LONDON: Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) – a cheap and effective treatment for diarrhoea — can save lives of half a million children every year, according to a study. A whopping 500,000 children under five die of diarrhoea globally. India accounts for the most cases of child diarrhoea
KYIV: Ukraine’s human rights commissioner has called for more international pressure on Moscow to help Kyiv bring home thousands of Ukrainian children who Kyiv says have been illegally taken to Russia during the war. Dmytro Lubinets spoke to Reuters in Kyiv days after several minors were
Geneva: Air pollution still causes more than 1,200 premature deaths a year in under 18's across Europe and increases the risk of chronic disease later in life, the EU environmental agency said Monday. Despite recent improvements, “the level of key air pollutants in many European countries
Moscow: Russia's commissioner for children's rights on Tuesday dismissed International Criminal Court (ICC) allegations that she was responsible for unlawfully deporting children from Ukraine as false. The Hague-based ICC on March 17 issued arrest warrants for President Vladimir Putin and Children's Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova for the
United Nations: A staggering 78 million girls and boys around the world today “don’t go to school at all” because of conflict, climate disasters and displacement – while tens of millions more receive only sporadic teaching – UN Secretary-General António Guterres said. Lending his support to
Children in Indian Administered Kashmir are suffering worst kind of persecution at the hands of Indian occupation forces. 915 children are among the 96,175 people martyred by the troops since 01 January 1989 till date. Article (7) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
New York: United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) stated in its latest report that children from poorest households were benefitting the least from national education spending thus fueling the learning crisis in the world. The report titled “Transforming Education with Equitable Financing” found the disparity
Geneva: The United Nations called for urgent funding to help 30 million children suffering from acute malnutrition "before it is too late" in countries being hammered by the food crisis. UN agencies said conflict, climate shocks, the Covid-19 pandemic and rising living costs were leaving an
London: Children repatriated from camps for former Daesh families in northeast Syria are “building new lives” in their home countries, according to Human Rights Watch report published on Monday.
Srinagar: Indian troops in their unabated acts of state terrorism have martyred 915 children during the last thirty four years in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).