Greening: UK to ‘break chains of dependency’ for women around the world
At a major UN Summit in New York, International Development Secretary Justine Greening announced new funding to help women in Nepal get jobs and combat violence against teenage girls in Ghana, as well as new work to help rip up laws that discriminate...
UNICEF: Sustainable Development Goals beginning of the 'drive to turn commitments into action’
UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake speaks at the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on the 25th...
No ‘Paradise on Earth’: Why Japan Should Right a Historic Wrong
Kawasaki Eiko, a second-generation ethnic Korean, grew up in economically devastated post-World War II Japan, hearing stories spun by the government in Pyongyang about the possibility of a bright future in North Korea. At age 17, she made the biggest...
Armenia: Activist Brutally Beaten
A member of an independent political group critical of the Armenian government was savagely beaten after a protest in Yerevan, the capital, on September 21, 2015, Human Rights Watch said on September 22. The authorities should immediately investigate...
UN: Press Thai Premier on Abuses
World leaders gathered for the United Nations General Assembly should urge Thailand’s prime minister, Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha, to end repression of human rights and quickly restore democratic civilian rule, Human Rights Watch said on September 23.
Philippines: UN experts calls for probe into killings of indigenous rights defenders
Philippine army troops on combat patrol in Maguindanao Province, Mindanao.
Over 1.4 million children forced to flee conflict in Nigeria and region
A sharp increase in attacks by the armed group commonly known as Boko Haram has uprooted 500,000 children over the past five months, bringing the total number of children on the run in northeast Nigeria and neighbouring countries to 1.4 million,...
In Serbia One In Four Refugee Children Arrive Alone, Save the Children Reports
Save the Children is stepping up its emergency response to the refugee crisis in Serbia, where more than 25,000 children have arrived this year alone, including at least 5,753 unaccompanied minors.
UNICEF: Refugee and migrant children in Hungary “need to be treated with dignity”
"UNICEF is in touch with the Government of Hungary's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York to discuss how refugee and migrant children can be adequately protected in line with the country’s commitments to the Convention on the...
Niger: International community must match generosity of host communities in Niger
Toby Lanzer, the Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel, on 18 September commended the immense generosity of Niger’s communities and Government who host those fleeing the violence in neighboring northeast Nigeria. He welcomed efforts by...
