Natalia Kanem, executive director of the UN Population Fund, is among experts warning about disrupted health services and a surge in gender-based violence. Sophie Cousins reports. As the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates, fears are increasing about the effect of the pandemic on women's and girls' sexual...
ISLAMABAD - Millions of children in Pakistan returned to learning in schools and universities Tuesday after a six-month-long closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. The largest return to school in the world comes as daily infections and deaths from the outbreak in the country of 220 million have...
Kids with addicted parents face a challenging future. We will experience the effects of a generation left behind at school for years to come. As fall creeps in, this is the time of year when students usually crowd into school hallways and classrooms. It’s a chance for kids to show off their first...
Shemar, a twelve-year-old from East Baltimore, is good at math, and Karen Ngosso, his fourth-grade math teacher, at Abbottston Elementary School, is one reason why. “I would try to pump him up and tell him, ‘You’re a good student,’ ” she said. But she knew that he didn’t get enough sleep, and he was...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is changing family life. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization estimates 1·38 billion children are out of school or child care, without access to group activities, team sports, or playgrounds. Parents and caregivers are attempting to...
In episode four of ‘Coping with COVID-19’, the girls tell us about the kind of world they would like to see. This year, 16 girls from nine different countries used their mobile phones to record their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our new five-episode series, ‘Coping with COVID-19’, shows how...
This year, 16 girls from nine different countries used their mobile phones to record their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our new five-episode series, ‘Coping with COVID-19’, shows how life has changed for these girls, including the challenges they’ve faced with access to education, gender...
This year, 16 girls from nine different countries used their mobile phones to record their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our new five-episode series, ‘Coping with COVID-19’, shows how life has changed for these girls, including the challenges they’ve faced with access to education, gender...
Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action This guidance note is meant to assist humanitarian actors, youth-led organizations, and young people themselves across sectors, working at local, country, regional, and global levels in their response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. It begins...