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Number of children displaced across Sudan now highest in the world

The conflict in Sudan has reached a grim new milestone, with Sudan now holding the highest number of internally displaced people on earth.

Afghanistan: Two million people lose food assistance

The United Nations’ World Food Programme has announced it will drop another two million people from food assistance in Afghanistan.

Ukraine: Two out of every five children will miss out on fulltime school as second academic year starts during war

More than 40% of children in Ukraine will not be able to go back to school fulltime when classes open 1 September.

SUDAN: More than 50,000 displaced within Kadugli as town nears siege conditions

Children and families living in near-siege conditions in Kadugli in southern Sudan have run out emergency food supplies as fighting escalates

PAKISTAN : A YEAR ON, ITS CHILDREN ARE STILL TRAUMATISED BY WORST FLOODS EVER

One year after Pakistan’s worst floods, children are terrified of a repeat of the disaster that submerged a third of the country and claimed more than 1,700 lives.

Children being locked up with adult sex offenders could “explode into a child protection crisis of epic proportions”

The fact that children arrive here having made treacherous journeys only to be locked up is already a breach of their rights and against their best interests.

Living on 21p a day: Six years after fleeing violence, Rohingya families survive on rice and oil

Six years after 750,000 Rohingya people fled violence in Myanmar to seek safety in Bangladesh, the health and wellbeing of more than half a million children is at risk.

Ukraine: Child casualties rise in deadly summer with over 540 children killed in 18 months of war

Since May 2023, a total of 148 children have been killed or injured in Ukraine, bringing the number of child casualties since the escalation of war on 24 Feb last year.