United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund

Speaking about the seven demands of the parents of the school where the massacre took place, Vui said that the state is already undertaking or fulfilling most of those demands, while others will soon be fulfilled or is ready to fulfill them.

The task of the Council for the Prevention of Peer Violence will be, among other things, to ensure the organization of mobile teams for peer violence through protocols between centers for social work and other services, such as educational and health institutions and the police, which will respond urgently when this type of incident occurs.

Greece has joined the "Big Catch-Up" campaign led by the World Health Organization to counter a slump in vaccinations since the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Day 397 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

Greece and UNICEF on Thursday signed a cooperation agreement to help prevent and combat child obesity on Thursday. The agreement was signed by Minister for Health Thanos Plevris, General Secretary for Public Health Irini Agapidaki, and UNICEF's Representative in Greece Luciano Calestini.

On Water Day, children from the Bulgarian town of Omurtag will meet with representatives of the authorities, including the Minister of Regional Development, Ivan Shishkov. The problem in the town has been going on for decades. People there have repeatedly come out in protest demanding a solution to the problem.

The international community has collected slightly more than 6 billion euros for Türkiye and around 1 billion euros for Syria in a major donors' conference organized by the European Union to assist the victims of the Feb. 6 earthquakes and the reconstruction of 11 Turkish provinces.
 

Rock musician Antonije Pusic at a UNICEF conference in Podgorica. Photo: UNICEF Montenegro/Dusko Miljanic

"UNICEF has zero tolerance to any form of sexual misconduct," the UNICEF office in Montenegro said in a statement.

"The lessons are in the Montenegrin language, so it's hard when children sit in class and don't understand anything; luckily, a lot of teachers and pupils speak English, so they manage to communicate," Igor's mother, Ana Miroshnichenko, told BIRN.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, spoke over the phone on Jan. 16 and discussed the grain deal, as well as Türkiye's mediation efforts.