05/05/2020
4 May 2020 (UN News)* — A new UN report finds that some 19 million children were displaced within their own countries due to conflict and violence in 2019, more than in any other year, making them among the most vulnerable to the global spread of COVID-19.
© UNICEF/Moohialdin Fuad | A young boy plays while his mother lines up at a water point in a camp for displaced people in Aden, southern Yemen.
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28/03/2020
KURDISTAN, Iraq, 26 March 2020 (UNFPA)* – Intisar* was only 15 years old when her parents forced her into a marriage. She described it as an act of commerce: They sold her to another family to pay off a debt. “It is the worst feeling in the world to be traded off like that by the people who are supposed to protect you,” said the now-37-year-old Intisar, during a recent interview.
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A woman in Iraq. © UNFPA Iraq/Seivan Salim
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Her husband was 25 years her senior, and immediately abusive. He never missed an opportunity to remind her that she was “just a bargaining chip,” she said.
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15/03/2020
When 15 boys were detained in Syria for scrawling anti-government graffiti on walls in Deraa, a city in Southwest Syria, news of their arrest sparked protests. The protesters called not only for the release of the boys, but for greater political freedom, and railed against government corruption.
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03/12/2019
By John Scales Avery*
Loving care for our children
We give our children loving care, but it makes no sense to do so unless we do everything in our power to give them a future world in which they can survive. We also have a duty to our grandchildren, and to all future generations.
Prashant Shrestha from Kathmandu, Nepal – Smiling Children | CC BY 2.0
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22/11/2019
21 November 2019 — A group of thirty men in Gaza have succeeded in preventing the early marriage of girls under the age of 18, from 50 different families, thanks to a training programme supported by the UN gender agency, UN Women. (*).
UN Women/Eunjin Jeong | Mossa Abu Taema, one of the 20 first ambassadors of change who persuaded his community members to stop early marriages.
One of them, Mossa Abu Taema, convinced the father of a 16-year-old in one of the most conservative villages in eastern Khan Younis, a border town in the Gaza Strip, to cancel her wedding and allow her to continue her education. An estimated 21 per cent of marriages in Gaza in 2017, involved girls under-18.
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28/10/2019
By Jenny Barchfield in Pamplona, Colombia*
Two years ago, a Colombian housewife decided to turn her home into a makeshift shelter for refugees and migrants on a grueling trek to safety.
Marta Duque (in light blue shirt) with Venezuelan refugees and migrants who recently spent the night at her house. © UNHCR/Hélène Caux
28 October 2019 (UNHCR)* — In the mid-1970s, Marta Duque’s father sent her from her home in the Colombian city of Pamplona, tucked into a far eastern range of the Andes, to the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, to work as a live-in maid. She was 12 years old.
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13/07/2019
So far, 650 million women alive today were married as children
Yet another inhumane practice to be added to the already reported Born Complete, Don’t Mutilate Them! and Robert J. Burrowes’ Humanity’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’ – Starving, enslaving, raping, torturing and killing our children.
Now it is about child-girls forced to be married before the age of 18.
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02/07/2019
DOHUK, Iraq (UNFPA)* – “I was only 12 years old when I got married to my 25-year-old cousin,” Najma*, from a Syria, told UNFPA recently.
A Syrian refugee in northern Iraq. © UNFPA/Seivan Salim
“My mother entered my room at around 5 pm while I was sitting on the floor, colouring in my princess colouring book. She sat on the bed and called me up. ‘Najma, tomorrow you will get married.’”
Najma’s mother explained what marriage meant. “’You have some duties, and the most important one is to please your husband, prepare his meals, clean and iron his clothes and be an obedient woman,’” she recalled her mother saying.
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07/06/2019
6 June 2019 — An estimated 115 million boys and men around the world were married as children, 23 million of them before the age of 15, according to the first-ever analysis on child grooms, launched on Friday by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).*
UNICEF/Kiran Panday | Adolescents in Gujara Municipality of Rautahat District in Nepal perform a skit on child marriage as part of UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme on Ending Child Marriage.
Using data from 82 countries, the in-depth study brings the overall number estimated child marriages to 765 million,
UNICEF revealed. “Marriage steals childhood”, said Executive Director Henrietta Fore.
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05/04/2019
More than 19 million children in Bangladesh are at risk from devastating floods, cyclones and other environmental disasters linked to climate change, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday [5 April 2019] in a new report.
UNICEF/Akash | A child wades through water on her way to school in Kurigram district of northern Bangladesh during floods in August 2016.
According to the study – Gathering Storm: Climate change clouds the future of children in Bangladesh – the country’s flat topography, dense population and weak infrastructure make it “uniquely vulnerable to the powerful and unpredictable forces that climate change is compounding”.
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