The number of children dying from vaccine-preventable causes in Vietnam has reduced significantly since 1981
Large swaths of Asia are sweltering through a heatwave that has topped temperature records from Myanmar to the Philippines and forced millions of children to stay home from school.
Children and adults are gobbling supplements. Risks? (First column, 12th story, link)
Shafaqna English- South and Southeast Asia braced for a searing heatwave that has gripped the region over the past week, in-person classes have been suspended for two days due to the extreme heat, forcing students to switch to remote learning. From the Philippines to Thailand, and India to Bangladesh, forecasters
Bangladesh has closed schools and colleges due to extreme heat for the
Asia was the world’s most disaster-hit region from climate and weather hazards in 2023, the United Nations said Tuesday, with floods and storms the chief cause of casualties and economic losses
Shafaqna English- The detention of 668 children on national security-related charges in Iraq, continue to be a concern, said a new report of the UN Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in Iraq released today. The Government must consider children as victims and therefore continue to take concrete steps to
Refugee Council sounds warning after children wrongly issued with notices of intent by Home OfficeUK politics – latest updatesLone child asylum seekers are at risk of being sent to Rwanda because the Home Office has wrongly classified some as adults, it has been claimed.The Refugee Council, which works with these children, has warned of the risk after more than a dozen of the children it works with were wrongly issued with notices of intent for Rwanda. Continue reading
The Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan has announced that the first round of the polio vaccination campaign for over 10 million children across Afghanistan will begin today. In a statement issued on Sunday, April 28th, the ministry stated that the first round of the polio vaccination campaign for the year current year will commence […]
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that Afghanistan’s 23.7 million people, including 12.3 million children, require humanitarian assistance in 2024. UNICEF states that only 35% of the required $1.4 billion in aid for children in Afghanistan has been secured. The organization released its latest report on the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan in March of […]
Asia was the world's most disaster-hit region from extreme weather and climate in 2023, exacerbated by climate change, according to a new UN report.
Officials urge municipalities to begin emergency planning after major