CHILDREN

Polio vaccines arrive in Gaza to launch immunization campaign

Published on: August 26, 2024
08:30

Ramallah, Aug 26 (Prensa Latina) The first batch of polio vaccines arrived in the Gaza Strip on Monday, amid preparations for an immunization campaign in the territory devastated after more than ten months of Israeli attacks.

Dominican children to benefit from cochlear implants

Published on: August 24, 2024
17:28

Santo Domingo, Aug 24 (Prensa Latina) Dominican children will benefit from the delivery of 42 cochlear devices to the National Health Service (SNS), in the third day of implants for infants with hypoacusis, official sources informed.

Two children die in landslide in El Salvador

Published on: August 17, 2024
10:33

San Salvador, Aug 17 (Prensa Latina) Two minors died as a result of a landslide that occurred last night after heavy rains, Salvadoran Civil Protection authorities confirmed.

Haiti: Five children a week on average killed in 2024

Published on: August 16, 2024
13:24

Port-au-Prince, Aug 16 (Prensa Latina) An average of five children per week in the first six months of 2024 were killed by armed violence in Haiti.

UNICEF denounces deadly attacks on schools in Sudan

Published on: August 15, 2024
17:47

United Nations, Aug 16 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) denounced Thursday the succession of deadly attacks on schools and children in Sudan, which constitute a serious violation of the rights of minors.

Argentine government against search for disappeared children

Published on: August 14, 2024
13:11

Buenos Aires, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) The president of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto, today considered aberrant the decision of the Argentine Government to withdraw the powers to investigate the appropriation of minors from the Commission for the Right to Identity (Conadi).

Protest in Syria demanding peace for Palestinian children

Published on: August 8, 2024
13:49

Damascus, Aug 8 (Prensa Latina) Hundreds of Syrian children gathered today in front of the United Nations Office in this capital, to denounce the crimes of the Israeli regime against children in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and occupied Syrian Golan.

DPRK and Russian children take part in Friendship Evening

Published on: July 31, 2024
13:01

Pyongyang, Jul 31 (Prensa Latina) Children from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Russian Federation held a Friendship Night event at the Songdowon International Children's Camp, on the west coast of North Korea, on Wednesday.

WHO to send polio vaccines to Gaza to protect children

Published on: July 27, 2024
10:35

Geneva, Jul 27 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) will send more than one million polio vaccines to the Gaza Strip after discovering the highly infectious disease in sewage samples.

Jose Marti’s book adds to Guatemala’s children’s literature tradition

Published on: July 23, 2024
00:30

Guatemala, Jul 23 (Prensa Latina) The presence of the first edition in Guatemala of the book "La Edad de Oro" (The Golden Age), a book that Cuban National Hero Jose Marti wrote for children, adds to the tradition of children's literature in this country, Cuban researcher Mauricio Nuñez acknowledged.

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