About 6.5 million children in Afghanistan were forecast to experience crisis levels of hunger in 2024, nongovernmental organization Save the Children said.
Nearly 3 of 10 Afghan children will face crisis or emergency levels of hunger this year as the country feels the immediate impacts of floods, the long-term effects of drought, and the return of Afghans from neighboring Pakistan and Iran,
Hundreds of thousands of them are at risk. They are sick, living with disabilities, malnourished & traumatized.
The children in Gaza need a ceasefire now to prevent further suffering."
Palestinians travel in a donkey-drawn cart loaded with their belongings as they flee Rafah due to an Israeli military operation, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 28. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
A man carries a child, as Palestinians travel on foot along with their belongings as they flee Rafah due to an Israeli military operation, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 28. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
A Palestinian rides a bicycle with children along with their belongings as they flee Rafah due to an Israeli military operation, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 28. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
You're eventually gonna run out of time. Might be because of your own decisions (lifestyle, bad habits). Might also have nothing to do with you: Wile E. Coyote drops a piano intended for the Roadrunner, that takes you out instead. Start enjoying our life right now. "I'm too busy." is not a life, forwards nothing to your children.
Sima Bahous, the executive director of UN Women, said more than 10,000 Palestinian women have been killed in the seven months of Israel’s war on Gaza – including scores of women and children horrifically killed by an Israeli air strike while sleeping in tents in what was supposed to be a safe zone in Rafah.
“This war must stop because women and girls are bearing the brunt of it,” Bahous told a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday.
Meachie Martin, Age Now: 1, Missing: 05/26/2024. Missing From COLUMBIA, MO. ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT: Boone County Sheriff's Office (Missouri) 1-573-442-6131.
Sketched by #kids? Drawings depicting #gladiators among latest discoveries at Pompeii.
Charcoal graffiti believed to have been sketched by #children uncovered at Pompeii.
Peyton Pickard, Age Now: 16, Missing: 05/27/2024. Missing From Bushnell, FL. ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT: Sumter County Sheriff's Office (Florida) 1-352-793-2621.
ICYMI: The government of Japan wants more people to have kids to stave off the country’s rapidly aging and declining population. Now comes word that the government of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is considering a new financial incentive: eliminate the cost of giving birth.
"It’s #Jewish#American Heritage Month, and what better way to celebrate our heritage than #children’s #books about #food? Because everyone, no matter what, can agree that Jewish food is the best.
These books feature diverse and surprising tales about Jewish food, from Ashkenazi classics to Asian and Mexican mash-ups."
“I saw the dead body of a father who was basically holding his child perhaps around three years of age. They were burned and charred. We couldn’t separate them. So we had to put both of them together in a body bag.”
Javed Ali, the director of emergency response in Gaza for International Medical Corps
Palestinians wounded in Israeli strikes on the Bureij refugee camp are given first aid at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah on May 25, 2024 in the central Gaza Strip [Bashar Taleb/AFP]