TEHRAN, October 13- A kidnapped U.S.-Canadian couple and their three children born in captivity have been freed in Pakistan, nearly five years after the couple was abducted in neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistani and U.S. officials said on Thursday.
TEHRAN, October 9 - The Imam Ali (AS) Islamic Center in Vienna, Austria, has organized courses on teaching Quran and eulogy for children and teenagers.
TEHRAN, October 6 -State authorities are responsible for more than 75 percent of violent physical assaults suffered by adolescent migrants in the Balkans, according to a new Médecins Sans Frontières report.
TEHRAN, October 6 - About 145,000 Rohingya refugee children pouring into Bangladesh to stay safe from a brutal crackdown by the Myanmar government are now at risk of severe malnutrition, a UK charity has warned.
TEHRAN, October 5 - There is one women-only jail in Honduras, house to 700 female prisoners. Children of the women can also live by their mothers in prison.
TEHRAN, August 12, YJC -More than 30 children, many of them newborns, have lost their lives in a government-run hospital in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh during the last two days, police and officials say.
TEHRAN, July 23, YJC -Eight people have been found dead inside a truck in a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio, Texas in what police described as a "human trafficking crime."
TEHRAN, July 11, YJC - The World Health Organization said measles has killed 35 children in Europe in the last year, calling it an "unacceptable tragedy" that deaths are being caused by a vaccine-preventable disease.
TEHRAN, June 19, YJC - A number of artists, guests and participants of Iran’s 30th International Film Festival for Children and Youth have condemned the terror attack carried out by Daesh terrorists against the Iranian Majlis (parliament) building and the mausoleum of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Seyyed Rouhollah Khomeini, which killed over a dozen civilians and wounded many more.
TEHRAN, June 15, YJC -Filmmakers from 40 countries are set to participate in the 30th International Film Festival for Children and Youth, which will open in Iran’s historical city of Esfahan later this month.
TEHRAN, March 13, YJC - The United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) said 2016 inflicted record death and misery on Syrian children, making it the worst year ever for the rising generation.
The United Nations children's agency is warning that almost 1.4 million children are at "imminent risk of death" as famine threatens parts of South Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen.
There has been a “shocking” rise in the number of homeless children living in temporary accommodation across Britain, according to the latest government figures.
Fast food consumption isn't merely connected to increases in pant size—it's tied to significant decreases in test scores among school children, according to a new national study.
TEHRAN, 16 November 2014 (YJC)—UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, 16 November 2014, said road traffic crashes kill 500 children each day as they travel to and from school, playgrounds and the homes of family and friends.
Some childhood vaccines are linked to serious side effects, but they are quite rare and do not include autism, food allergies or cancer, said a review of scientific literature Tuesday.