NEW DELHI (AA) – A school in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where a teacher reportedly encouraged students to slap a Muslim classmate, has been ordered shut until an investigation against the authorities is completed. The teacher has been booked and an investigation into the case is underway, Education Officer Shubham Shukla said ...
LONDON (AA) – The UK on Thursday criticized Israel for demolishing a school in the occupied West Bank, calling on Tel Aviv to ensure Palestinian children’s right to education. “All children have a right to education. The UK calls on the government of #Israel to uphold this right for Palestinian children,” the British Co...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Two children were killed and one was wounded this week in mine explosions in Yemen’s port city of Al-Hudaydah. In war-torn Yemen, mines laid by Houthi rebels in residential areas and on roads continue to threaten the lives of children, despite international efforts to clear them. Conflicts between the legitimate government and ...
ANKARA (AA): Indian drug manufacturer Riemann Labs has been asked to halt production after its cough syrup was linked to a string of deaths among children in Cameroon. In a written response to a lawmaker’s question read out in parliament, the Indian Health Ministry said the World Health Organization (WHO) had issued alerts and asked [&he...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A Dubai-based Moroccan entrepreneur last month launched Muslim Blocks, a Lego-style toys modeled after important Islamic holy places. His company also released two sets of blocks of the Kaaba and Masjid Al Nabawi. Moroccan national Abdellah Zejli said he has found that toy stores do not offer options that ar...
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas – A federal judge has temporarily blocked an Arkansas law that would criminalize librarians and booksellers who provide access to material harmful to minors. The law, signed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in March, was to have taken effect Tuesday. The law required libraries to establish procedures for reviewing mat...
TORONTO (AA): Israeli soldiers shot and killed a child late Wednesday during a raid on the city of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank. The child, who suffered a serious head wound from a bullet fired by the occupation forces, was taken to the Qalqilya State Hospital and subsequently passed away, according to a statement […]
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): The conflict in Sudan is having a serious impact on the humanitarian situation in Chad, a UN official said Tuesday. Three months after fighting broke out in Sudan, more than 250,000 refugees and returnees have fled across the border into Chad, nearly 90% of them women and children from West Darfur. The […]
WASHINGTON (AA) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to impose the death penalty for anyone caught trafficking children. Trump said if he is elected back to the White House next year, he will combat human trafficking with a heavy hand. He called it modern day slavery. “When I am back in the White House, […]
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): Adolescent boys are systematically being separated from their mothers in detention camps in northeast Syria, a UN expert has said and warned that the practice is causing irreparable harm and is a blatant violation of international law. Fionnuala Ni Aolain said that during a visit to the Kurdish-controlled camps she n...
