by Zach Dawes Jr | Sep 21, 2017 | News
More than half (3.5 million) of all school-aged refugees (6.4 million) did not attend school in 2016, according to a U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) report released on Sept. 12. The percentage of refugee children with access to primary schooling increased 11...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 18, 2017 | News
The number of people experiencing hunger rose for the first time in a decade, according to the United Nations annual report, “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World.” Last year, 815 million people experienced hunger globally – an...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | May 15, 2017 | News
More than 2 million children in South Sudan have fled their homes. The number of child refugees is now more than a million and another million-plus are internally displaced as a result of the nation’s ongoing civil war. Additionally, “nearly three quarters...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 30, 2017 | News
Lists of 20th-century genocides differ widely. Yet, six instances always appear: Armenia (1915), the Holocaust in Germany (1933), Cambodia (1975), Rwanda (1990), Bosnia (1995) and Darfur (2003). Other manifestations of genocide are found in some catalogs but not...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 28, 2017 | News
Baptist and Catholic leaders have addressed the United Nations’ Feb. 20 formal declaration of famine in South Sudan. The South Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat issued a pastoral letter on Feb. 23 emphasizing that the ongoing civil war, which has...
