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‘Africa is on the frontlines but not the front pages’: Vanessa Nakate on her climate fight

The new Unicef goodwill ambassador would like to see reparations from nations most responsible for climate crisis

The Guardian - US

Who funds CPR, the ‘centrist’ think tank under Income Tax scanner?

The Centre for Policy Research, which has recently come under the tax scanner for alleged irregularities in funding, prides itself on staying true to its “non-partisan” and “independent” values. Since its inception in 1973, the think tank has undertaken studies on almost every topic under the sun, and its academic…

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New UNICEF Ambassador Seeks to Give Louder Voice to Climate Change Victims

Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate recently traveled to the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa to hear from children suffering from starvation. The next day she learned that one of the boys she met had died. It is for such children, whose lives have been shattered by the global climate crisis, that…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Nakate: Leaders are missing the human face of climate change

Vanessa Nakate’s climate activism over the past three years has propelled her to the world stage as UNICEF's newest goodwill ambassador

The Independent UK

UNICEF names climate activist Vanessa Nakate goodwill ambassador

U.N. children's agency UNICEF on Thursday named Vanessa Nakate, a 25-year-old Ugandan climate activist, goodwill ambassador.

Reuters

Move to enrol out-of-school children in schools in A.P.

Unicef app to be used for the purpose in a few districts initially

The Hindu

Ukraine seeks to trace thousands of 'orphans' scattered by war

Ukraine says it dismissed nearly 100,000 children from institutional care. With help from U.N. child agency UNICEF, it is still trying to reach some 26,000 of them.

Reuters

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Police seek to build trust with child victims in India's Rajasthan

In many parts of the western Indian state of Rajasthan, child labour is prevalent, with those forced to do menial jobs often victims of trafficking. Handling rescued children is a sensitive process that requires special skills – something the police are looking to improve on.

Radio France Internationale

Afghan girls take to streets to protest school closure in Paktia

Dozens of girls rally in Gardez after Taliban shuts four schools, which were reopened on intervention of tribal elders.

Al Jazeera

A child's death highlights threat posed to young by Pakistan's floods

In the hours before her six-year-old son died in her lap, Badar Bibi recalled how she rushed from a field clinic set up to treat people caught in Pakistan's worst floods in decades to a city hospital, desperate to bring down the boy's fever.

Reuters

UN: More Than 700 Children Die in Somalia Nutrition Centers

Hundreds of children have already died in nutrition centers across Somalia, the UN children's agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, a day after the global body warned that parts of Somalia will be hit by famine in the coming months. The Horn of Africa region is on track for a fifth…

Asharq Al-Awsat

More than 700 children have died in Somalia nutrition centres, U.N. says

Hundreds of children have died in nutrition centres across Somalia, the U.N. children's agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, a day after the global body warned that parts of the country will be hit by famine in coming months.

Reuters

Measles outbreak in Zimbabwe kills 700 children despite available vaccine

UNICEF says it is "deeply concerned" after Zimbabwe's health ministry confirmed that nearly 700 children have died from the latest outbreak of measles. A vaccine campaign is underway but faces resistance from anti-vaccine religious groups.

Radio France Internationale

UNHCR rushes aid to Pakistan amid raging floods in south

Officials say four planes carrying aid for Pakistani flood victims from the UN refugee are arriving in this impoverished Islamic nation

The Independent UK

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Powerful agents of change

Children and youth who are stateless, migrants or urban refugees are often unseen and unheard. But with access to support and tools for empowerment, they can develop their potential to advocate for their rights within their homes, schools and communities -- no matter their legal status, citizenship or country of…

The Independent UK

Pakistan breaches lake to help save city from flooding as death toll climbs to 1,300

Pakistani engineers cut into embankment for one of country’s largest lakes

Daily Mirror

Heartbreaking attempt by teachers to decorate bomb shelters transformed into makeshift classrooms in Ukraine

Ukrainian teachers have taken to decorating bomb shelters as children return to school in the country. The war is still raging on, but brave teachers and pupils are continuing their education

Reuters

Many more children may die in Pakistan after floods, UN says

The United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) said on Friday there was a risk of "many more" child deaths in Pakistan from disease after floods claimed the lives of around 400.

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The Independent UK

It's back to school in Ukraine -- but far from normal

It's the first day of school in Ukraine, but children won't be sharing memories from their holidays

Bangkok Post

Poor youth mental health is costing Thailand

I know children and adolescents to be incredibly resilient, as a mother of three and in my work with Unicef. But their mental health has seriously suffered from the grief, uncertainty, isolation and stress over the past years of Covid-19 and well before that. As recent tragic cases of youth…

The Guardian - UK

Living on scraps: the Zimbabwe children who eke out a living from rusty metal

Nearly half of all children in the crisis-hit country have had to drop out of school to earn enough to eat. For some, collecting scrap metal offers a meagre living

Al Jazeera

UN condemns deadly air raid that ‘hit kindergarten’ in Tigray

UNICEF calls on all parties to agree to an ‘immediate cessation of hostilities’ as the federal gov’t denies involvement.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Condemns Airstrike in Ethiopia that 'Hit Kindergarten'

The UN children's agency UNICEF on Saturday condemned an air strike that "hit a kindergarten" in Ethiopia's Tigray region, killing at least four people including two children. Friday's strike in the Tigray capital Mekele came days after fighting erupted on the region's southern border between government forces and rebels, ending…

ABC News

Tasmania's Ashley youth prison closure must be brought forward, children's commissioner, advocates say

One of the people instrumental in the examination of the notorious Don Dale youth prison in Darwin says Tasmania's government should "learn from the example" of how the Northern Territory went against the recommendations of a damning royal commission into its facility for young offenders.

Reuters

Eight children dead, more missing as flooding destroys Afghan homes

At least eight children were killed in floods that swept away houses in central and eastern Afghanistan this week, the United Nations' children's agency said on Tuesday, adding that more children were missing.

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