Children Archives

World

‘I want my legs back’: the child amputees of Gaza’s war

Layan al-Baz cries in agony after her legs were amputated -- the result of a strike on Gaza as Israel fights Hamas.

AFPNovember 4, 2023

Spain's national ombudsman Angel Gabilondo said the Catholic Church's response to cases of child abuse involving the clergy was 'insufficient'

World

Spanish clergy sexually abused over 200,000 children, probe estimates

Over 200,000 minors are estimated to have been sexually abused in Spain by the Roman Catholic clergy since 1940, according to an independent commission...

AFPOctober 27, 2023

The baby is the sole survivor of her immediate family, the rest of whom were all killed when a 7.8-magnitude quake struck Syria, flattening the family home

Tech & Science

World’s first digital atlas of human fetal brain development published

The scientists gained an understanding of significant asymmetries in brain maturation: for example, in the region associated with language development.

Dr. Tim SandleOctober 26, 2023

Social Media

Dozens of US states sue Meta over harm to children

Dozens of US states accused Facebook and Instagram owner Meta of profiting "from children's pain," damaging their mental health.

AFPOctober 24, 2023

Children play among tents pitched on UN premises in Khan Yunis where their parents hope there may be some refuge from Israel's retaliatory bombardment of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip

World

Medics recount shocking toll of child deaths in Gaza war

Eight sleeping children killed in one strike, doctors fighting but failing to save an unborn child — such were the stories recounted by Gaza...

AFPOctober 19, 2023

Headteacher Anush Hakobyan lost her son in the Nagorno-Karabakh war of 2020

World

Teaching peace, preparing for war: Armenian schools’ dilemma

Each day at her school, headteacher Anush Hakobyan passes by the photo of her son killed three years ago in a war with Azerbaijan...

AFPOctober 10, 2023

Virtually all of Nagorno-Karabakh's ethnic Armenian population has fled since Azerbaijan's offensive

World

After war, Karabakh children face new lives in exile

Azerbaijan’s offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh last month has upended the life of Larisa who like thousands of other children is facing up to exile and...

AFPOctober 6, 2023

Children stand among the rooftops of homes destroyed by floodwaters in Yusuf Batir refugee camp in Maban, South Sudan, on November 25, 2019 -- UNICEF says tens of millions of children were displaced by climate disasters from 2016 to 2021

World

Tens of millions of children uprooted by climate disasters: UNICEF

Weather disasters fueled by climate change — from floods to droughts, storms to wildfires — sparked 43.1 million child displacements from 2016 to 2021,...

AFPOctober 5, 2023