Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent Jon Kay Reporting fromNew York City Getty Images Prince Harry and Meghan are in New York calling for more safety online for children The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are calling for stronger protections for children from the dangers of social media, saying “enough is not being done”. Prince Harry and...
The Dominican Republic says it has arrested more than 130 Haitian women and children on the first day of a crackdown of undocumented migrants in Santo Domingo’s hospitals. Many of the women arrested on Monday were pregnant and others had recently given birth. The crackdown is part of the government’s plan announced last year to...
Tony Smith and Angus Crawford BBC News Investigations Getty Images Young Instagram users could still be exposed to “serious risks” even if they use new Teen Accounts brought in to provide more protection and control, research by campaigners suggests. Researchers behind a new report have said they were able to set up accounts using fake...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation Content Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence to children. As the Jewish community prepares to observe Passover this year, I’m thinking a great deal about the centrality of children to the Exodus story we tell around the seder table. In particular, I’m...
If your child is named “Karen” but wants to be called “John,” you could lose custody of your child in Colorado if House Bill 1312 passes the Senate and gets signed by Governor Jared Polis, as seems likely. The bill was passed with no debate on Sunday night, Democrats having called the question on the...
A Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih has killed at least 14 people and left dozens of others wounded, according to regional head Serhii Lysak. Six of the dead were children, said President Volodymyr Zelensky, who grew up in the city. Images from the scene showed at least one victim...
Michelle Roberts Digital health editor, BBC News Getty Images Younger children should not be given any drinks containing artificial sweeteners, UK experts are now advising. The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) recommendations apply to beverages such as sugar-free ‘toothkind’ squash that has ingredients such as aspartame, stevia, saccharin and sucralose. It says preschool children...
Joshua Nevett Political reporter BBC Sam Revell said she was placed in “horrendous” temporary accommodation Councils are exposing homeless children to serious health and safeguarding risks by housing them in unsuitable temporary accommodation, an inquiry by MPs has found. MPs said a “crisis in temporary accommodation” in England had left a record 164,000 children without...
The United Nations agency for children says that at least 322 children are reported to have been killed since Israel launched a renewed offensive in Gaza two weeks ago. Unicef said at least 609 other children were reportedly wounded during the same period. “The ceasefire in Gaza provided a desperately needed lifeline for Gaza’s children...
This story was originally published by Floodlight. President Donald Trump and his administration have called it the “Great American Comeback.” But environmental advocates say the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s reversing course on enforcing air and water pollution laws is more of a throwback — one that will exacerbate health risks for children who live and...
Israel has blocked all aid from entering Gaza for over three weeks, the longest total aid blockade so far. Palestinian children in Gaza are so hungry that they’re drawing pictures of food in the sand, according to a Gaza reporter, as the population is being starved by the most brutal form of Israel’s aid blockade...
Protesters gathered for a unique day of action against British bulldozer manufacturer JCB. It was over the company’s complicity in the projects of ethnic cleansing across Palestine, India, and Kashmir. Parents 4 Palestine and the Stop JCB Demolitions Campaign mobilised for the series of creative protests at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, in London....
“Israeli forces have signed a death warrant for Palestinian children in Gaza,” one rights group worker said. Israel killed at least 174 children in its ceasefire-shattering assault on Gaza on Tuesday, making it one of the deadliest 24 hours for children in Gaza’s history, Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) has said. The death toll is...
After a four-day mission to the West Bank and Gaza, a top official for the United Nations’ children’s welfare agency on Sunday described the effects that Israel’s blockade on all humanitarian aid into the latter territory has had on roughly 1 million children in recent weeks, and demanded that lifesaving essentials — currently “stalled just...