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 […]
In response to the escalating global crises, world leaders came together at the SDG Summit on September 18 and 19 at the UN headquarters in New York and made a historic commitment to step up their efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were formed in […]
Ripoti za awali zinaonyesha kwamba takriban watoto 100,000 wameathiriwa na tetemeko kubwa la ardhi lililoikumba Moroko Ijumaa usiku wa kuamkia leo. Hilo ni tukio kubwa zaidi la tetemeko kuwahi kukumba eneo hilo tangu mwaka wa 1960. Kama ilivyo kwa matetemeko yote makubwa ya ardhi, kuna uwezekano wa kutokea mitetemeko ya baadaye katika siku na wiki […]
In a new landmark UN document published today in Geneva, governments will need to recognize that inaction on the climate crisis is a child rights violation. Further, it urges governments to factor environmental concerns into their efforts to protect and fulfill children’s rights and empower and protect child activists. In the report General Comment No. 26 […]
An estimated two million children have been displaced in Sudan since the war erupted four months ago. This translates to an average of more than 700 children newly displaced every according to UNICEF. Additionally, over 1.7 million children are estimated to be on the move within Sudan’s borders and more than 470,000 have crossed into […]