'Unseen' News and Views
19 November 2018 (UNDP)* — The lack of women’s empowerment is a critical form of inequality. And while there are many barriers to empowerment, violence against women and girls (VAW) is both a cause and a consequence of gender inequality.
More than 1.3 million children to receive emergency treatment in 2018, but more investment in prevention measures needed to influence trends in 2019 and beyond
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DAKAR/NEW YORK, 16 November 2018 (UNICEF)* – More than 1.3 million children under five years of age in need of treatment for severe acute malnutrition across six Africa’s Sahel countries are expected to receive care in 2018 – the highest number in at least a decade and a more than 50 per cent increase in the number of severely malnourished children compared to 2017 in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal.
20 November 2018 (UNHCR)* — Fourteen-year-old Katrina Gómez* could have been safe at school the day two men assaulted her on a public beach of this Colombian coastal city, and raped her. But she and her parents did not know she had that right. | Español | Français
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A young Venezuelan boy interacts with a volunteer at the Hearts Without Borders childcare centre in Bogotá. © UNHCR/Stephen Ferry
DAMASCUS/AMMAN, 16 November 2018 (UNICEF)* – “UNICEF is alarmed by recent reports of up to 30 children who have been killed in recent violence in Al Shafa village, in eastern Syria.
“These reported killings demonstrate that the war on children is far from over in Syria.
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“In almost eight years of war, the fundamental principle of protection of children has been completely disregarded, with disastrous consequences for children everywhere in Syria.
Migrant and refugee children to face incredible hardships attending schools and accessing education, a new United Nations report released on 20 November 2018 has revealed, highlighting also structural weaknesses in national systems that can sometimes exclude children on the move.
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