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Health experts warn that crushing tablets or opening capsules to make medicine easier for children to swallow can alter dosage, reduce effectiveness,...
The humanitarian organisation reckons that more than half of these abuses occurred in just four places, the occupied Palestinian territory, the Democr...
They analysed data from over 1,000 participants across two long-term Danish cohorts, including children aged 10 and adolescents aged 18, to investigat...
The Sh120 million programme at KNH will fund life-changing ear implants for children with severe hearing loss, making advanced treatment accessible un...
She urged the National Treasury and county governments to significantly increase funding for child protection services, including the judicial infrast...
The study noted that seven in ten parents knew of the laws designed to protect children, yet two-thirds of children said they did not know where to se...
Similar to the general population, the report highlights that extreme poverty among children is increasingly concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and pl...
According to Gaza's health ministry, at least 461 people, including 157 children, have died from malnutrition since the war began in October 2023, mos...
Armed gangs now control over 85 per cent of the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, as well as key roads, cutting families off from food, healthcare, p...
UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires said that, on average, one child has been killed or injured every 17 minutes, describing the figure as "unacceptable...
The flotilla, comprising multiple vessels carrying hundreds of activists from 44 countries, was stopped about 70 nautical miles off the Gaza coast, wh...
Children aged 12 to 13 are presumed incapable unless it is proven that they understood the nature and wrongfulness of their actions.
According to the UN health agency, all but one of the dozen reported attacks on healthcare between September 7 and September 17 have been in Gaza Cit...
The minors, who also face charges of being in Kenya illegally, damaging a national symbol, and causing disturbance, did not take a plea.
In 2024, the findings show that over 311 million children in the region lived in households surviving on less than $3 (Sh388) a day, the revised globa...
On September 18, 2025, Ganze Sub-County Director of Education Mariam Ngome wrote to the organisation ordering an immediate halt to all donations and s...
In July, Save the Children deployed 25 outreach sites across Turkana to provide health and nutrition services for children and adults in the hardest-h...
Large numbers of students remain out of school because of mass displacement, limited teaching staff, lack of learning materials, and restricted access...
I left Gaza, but Gaza never left me. It lives in my dreams, in my fears, and in my children's questions. I hope - yes, I still hope - to return someda...
UNICEF is urging African governments to protect children’s diets from unhealthy ingredients
The funds cover stipends for the June and July 2025 payment cycles under the Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (CT-OVC) Programme, par...
The landslide, caused by torrential rains on Sunday, August 31, 2025, cut off road access, delaying the arrival of emergency workers. It was only on T...
Only 44 out of 92 UNICEF-supported outpatient nutrition treatment centres are still functional, which means thousands of malnourished children lack ac...
His story is one of resilience and offers hope to other members of Nairobi’s street families, whose lives are too often marked by suffering and despai...
According to CRPD, displacement orders issued by Israel in Gaza have posed challenges for vulnerable groups, particularly those with hearing and visua...
The heaviest impact is expected in regions that are already vulnerable. West and Central Africa could see 1.9 million children lose access to school,...
In a world full of smartphones, tablets, and computers, how much media time is acceptable at what stage of life? Though there's little data on the iss...
The Christian Council of Kenya’s involvement reveals the variety of ways that NGOs became involved, and sometimes implicated, in policies of colonial...
Children in northern Kenya, particularly in Turkana County, are increasingly vulnerable to escalating malnutrition and food insecurity because of repe...
The OHCHR spokesperson told journalists in Geneva that Israeli authorities had carried out investigations in the past, as the occupying power.
