As many as 875,000 children in Afghanistan are at risk of severe wasting, the United Nations agency for children said on Tuesday. Sam Mort, chief of...
November 20 coincides with International Children’s Day, which came about in 1954 to improve the plight of children around the world. The United Nations Children’s Fund...
The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) says 54 children suffering from heart disease, burns and orthopedic problems have been sent to Germany for treatment after their...
Indonesia has halted sales of medicinal syrup after 99 children died of acute kidney injuries this year. The ban will remain until the health ministry completes...
A four-day polio vaccination campaign started in Afghanistan’s 22 provinces including Kabul on Monday, the Ministry of Public Health said. Around six million children under the...
Thirty-four people were killed in Thailand on Thursday in a gun and knife attack at a daycare centre by a former policeman who killed his wife...
The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has contributed an additional GBP 24 million ($28 million) towards UNICEF’s $2 billion Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC)...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced on Sunday that it has created 140 community-based educational classes for children in Khost and Paktika provinces. UNICEF said...
More than 230 Afghan children are alone in the United States while their parents or caregivers remain in Afghanistan, NBC News reported on Friday, citing official...
The United Nations children’s agency said on Friday 121 of those who were killed in the 6.1-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan this week were children. Mohamed Ayoya,...
A Nimroz man has reportedly killed at least seven members of his family in what is believed to have been a shooting spree on Sunday. Nimroz...
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) public health ministry said 820,000 people, including mothers and children, have sought treatment for malnutrition so far this year. According...
Afghanistan’s largest private philanthropic organization, The Bayat Foundation, on Tuesday officially launched a new early childhood development (ECD) initiative, which was broadcast live on Ariana Television....
A teenage gunman killed at least 19 children and two adults after storming into a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, the latest bout of gun-fueled mass...
Save the Children said Monday, in its latest report on Afghanistan, that 24.4 million people, including 13 million children, need humanitarian assistance and that over five...
Balkh Security Chief Abdul Hai Abed said Monday that Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) security forces have rescued a 13-year-old Nangarhar boy in Mazar-e-Sharif and returned...
U.S. health officials on Friday said they are investigating 109 cases of severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children, including five reported deaths, updating a nationwide...
Dozens of homeless children in Herat, who lost their fathers to the war, welcomed food and clothing given to them by Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA)...
Almost 80% of Afghan girls are missing out on an education, Save the Children said Friday- almost a month after the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA)...
Mohamed Ag Ayoya, UNICEF Representative in Afghanistan, on Wednesday said the organization has confirmation that a total 20 children were killed during airstrikes carried out by...