Although children may not be active consumers of Artificial intelligence, AI poses a great risk to children’s online safety. A new report Global Threat Assessment 2023 indicates that, from the first half of 2020 to 2022, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) reported a 360 percent increase in the instances of ‘self-generated’ sexual imagery of 7-10-year-olds. […]
Globally, at least one million children under 5 years die annually due to severe wasting, making it one of the top threats to child survival according to a new report by UNICEF. This is because severe wasting turns childhood illnesses into killer diseases. Children who are severely wasted succumb to those diseases because their bodies […]
As this year’s Customer Service Week comes to an end, Mtoto News would like to extend our heartfelt appreciation, recognition, and thankfulness to all our partners, friends, staff, children and readers. This year’s CWS theme, Team Service, wouldn’t be timelier as it is the seamless teamwork from all of YOU that we have been able […]
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 […]