Child rights Stories

Children in DRC, Somalia, Nigeria bore brunt of war in 2024 - UN
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Jun 20, 2025

2024 saw a record 41,370 grave violations against children,the highest number verified in nearly 30 years of monitoring/

Displaced and vulnerable: The growing humanitarian crisis facing children in IGAD region
Charity Kilei  |  Jun 16, 2025

According to IGAD, 25 per cent of all migrants in Africa are children, and the majority of these children come from the East African region.

Humanitarian organisations call for urgent interventions in Sudan as crisis deepens
Mary Wambui  |  Mar 14, 2025

Since the war erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their associated militias in April 2023, tens of...

EU Ambassador to Madagascar expelled for criticising castration law
Lucy Mumbi  |  Apr 07, 2024

The law, approved by the Malagasy parliament in early February, sanctions both chemical and surgical castration for individuals convicted of sexually...

Southern Madagascar, where girls are sold into marriage before they are born
UN News  |  Mar 17, 2024

Efforts are being made in the south of Madagascar to end a traditional but illegal practice in which girls are promised as a wife to older men, someti...

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