The mayor of New York is a US citizen. This video shared on TikTok claiming that a Kenyan was elected mayor of New York City in the United States of America, is FALSE. The video depicts New York City Mayor Eric Adams addressing a gathering, with the flags of Kenya and the United States hoisted […]
The Kenyan government has announced that it will abolish all privately owned orphanages and children’s homes within the next eight years. This was said by the Cabinet Secretary of Labour and Social Protection Florence Bore saying this is aimed at combating child trafficking. She said the children would be placed in family and community care, […]
A new UNICEF-World Bank report indicates that about 333 million children globally, or 1 in 6, live in extreme poverty. The report found that the economic impact of COVID-19 led to three lost years of progress or 30 million fewer children than projected in the absence of COVID-19-related disruptions. Before Covid19 the number of children living […]
Two-thirds of child-related 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators are off-pace to meet their targets, according to a new UNICEF report released recently. This is worrying as the world is at the halfway mark towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report, Progress on Children’s Well-Being: Centring child rights in the 2030 Agenda warns […]
The Joining Forces Alliance called to action children’s right to participate in matters that affect them. The call was made during the United Nations General Assembly, on 19 September 2023 in New York,USA. Joining Forces agencies sought to mobilize around the Call to Action to demand greater financial investments and political will by governments and […]
About 77 percent of pregnant teenage mothers in Korogocho slums reported having unintended pregnancies in a research conducted by the African Population Health and Research Centre. Approximately 72 percent were single and 49 percent were still in school at the time they became pregnant for the first time. Most girls first had sex while still […]
Due to their vulnerability, children are at the most risk of exploitation, abuse and harm by people who come into contact with them. These risks greatly multiply when children travel locally or internationally or are separated from their families. Therefore, it is paramount for organizations that come into contact with children to set up and […]
Over 1 billion children around the world are at extremely high risk of severe and destructive climate hazards according to various research. A recent report by UNICEF shows that children in 98 percent of African countries are at high or extremely high risk of the impacts of climate change. They face multiple climate-related impacts such […]
Children in 98 percent of African countries are at high or extremely high risk of the impacts of climate change according to a new report by UNICEF. According to the report, Time to Act: African Children in the Climate Change Spotlight, children in 48 out of 49 African countries assessed are categorized as at high or extremely […]
Over 250 children drawn from different African countries converged for a two-day Children Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya. The Summit which, commenced on 2nd September, is a dialogue session with the policymakers on climate change and how it affects children and the way forward to formulating strategies that protect children against climate shocks. The summit […]