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Syria: Number of children going hungry up by 35% in just four months

Save the Children is deeply concerned about the steep rise in hunger across Syria, with estimates that 6.2 million of the country’s children are going without food – a rise by 35% in just four months….

Singer hit with child labour fine after son joins him on stage during concert

Folk singer Angelo Kelly, 39, was fined 3,000 euros (£2,600) for being in contravention of Germany’s strict child labour laws after four-year-old William joined him for a rendition of What A Wonderful World….

Mars, Nestlé and Hershey to face child slavery lawsuit in US

Eight children who claim they were used as slave labour on cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast have launched legal action against the world’s biggest chocolate companies. They accuse the corporations of aiding and abetting the illegal enslavement of “thousands” of children on cocoa farms in their supply chains….

Rihanna’s beauty brand ‘uses’ mica from Indian mines that hire child labour

An NGO complained to National Commission for Protection of Child Rights against the US pop star’s beauty product ‘Fenty Beauty’…

Traffickers found targeting more children as COVID-19 school closures fuel danger

Human traffickers worldwide are increasingly targeting children and will likely exploit school closures during the coronavirus pandemic to abuse the young, the United Nations said on Tuesday….

North West Syria: Severe floods kill one child and force at least 20,000 from their homes

A six-year-old boy has died and more than 20,000 children have been displaced by heavy flooding in North West Syria, Save the Children said….