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 […]
Kamati ya Kimataifa ya Maendeleo ya Watu (CISP) imezindua mradi wa Tetea hapo jana tarehe 20 mwezi juni, unaofadhiliwa na Muungano wa Ulaya wa kulinda wanawake na watoto dhidi ya dhuluma katika Kaunti ya Kakamega. Mradi huo utatekelezwa na CISP kwa ushirikiano na Shirika Lisilo la Kiserikali la eneo hilo, Kakamega County Widows Empowerment […]
Uganda Child Right NGO Network {UCRNN} has called upon the government to bring to book the perpetrators who killed 42 students from Lhubiriha Secondary School in Nyabugando Town Council, Kesese District last Friday. Further, they have urged the government to ensure that the 6 abducted children are immediately released and resettled with their families and […]
Every child has a right to live and the government must ensure as much as possible a good life and development of a child but, that is brought to question when the ADF rebels cost the lives of 42 children on the night of June 16, 2023 with 6 abducted from Mpondwe/ Lubiriha Secondary […]
Thousands of displaced children on the South Sudanese side of the border with Sudan are at risk of deadly cholera outbreaks due to flooding and lack of adequate sewage systems. This was said by Save the Children who reported that Cases of cholera have already been reported in resettlement camps in Malakal, where many of the refugees […]
At least 38 students, and a number of civilians, have been killed in a suspected rebel attack on a school in Uganda. The victims were burned, shot, or hacked to death after suspected rebels attacked a Lhubiriha Secondary School near the border with Congo, the local mayor said on Saturday. According to Uganda police, the […]
Kila mtoto ana haki ya kuishi na serikali lazima ihakikishe kwa kadiri iwezekanavyo maisha mema na ukuaji wa mtoto, lakini hilo linatiliwa shaka wakati mashambulizi ya waasi wa ADF yalipogharimu maisha ya watoto 42 wasio na hatia usiku wa Juni 16, 2023. Kwa mujibu wa polisi, shule ya sekondari ya Lhubirira iliyoko Mpondwe iliyoko kilomita […]