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More Than 1.5 Million Children At Risk As Devastating F...
10/21/2022
NEW YORK (October 21, 2022) – More than 2.5 million people in Nigeria are in need of humanitarian assistance – 60 percent of which are children – and are at increased risk of waterborne diseases...
More Than One In Nine Children In Flood-Affected Areas ...
10/21/2022
NEW YORK (October 21, 2022) – In the aftermath of the devastating floods in Pakistan, health facilities are reporting alarming levels of severe acute malnutrition among children in affected areas...
UNICEF Delivers Lifesaving Supplies To Syria To Halt Th...
10/20/2022
NEW YORK (October 20, 2022) – UNICEF delivered lifesaving health and water, hygiene, and sanitation supplies to Syria earlier this week to scale up efforts to halt the cholera outbreak. The supplies...
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra Jonas Meets ...
10/19/2022
NEW YORK/ NAIROBI (October 19, 2022) – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra Jonas travelled to northern Kenya this week to meet children suffering from severe acute malnutrition as a result of...
Geneva Palais Briefing Note: UNICEF Warns Of Unpreceden...
10/18/2022
NEW YORK (October 18, 2022) “Today in Somalia, every single minute of every single day, a child is admitted to a health facility for treatment of severe acute malnutrition. The latest admission rates...
Staggering Backsliding Across Women’s, Children’s And A...
10/18/2022
NEW YORK (October 18, 2022) – A new UN report shows that women’s and children’s health has suffered globally, as the impacts of conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change converge with...
Cholera Threat ‘Close To A Death Sentence' For Children...
10/14/2022
NEW YORK (October 14, 2022) – Nearly 100,000 children under the age of five who are already suffering from severe acute malnutrition -also known as severe wasting - are especially vulnerable to the...
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom Opens Up About...
10/10/2022
NEW YORK (October 10, 2022) – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom has reflected on how a near-fatal accident when he was a teenager impacted his mental health in a moving video issued on World...
UNICEF Calls For The Protection Of Children And Adolesc...
10/10/2022
NEW YORK (October 10, 2022) – “We are extremely concerned by continuing reports of children and adolescents being killed, injured and detained amid the ongoing public unrest in Iran. Our thoughts are...
UNICEF USA Statement on Deferred Action for Childhood A...
10/07/2022
NEW YORK (October 7, 2022) – The livelihoods and well-being of nearly 600,000 immigrants and their families currently protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy continue...