THE GUARDIAN: UN agency will help fund food parcels for those affected by coronavirus crisis in Southwark, south London
Unicef has launched a domestic emergency response in the UK for the first time in its more than 70-year history to help feed children hit by the Covid-19 crisis.
The UN agency, which is responsible for providing humanitarian aid to children worldwide, said the coronavirus pandemic was the most urgent crisis affecting children since the second world war.
A YouGov poll in May commissioned by the charity Food Foundation found2.4 million children (17%) were living in food insecure households. By October, an extra 900,000 children had been registered for free school meals. » |
Rhi Storer | Wednesday, December 16, 2020
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
WELT ONLINE: Nach Schätzungen der Unicef werden 150 Millionen Mädchen und 73 Millionen Jungen weltweit jährlich zum Sex gezwungen. Hunderttausende werden über Grenzen verkauft, um sexuelle Dienste zu leisten. Auch wenn die Hauptschwierigkeiten im Ausland liegen – Probleme gibt es auch in Deutschland.
Weltweit werden nach Schätzungen der Vereinten Nationen jährlich rund 150 Millionen Mädchen und 73 Millionen Jungen unter 18 Jahren zum Sex gezwungen. Wie aus einem Bericht des UN-Kinderhilfswerks Unicef hervorgeht, werden zudem jedes Jahr hunderttausende Kinder über Grenzen hinweg verkauft – viele von ihnen für sexuelle Zwecke. >>> AFP/AP/fsl | Dienstag, 02. Juni 2009
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
THE EARTH TIMES: Nairobi - The United Nations children's agency UNICEF Tuesday condemned the recent stoning to death of a 13-year-old Somali girl for adultery in the port town of Kismayo, which was taken over by Islamist insurgents in August. The girl, Aisha Duhulow, was last week stoned to death for adultery under Islamic law, or sharia. Initial reports said that the girl was in her twenties.
UNICEF said that reports indicated the girl had not committed adultery, but been raped by three men while walking to visit her grandmother in the capital Mogadishu.
The Islamic authorities said that the girl had confessed to her crime and repeatedly asked for the full penalty under sharia.
However, witnesses told the BBC that she begged for her life before being buried up to her neck in the ground and stoned by around 50 men in front of over 1,000 spectators.
"This is a tragic and deplorable incident" said UNICEF Representative for Somalia, Christian Balslev-Olesen. "A child was victimized twice - first by the perpetrators of the rape and then by those responsible for administering justice."
Insurgents have been fighting Somalia's transitional federal government since Ethiopian troops helped oust the Union of Islamic Courts in early 2007.
However, main insurgent group al-Shabaab has rejected the deal and vowed to keep fighting until Ethiopian forces leave Somalia.
The Horn of Africa nation has been plagued by chaos and civil war since the ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. [Source: The Earth Times] DPA | November 4, 2008
BBC: Stoning Victim ‘Begged for Mercy’
A young woman recently stoned to death in Somalia first pleaded for her life, a witness has told the BBC.
"Don't kill me, don't kill me," she said, according to the man who wanted to remain anonymous. A few minutes later, more than 50 men threw stones. >>> | November 4, 2008
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