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At least 5 million children at the brink in Darfur as unchecked conflict worsens
NEW YORK (November 20, 2023) – The escalating humanitarian crisis in Sudan over the last seven months has reached a grim milestone in Darfur, where at least 5 million children are facing extreme...
Children live in a world that is increasingly hostile to their rights
NEW YORK (November 20, 2023) – “Each year on November 20, we mark World Children’s Day to commemorate the 1989 adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) – the most...
31 premature babies at imminent risk of death relocated from Al-Shifa hospital
NEW YORK (November 19, 2023) – Today, 31 babies clinging to life were rescued from Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza and relocated to the south of the Strip. UNICEF, working with WHO, UNRWA, OCHA...
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on her visit to Gaza
NEW YORK (November 15, 2023) – “Today I visited the Gaza Strip to meet with children, their families and UNICEF staff. What I saw and heard was devastating. They have endured repeated bombardment...
UNICEF condemns latest attack in eastern DR Congo as act of ‘horrific brutality’
NEW YORK (November 14, 2023) UNICEF condemns an attack reported to have been carried out on Sunday in the northeast of Beni near the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with Uganda...
1 in 3 children exposed to severe water scarcity – UNICEF
NEW YORK (November 13, 2023) – 1 in 3 children – or 739 million worldwide – already live in areas exposed to high or very high water scarcity, with climate change threatening to make this worse...
Lives of one million children ‘hanging by a thread,’ as child health services almost collapse across the Gaza Strip
NEW YORK (November 10, 2023) – The near total breakdown and attacks on medical and healthcare services across Gaza, in particular the northern areas, threatens the lives of every child in the Strip...
Children account for half of dead and injured in Nepal earthquake - UNICEF
NEW YORK (November 7, 2023) – Almost half of those reported killed and injured in Nepal’s recent earthquake are children. The 6.4 earthquake that struck remote parts of western Nepal on November 3 rd...
Statement by UNICEF on over 200 days of war leaving a generation of children in Sudan on the brink
NEW YORK (November 6, 2023) – “As we mark 200 days since the ongoing brutal war in Sudan broke out on 15 April, UNICEF calls for the redoubled commitment by the international community and all parties...
Children and families at risk after 6.4-magnitude earthquake hits western Nepal
NEW YORK (November 4, 2023) – “We are deeply saddened by the devastating impact of the 6.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Karnali and Lumbini provinces in western Nepal at 11:47 p.m. on Friday...