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The long-term consequences of COVID-19 have been tough for children around the world, but even more so for young children already in humanitarian crises, whether due to conflict, natural disasters, or economic and political upheaval. Young Children in Humanitarian and COVID-19 Crises: (2024), edited by Sweta Shah and Lucy Bassett, investigates how organizations around the world responded to these dual challenges, identifying solutions and learning opportunities to help to support young children in ongoing and future crises. Drawing on research and voices from the Global South…
The UN's top court has ordered Israel to enable the unhindered flow of aid into Gaza in order to avert a famine.
In a unanimous decision, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Israel had to act "without delay" to allow the "provision... of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance".
This follows warnings that famine could hit Gaza within weeks.
Israel has called allegations it is blocking aid "wholly unfounded".
Giving its response to the court order, the Israeli foreign ministry said it was continuing "to promote new initiatives, and to…
A Palestinian boy has been talking about living on his own in Gaza after his mother had to leave with his injured sister. UNICEF says there are thousands of unaccompanied children in Gaza after five months of Israel’s war.
An aid official who travelled the length of Gaza this week has described scenes of “utter annihilation”, with “nothing left” of what were once thriving and crowded cities in the territory.
“The depth of the horror surpasses our ability to describe it,” said James Elder, a spokesperson with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).
“As soon as you drive through the north, you get that universal gesture of hunger of people putting their hands to their mouths. A lot of children, women with very gaunt faces. In [the city of] Khan Younis, there is utter annihilation.
“I’ve not seen…
At least 17,000 children in the Gaza Strip have been left unaccompanied or separated from their families nearly four months into Israel’s assault on the enclave, the United Nations children’s agency estimates.
Nearly all children in the strip also require mental health support, UNICEF said on Friday.
“Each [child] has a heartbreaking story of loss and grief,” said Jonathan Crickx, UNICEF’s chief of communication for the occupied Palestinian territories.
“This [17,000] figure corresponds to 1 percent of the overall displaced population – 1.7 million people,” he told a media briefing…
Rabat - Amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has revealed an estimate of at least 17,000 children who are unaccompanied or separated from their families.
Speaking at a virtual press conference from Jerusalem, UNICEF spokesperson for Palestinian territories, Jonathan Crickx, emphasized the immense difficulty in locating these children, stating that at times,…
Born amid the horrors of the war in Gaza, the month-old baby girl lying in an incubator has never known a parent's embrace.
She was delivered by Caesarean section after her mother, Hanna, was crushed in an Israeli air strike. Hanna did not live to name her daughter.
"We just call her the daughter of Hanna Abu Amsha," says nurse Warda al-Awawda, who is caring for the tiny newborn at the al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC/the Committee), in collaboration with African Union Member States, partner organizations, children and young people, launched the first of its kind Continental Study on Children Without Parental Care (CWPC) in Africa. The study, conducted from 2020 to 2022, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, covered over 43 countries in the five regions of Africa.
Even though girls and women make up increasing proportions of the international migrant population of North Africa, and despite the prevalence of studies on migration in, through, and to North Africa, there is limited research focusing specifically on the experiences of women and girls. Girls who migrate face exposure to intersecting risks that can interfere with their ability to realise their human rights and fulfil their potential as individuals. Restrictive gender norms and gender inequalities affect critical aspects of girls’ migration journeys, influencing their motivations and decisions…
This week Al Israa University became the latest major public building in Gaza to disappear from the map, blown up and destroyed by Israeli forces who had reportedly used it as a military base for several weeks.
The war in Gaza has already let to an unprecedented loss of life, but there's also growing concern about the destruction of public and private buildings.
Now a senior UN official has told BBC News of his fears that the widespread damage will lead to a "lost generation" of young people.
Israel declared war on Hamas after the group led a massive attack on…