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Gangs in Haiti are recruiting children and targeting them with violence and sexual assault, Amnesty International said in a report detailing the effects of the long-running civil unrest ravaging the Caribbean nation. A report published estimates that more than one million children live in areas...

The number of internally displaced children in Haiti has increased by nearly 50 percent since September 2024. As a result of ongoing violence caused by armed groups, displaced children are approximately one in eight across the entire country. According to the latest estimates, there are now over one...

Special Envoy Hans Grundberg highlighted the alarming trend of escalation provoked by Yemen’s Houthi forces who began attacking international shipping in the Red Sea last year in support of Hamas operations in Gaza. The Yemen attacks provoked retaliatory strikes by multiple states, including the...

An authoritative study from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that the world is entering a new era of crisis for children. With climate change, inequality, and conflict disrupting young lives and placing limitations on their futures. At the beginning of each year, UNICEF looks ahead to the...

The Nigerian government is facing increasing pressure to drop charges against dozens of minors amid an uproar over detention conditions since they were arrested over their alleged participation in protests against the high cost of living. A total of 76 people, including 30 children, were arraigned...

In the Serb-majority Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a new educational curriculum will teach elementary students about the roles of Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, referring to them as leaders in a “defensive war of liberation.” The curriculum omits...

Activists behind Kenya's anti-government protests are rethinking their strategy after demonstrations on July 2 were marred by violence and looting that they fear could undermine the movement and its efforts to push President William Ruto to resign. The activists say the violence was the work of...

Anti-racism groups joined French unions and a new left-wing coalition in protests across France against the surging nationalist far right as frenzied campaigning is under way in advance of snap parliamentary elections. About 21,000 police and gendarmes were deployed at rallies on June 15 with...

Hong Kong found 14 pro-democracy activists guilty of subversion in the largest use yet of a China-imposed National Security Law (NSL). They included former lawmakers Leung Kwok-hung and Helena Wong, journalist-turned-campaigner Gwyneth Ho, and ordinary Hong Kongers who joined the mass protests of...

For years, the African National Congress rose above politics in South Africa. It was a movement dedicated to freeing Black people from the oppression of white minority rule and to the lofty principle of democracy, equality and a better life for all South Africans. That has been difficult for the ANC...