ISTANBUL (AA) – The latest data from the UK Defense Ministry has revealed that British soldiers were directly involved in the deaths of 135 children during their nine-year deployment in southern Afghanistan. The UK has already paid compensation to the families of 64 child victims. According to data compiled by the Action on Armed Violence [&he...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – Despite many obstacles, self-sacrificing Afghan women educators have taken it upon themselves to teach girls who are not allowed to go to school, child workers who contribute to their families’ livelihoods, and illiterate women. The Taliban, who came to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, have imposed restricti...
AFRIN, Syria (AA) – A 10-year-old girl is teaching her peers how to read and write, math, and Quranic recitation inside a tent-cum-classroom in northern Syria. Meryem Ahmed along with her mother had to take refuge in the Rahmet Camp in the central city of Afrin after losing her father in a 2017 attack by […]
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Gunmen have kidnapped at least 21 children, most of them girls, working on a farm in northwestern Nigeria, police and local officials said on Wednesday. Gambo Isah, a police spokesperson, told Anadolu Agency that “18 young women and three young men” were taken away from a farm in Faskari, an area […]
Ouallam, Niger (AFP): Hundreds of schoolchildren have begun attending school in the town of Ouallam in southwestern Niger, a region that for five years was plagued by attacks unleashed by the ISIS and groups linked with Al-Qaeda. The pupils come from 18 villages near Mali whose inhabitants fled to the relative safety of Ouallam in […]
Mogadishu, Somalia (AFP): At least nine people, including children, died on Saturday in twin car bomb attacks targeting Somalia’s education ministry in the capital Mogadishu, security officers and witnesses said. Two cars packed with explosives were detonated minutes apart near the busy Zobe junction and followed by gunfire, “I was...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia has said it will seek to retrieve a four-year-old child, who arrived in Italy on a migrant boat alone. In a statement, Tunisia’s Ministry of Women, Family, Children and Seniors said authorities are keen to take “all necessary arrangements to secure the child’s return to the homeland.” The four-year-old girl [&hell...
The past quarter century witnessed an unprecedented decline in child poverty rates in the United States. Today, roughly 1 in 10 children live in families whose economic resources are below the poverty line — a 59% drop over the last 26 years. In 1993, the numbers were more than one in four children. The magnitude […]
American students saw big declines in reading and math scores after years of disrupted learning due to the pandemic. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation’s Report Card, released full data Monday for the first time since 2019. The 2021 exams were postponed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. NAEP […]...
A Boston-based research team on Friday released a study showing a huge jump in U.S. households not having enough food. The study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, focuses on food insufficiency. Researchers found ending the monthly payments “was associated with a 25% increase in household food insufficiency by early July 2022.” The g...
