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Seven-Fold Increase in the Number of Children Walking t...
NEW YORK CITY (March 30, 2023) - The number of children crossing the dangerous Darien jungle between Colombia and Panama by foot has increased seven-fold in the first two months of 2023 compared to...
The fight of our lives for their futures: climate actio...
NEW YORK (March 30, 2023) – “As the IPCC report makes clear, our world is already being ravaged by the consequences of climate change. Just last year, we saw a series of deadly climate-linked...
Conflict in eastern DRC is having a devastating impact ...
NEW YORK (March 29, 2023) – The education of around 750,000 children has been disrupted in two most conflict-affected provinces in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). New figures...
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom Returns to Ukr...
NEW YORK (March 27, 2023) – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom travelled to Ukraine this week to meet children and families affected by the war. During his 3-day visit to Kyiv, Irpin and Demydiv...
8 years of crushing conflict in Yemen leave more than 1...
NEW YORK (March 24, 2023) – Eight brutal years of conflict have devastated the lives of millions of children in Yemen and left 11 million children in need of one or more forms of humanitarian...
More than 10 million people, including children, living...
NEW YORK (March 21, 2023) – Six months after catastrophic floods struck Pakistan, more than 10 million people, including children, living in flood-affected areas remain deprived of safe drinking water...
On World Poetry Day, hundreds of children affected by c...
NEW YORK (March 21, 2023) – In commemoration of World Poetry Day, hundreds of children and young people around the world have published poems to highlight their experiences of conflict and war, and to...
UNICEF calls on de facto authorities to allow girls to ...
NEW YORK (March 21, 2023) – “It’s deeply disappointing to learn that, once again, the de facto authorities in Afghanistan have prevented girls from attending secondary school. This unjustified and...
New study finds that 43,000 “excess deaths” may have oc...
NEW YORK (March 20, 2023) – A new report released today by the Federal Ministry of Health & Human Services, WHO and UNICEF suggests that an estimated 43,000 excess deaths might have occurred in 2022...
In wake of Cyclone Freddy, amid disruption to critical ...
NEW YORK (March 20, 2023) – One week after Cyclone Freddy made landfall for a second time in Mozambique, creating severe disruption to critical services, the threat of cholera is growing rapidly for...