis, shared distressing stories from desperate parents in Gaza during a recent UN briefing. One mother, Hind, has not slept...
Education Cannot Stop at the Border: Protecting Children on the Move in Latin America and the Caribbean
Authors: Eladio Jiminez Made and Nicole Suarez Sabio*
Every day across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), many children cross borders, rivers, jungles and dangerous...
Turning the Tide at the G7 – School Meals for a Hungry World
These are dark days for international development. The UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with their promise of a world free of extreme poverty...
China to Eliminate Childbirth Costs Nationwide From 2026
China’s national healthcare security administration has announced that from 2026 it aims to fully cover all policy-approved medical expenses related to childbirth. This includes...
Nigeria Secures Release of 100 Kidnapped Schoolchildren, Local TV Reports
Around 100 schoolchildren abducted in a mass kidnapping in Niger state have been released, according to Channels Television. The attack on St. Mary’s Catholic...
A Generation at Risk: The World Must Urgently Invest in Children’s Education
Authors: Nafisa Binte Shafique and Said Yasin*
Every morning, a child somewhere in the world wakes to a day shaped by choices they did not...
Hope Restored: 23 Children Rescued from Russian-Occupied Ukraine
Twenty-three Ukrainian children and teenagers have been brought back from Russian-occupied areas to territory under Kyiv's control, according to President Zelenskyy's chief of staff,...