Michael Laxer
Israel's Ferocious Bombing of Northern Gaza Halts Polio Vaccination Effort
"It is imperative to stop the polio outbreak as soon as possible," the World Health Organization warned, "before more children are...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 54 min read
Israel's War on Palestinian Children Must End
The betrayal of these children by the international community shall stain the collective consciousness of humankind for decades to come....
Michael Laxer
Aug 264 min read
Relentless Israeli Assault Keeping Medical Teams From Delivering Polio Vaccines, Aid
"Children in Gaza are already suffering from starvation and rampant infectious disease as a result of Israel's blockade and attacks on...
Michael Laxer
Jun 133 min read
Amid Cease-Fire Talk, Israel's Siege Still Causing Child Starvation in Gaza
"Blocking humanitarian aid and creating the conditions for famine is not only an act of extreme cruelty—using starvation as an act of...
Michael Laxer
Jun 62 min read
UNICEF finds 1 in 4 children under 5 globally, 9 out of 10 in Gaza, experience severe child food poverty
Image via the Palestinian People's Party UNICEF released a report June 5 that found that 181 million children worldwide under 5 years of...
Michael Laxer
May 51 min read
Laos becomes first country in Southeast Asia to ban corporal punishment of children
Thongloun Sisoulith, General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and President of Laos Various Sources The Lao People's...
Michael Laxer
Mar 285 min read
Sri Lanka: Govt-IMF Reach Agreement but Basic Question Remains
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has worsened due to IMF deals, causing social unrest, unemployment, poverty, and food insecurity, and posing...
Michael Laxer
Mar 163 min read
One-Third of Children Under 2 in Northern Gaza Now Acutely Malnourished
"Malnutrition among children is spreading fast and reaching devastating and unprecedented levels in the Gaza Strip due to the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 32 min read
"The child deaths we feared are here, as malnutrition ravages the Gaza Strip": UNICEF
Image via X The Gaza Health Ministry has reported a heartbreaking tragedy: at least 15 children have lost their lives in the past few...
Michael Laxer
Feb 252 min read
Two-month-old baby dies due to malnutrition in Gaza City
Image via the Palestinian People's Party In yet another horrific example of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a two-month-old child, named...
Michael Laxer
Feb 23 min read
Israel's Assault Has Traumatized Virtually All of Gaza's 1 Million+ Children: UNICEF
By Julia Conley, Common Dreams Out of the 1.7 million people who have been forced from their homes in Gaza by Israel's bombardment over...
Michael Laxer
Jan 204 min read
Thousands of Babies Being Born Into 'Hell' in Gaza, Says UNICEF
"Humanity cannot allow this warped version of normal to persist any longer," said a UNICEF official. "Mothers and newborns need a...
Michael Laxer
Dec 6, 20232 min read
Child poverty amidst wealth: Over 1 in 5 children live in poverty in world's richest countries
In an astonishing indictment of austerity politics in countries like the United Kingdom and of the nature of US capitalism, according to...
Michael Laxer
Dec 4, 20232 min read
15,899 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, at least 6,600 of them children
Image of the aftermath of Gaza bombardments via UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder on X Al Jazeera reports that in his...
Michael Laxer
Dec 1, 20234 min read
'Nightmarish Situation' as Israel Resumes Assault on Gaza
"Anything other than sustained peace and at-scale emergency aid will mean catastrophe for the children of Gaza," said a UNICEF...
Michael Laxer
Nov 20, 20231 min read
On World Children's Day remember the over 5,500 children killed in Gaza since October 7
Image of a memorial to some of the children killed in Gaza at a protest in Toronto, November 4. Since then at least another 2,000...
Michael Laxer
Nov 12, 20233 min read
"The world cannot stand silent while hospitals...are transformed into scenes of death, devastation"
As calls mount around the world for an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israel's indiscriminate attacks, Al-Jazeera reports on Sunday...
Michael Laxer
Oct 30, 20233 min read
Israel Has Killed More Kids in 3 Weeks Than Were Killed in All Global Conflicts Annually Since 2019
"One child's death is one too many, but these are grave violations of epic proportions," said the humanitarian group Save the Children....
Michael Laxer
Oct 25, 20232 min read
UN reports over 2,300 children killed in Gaza since October 7
“It is shameful that some continue to justify what is happening, citing the right to self-defence and resisting terrorism". In a...
Michael Laxer
Oct 6, 20234 min read
43 Million Children Forced From Homes Over Six Years Due to Climate Disasters
Children in countries such as South Sudan and Somalia were displaced by flooding, while young people in wealthy countries including the...
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