PARIS (AA) – In the first initiative of its kind, the Catholic Church in France will begin the process of paying reparations to victims of sexual abuse in the church, offering financial compensation of up to €60,000 (about $64,000), an independent commission set up to investigate the criminal cases announced on Wednesday. Marie Derain de...
KYIV, Ukraine – Four more children were killed in Russian attacks in Ukraine over the past day, raising the war count to 238, Ukrainian authorities have said. An 11-year-old girl was fatally injured in Kharkiv, while three children aged 14, 15 and 17 were killed in Mariupol, according to the office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general. […]...
ANKARA – The Norwegian Child Welfare Services (Barnevernet) has long been criticized for controversial decisions against migrant families, most of which were Muslim, hailing from crisis-ridden Middle Eastern and North African countries. Since 2015, the Barnevernet’s practices, mostly taking away children from their families by citi...
The U.S. government will fly in baby formula on commercial planes contracted by the military, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said. The airlift is aimed at easing a major formula shortage plaguing the nation. The lack of formula — resulting from supply chain issues and a massive recall — is leaving parents increasingly desperate.
GENEVA (AA) – More than 160 million children are in child labor worldwide, said a report released on Wednesday by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and UN children’s agency UNICEF. In the report, the ILO and UNICEF warned that without relief strategies, the number of children in child labor could rise by 8.9 million by [&h...
ANKARA – At least 229 children have been killed and 424 others injured so far in the war with Russia, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Office has said. Children in the eastern Donetsk, north-central Kyiv, and northeastern Kharkiv regions have been the most affected in Ukraine, the office said in a statement. Russia’s daily bombin...
GENEVA (AA): Ukraine is facing “a child protection crisis of extraordinary proportions” which may not have been seen before, a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official has said. “Hundreds of children have been killed, and many more injured. Nearly 200 attacks have been reported against health care facilities, and schools co...
GAZA CITY, Palestine – Palestinian rights groups have condemned an Israeli court decision rejecting a request to reinvestigate the killing of four children by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2014. The four boys were killed in an Israeli airstrike while playing on a beach in the Gaza Strip on July 16, 2014. On Sunday April […]
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s north-central state of Niger has confirmed the accidental killing of six children by a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter jet in a local community. The Secretary to the Niger State government, Ahmed Ibrahim Matane, confirmed the incident to Anadolu Agency on Thursday, adding the children were killed during an...
KABUL (AA): More than 130 children have died from the measles epidemic in Afghanistan since the beginning of this year. After the US army withdrew from the country, international aid was cut off and the economic crisis deepened. Children are the most affected by war, hunger and poverty. At least 16,000 children have been infected […]
