71 UN member states have signed a call to action statement aimed at proactively removing and combating child sexual exploitation and abuse material online. This comes at a time when online child sexual exploitation and abuse continue to rise at exponential rates across the world and increasingly involve younger children. In the Internet Watch Foundation Annual […]
Kenya Secondary School Heads Association (KESSHA) has proposed the increment of capitation from the current figure of Sh22,244 to Sh30,000 per student. This was proposed by the Association’s chairman Kahi Indimuli during the annual conference of school heads in Mombasa. This, he said, is due to the recent increase in commodity prices and late disbursement of […]
Secondary School students will not be able to transfer to other public schools mid-year after the government banned the same. Supporting this directive, the Director of Secondary Education Paul Kibet said that transferring a student mid-year makes it hard for school principals to reconcile the amount of fee to be paid. He added that some […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new package of measures, the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED), to monitor the development of young children at population level up to three years of age. This, the organization says, will allow for a comprehensive assessment of the development of young children up to 36 months of […]
A 17 year- old boy has died in Nyamira County after being beaten by his sibling and parents over missing sh 50. According to police, the incident occurred in Iganeitambe village after the deceased’s elder brother reported his Sh50 was missing and the suspect was his younger brother. This led the brother to start a […]
The Chief Justice of Kenya Hon Martha Koome has today launched the Child Justice and SGBV Strategy and Convicted Sexual Offenders Electronic Register at Kibera law Courts Nairobi. The initiatives are on spar with the strategic focus of the judiciary to transform systems into people centered one that upholds the dignity and rights of especially […]
Only 2.4 percent of key global climate funds can be classified as supporting child-responsive activities, a new report by Children’s Environmental Rights Initiative (CERI) coalition; Plan International, Save the Children, and UNICEF. They said children are being failed by climate funding commitments, despite bearing the brunt of the climate crisis. They argued that every child […]
A two-year-old boy from Ohio, USA shot and killed his eight- months-pregnant mother while playing with a gun he allegedly found on his parents’ nightstand, police said. According to police that responded to a 911 call from their house last Friday at around 1:15 p.m, the mother had been shot in the back by her […]
More than 39 public schools and ECDE Centres in Nairobi received their title deeds after years of waiting. These title deeds were issued by Nairobi governor Johnson Sakaja on Thursday where over 2,000 title deeds were issued to public institutions around Nairobi. The move is aimed at granting ownership to the schools whilst providing protection against […]
The cultural expectation of sex and judgmental attitude toward unmarried girls seeking reproductive health services are major hindrances to increasing adolescents’ access to sexual and reproductive health information and services in Malawi. This is according to a report by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) in a country where about one in three […]