More than 19.5 million people in Yemen will need assistance in 2025, a senior UN official said Wednesday, expressing concern over a worsening humanitarian crisis and for children suffering from malnutrition...
Gaza health officials said a wave of Israeli strikes hit the territory鈥檚 southern district of Khan Yunis on Tuesday evening, killing a dozen people, including seven children...
LIFE was not like this in the past. In our childhood, we saw many things that are not known to the children of the day. Or, I should say that we did not witness in our childhood what today鈥檚 children have been experiencing. It is not the common worries of life that I am trying to say here such as parenting and the schooling of children, mobile menace or...
Israeli strikes killed at least 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, officials said on Wednesday, as the nearly 15-month war ground on into the new year with no end in sight...
About half of school-age children in Syria are missing out on education after nearly 14 years of civil war, Save the Children said on Monday, calling for 鈥榠mmediate action鈥�.
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said on Wednesday that an overnight Israeli air strike in the northern part of the Palestinian territory killed at least 22 people, including women and children...
The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule asking Dhaka University authorities to explain within two weeks why the quotas for the children of university teachers and employees and the sports quota in admission should not be declared illegal...
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Tuesday that Israeli strikes in the north of the Palestinian territory had killed 25 people, including women and children...
AN INCREASE in the number of patients, especially children and the elderly, with complaints of cold-related diseases and death from such diseases warrants special measures. Besides, patients with diseases that are usually aggravated by cold weather, including respiratory problems, diarrhoea, jaundice, skin diseases, fever and others, have crowded...
Ever since the July-August student-led mass uprising, 55 per cent primary schoolchildren have been living in a state of fear struggling with serious mental health consequences, according to a study revealed on Monday in the capital...
Cold related illness like fever, sneezing, cough, neck pain and asthma has been increasing among the children as the winter begins...
Government officials, educators and rights activists at a workshop on Saturday demanded ensuring inclusive and quality education for all children, including those with disabilities.
The police on Tuesday recovered the bodies of four members of a family, including parents and their two children, from a house in Ranibazar under Bhairab police station in Kishoreganj...
Speakers, including an academic, at a roundtable discussion on Sunday emphasised that coordinated efforts were essential to eliminate child marriage and violence against children nationwide...
Children made up nearly 40 per cent of the more than 3.4 million people in Myanmar displaced by civil war and climate change-driven extreme weather, the UN agency for children said Thursday...
A teenager who narrowly escaped after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan three years ago, on Tuesday won the prestigious KidsRights Prize for her fight for women鈥檚 rights...
The UN said Tuesday that over 200 children have been killed in Lebanon in the less than two months since Israel escalated its attacks targeting Hezbollah.
The Rajshahi University authorities on Thursday decided to cancel the quota facility for freedom fighters鈥� grandchildren, but to retain the five per cent quota for their children for admission to undergraduate courses under the 2024-25 academic session...
The UN on Friday condemned the staggering number of civilians killed in Israel鈥檚 war in Gaza, with women and children comprising nearly 70 per cent of the thousands of fatalities it had managed to verify.
Services for the special needs children with neurodevelopmental conditions at the government Shishu Bikash Kendras across the country are facing serious disruption as its fourth phase ended in...
I HAVE witnessed first-hand the devastating impact of environmental hazards on health and society. Yet, a few hazards pose as insidious a threat as lead poisoning, an issue that has lingered in the shadows of public health discourse for far too long despite its devastating consequences. Bangladesh ranks in the fourth position globally in terms of lead...
The one million children in Gaza are living a 鈥榟ell on Earth鈥�, the UN said on Friday, with around 40 children having been killed there every day over the past year.
Two men were arrested early Friday in a case filed over raping a 15-year-old girl from the Marma community of Baishari union under Naikhyangchari upazila in...
A record 9.3 million people, including three million children, are facing hunger and hardship in the UK, a study said Wednesday, with the new Labour government under...
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has said that the interim government, formed through a mass uprising of students-labourers-people, is firmly committed to identifying and solving the issues like negligence to children, child labour, malnutrition and child marriage that hinder the proper development of children...
A total of 105 children, under 18 years of age, were killed in Bangladesh during the recent student-led mass uprising in July and August, said social welfare and women and children鈥檚 affairs adviser Sharmin S Murshid.
Toys and other products made from recycled plastic for children contain toxic substances, including heavy metals, revealed a study on Thursday...
Weeping parents laid flowers and toys on the coffins of 20 children killed in a Thai school bus inferno, along with three teachers, as five days of funeral prayers began on Thursday.
A devastating fire on a Thai school bus killed at least 23 people, police said Tuesday after rescuers pulled children鈥檚 bodies from the charred wreckage of the vehicle.
A case was filed recently against former land minister Narayan Chandra Chanda for abducting two women in Khulna...