During his recent visit to Helmand province and a refugee camp, Dr Tajuddin Avila, UNICEF’s representative in Afghanistan, emphasized the importance of every child’s right to...
At least 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024, including heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods, and droughts,...
More than 500,000 children in Afghanistan are at risk of malnutrition in 2025, the United Nations warned on Wednesday. In a statement, the UN said one...
More than 473 million children - more than one in six globally - live in conflict-affected areas, according to the report.
At least 20 children have been killed in Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday. “UNICEF is...
Australians reacted on Friday with a mixture of anger and relief to a social media ban on children under 16 that the government says is world-leading,...
Public Health Ministry officials have confirmed that a polio vaccine campaign across 16 provinces was launched on Monday. Sharaft Zaman Amarkhil, the spokesperson of the Ministry...
The children's ward of the hospital treats on average 800 patients daily.
Acting Minister of Public Health, Noor Jalal Jalali, says the issue of health should not be politicized given that Afghanistan has a vulnerable health-care sector and...
At the end of the first day, the territory's health ministry said at least 72,611 children had taken the vaccine.
Over 78,000 children in Afghanistan will benefit from additional funding for nutrition and Education in Emergencies from the European Union’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations...
Of these 264 were children, making up 82.5 percent of all casualties, according to the ICRC.
Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only countries that have yet to eradicate polio.
The report by Royal Commission of Inquiry spoke to over 2,300 survivors of abuse in New Zealand, which has a population of 5.3 million. The inquiry...
Nearly 15 percent experience depression, UNICEF said.
According to Amarkhel, this polio vaccination campaign will run from July 8 to 11, and millions of children will be protected against the polio virus through...
The U.S. Department of Justice plans to focus an upcoming lawsuit against TikTok on allegations that the popular social media platform violated the privacy rights of...
Factors such as economic poverty, conflicts, crises and the COVID pandemic have forced millions of children to do hard labor around the world.
The Ministry of Public Health, in cooperation with the relevant international organizations, on Monday launched the second nationwide campaign of polio vaccination for the year 2024....
Qatar Red Crescent Society on Saturday signed an agreement with the Afghan Red Crescent Society for the treatment of 169 children suffering from congenital heart defects....