[BAGHDAD, 18 April 2006] - Orphans in Iraq, who often lack protection, food supplies and medical assistance, require urgent assistance, according to officials at the Orphans Houses Department at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs."...
[BAGHDAD, 18 April 2006] - The Iraqi juvenile justice system has suffered from neglect and disruption caused by 25 years of crises, according to officials at the UN's Children's Agency, UNICEF. In an effort to improve the situation, UNICEF has...
A European aid agency has reported a rise in child mortality in the southern Iraqi city of Basra where hospital care is said to be in crisis. Water-borne diseases and scarce medical supplies mean infants born in Basra are subject to abnormally high...
Joint Workshop Held to Promote Non-Formal Education Strategies[BAGHDAD / AMMAN, 5 April 2006] - The needs of 600,000 Iraqi children who, for a variety of reasons, have missed out on their formal education, have just been addressed in a three-...
[BAGHDAD, 5 March 2006] - The Ministry of Interior has announced it will increase security measures to protect children from ongoing violence after a recent report cited shocking figures for children killed and injured in the past four months...
Summary: Thousands of detainees being held by the US-led Multinational Force (MNF) in Iraq are trapped in a system of arbitrary detention that denies them their basic rights, Amnesty International said in a report published today. At the same time,...
Des milliers de personnes détenues par la Force multinationale (FMN) en Irak, dirigée par les États-Unis, sont prises au piège dans un système de détention arbitraire qui bafoue leurs droits élé...
Summary: Terrorism and bombing campaigns, lawlessness, kidnapping and targeted killings continue to wreak havoc on civilians in Iraq, with the rights of women, children, detainees and religious leaders grievously violated, according to a new United...
Summary: The country's main children's hospital is operating at less than one third of its full capacity after a bomb attack just over a month ago, say doctors. [BAGHDAD, 24 January 2006] - The country's main children's hospital is...
Child Helpline International is charged with establishing and strengthening a world wide network of child helplines with the objective of having a child helpline in almost every country and representing the child helpline movement at the...
