Children in Conflict
Social collapse is pushing more and more young girls into marriage in Yemen. UNICEF-supported programs help them get their lives back.
Thanks to a UNICEF project in Aden that provides prosthetic limbs to children maimed in Yemen's war, Rayan, 6, can live a fuller life.
An urgent funding crisis threatens the water, sanitation and health programs children in Yemen need to stay alive. You can help now.
Tens of thousands of children are being recruited and used in armed conflicts around the world. UNICEF is working to bring them home.
An embattled nation's already fragile health care system faces a new threat: the novel coronavirus.
Despite the crippling effects of five years of conflict, community health facilities keep at it, with UNICEF support.
After 40 years of conflict, Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous countries on the planet for a child.
After nearly five years of conflict, Yemen's children need health care, nutrition, safe water, education and more. UNICEF is there to help.
With violent attacks on the rise, children in Mali are in more danger every day. UNICEF and partners are rushing to help.
In Yemen, an Emergency Cash Transfer Project is helping 1.5 million families cover basic food, health and education needs.
A military assault on pro-democracy protesters poses another lethal threat to children suffering from decades of conflict and deprivation.
Little Saba's health stabilized after treatment at a UNICEF-sponsored therapeutic feeding center in Hudaydah, Yemen.
Millions in Yemen spent yet another Ramadan praying for peace and struggling for survival. UNICEF is on the ground helping.
More than 24 million people in Yemen — including at least 11 million children — need humanitarian assistance. UNICEF is there to help.
Thousands of children have been abducted by armed groups in Nigeria. UNICEF helps freed children get their lives back.
After four years of war, blasts like the one that killed 14 Yemeni schoolchildren are hardly the only lethal threats facing families.
While the U.S. reels from a resurgence of measles, communities in Yemen are mobilizing to immunize and protect their children from disease.
Twice victims, girls who break free from an armed group's oppression can find themselves pariahs with no support upon their release.
After the militia that forced Mohamed Sidibay to kill or be killed let him go at age 10, he had no home, family or food. He did have UNICEF.
Desperate to feed their families, more parents in Yemen are marrying off their young daughters in exchange for a cash dowry.
Young Yemenis picked up video cameras to record children's stories of growing up in a country torn apart by war.
UNICEF is calling on world leaders to protect the lives and futures of children growing up in countries affected by armed conflict.
Children did not start the war in Yemen, but they are paying the highest price. UNICEF is helping injured children get their lives back.
Yemen's brutal civil war has destroyed the country's economy and created a devastating humanitarian crisis.
UNICEF and partners are working to provide children growing up in war-torn Yemen with a quality education and hope for the future.
More than anything, Yemen's children wish the fighting would stop, so they could just be children again.
Aleksey, 14, was maimed by a grenade in Ukraine. Sixth graders in Lyons, NY held a walkathon to raise money to send him to summer camp.
Every 10 minutes, a child in Yemen dies of preventable causes, including malnutrition. UNICEF and partners need your help to save lives now.
Some of the world's most vulnerable children are watching their homeland crumble.
UNICEF Executive Director Fore urges swift action to save and protect Yemen's children.
Three years of intense civil war have pushed underdeveloped, overlooked Yemen to the brink of collapse. Peace is the only way forward.
As Yemen's health system crumbles, mobile vaccination teams are going the extra mile to reach children with lifesaving health services.
With food, medicine and safe water already in short supply, a devastated nation prepares for a crippling blockade.
In conflict zones around the world, no method of warfare has been off limits, no matter how deadly for children. Enough is enough.
As the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo deepens, UNICEF is helping children and teens rebuild their lives.
UNICEF and partners are supporting the newly released children with medical care, counseling, education and job training.
Armed conflict has driven more than 800,000 young people from their homes in one of the world's worst displacement crises for children.
For the more than 3 million children born in Yemen since the civil war escalated in 2015, staying alive is a daily struggle.
After nearly four years of volatile conflict, the scars of war run deep on eastern Ukraine's youngest citizens.
In a nation gripped by famine and cholera, more than 11 million Yemeni children are in acute need of humanitarian assistance.
Relief efforts face hurdles in a country already reeling from famine and the world's biggest cholera epidemic on record.
As a child in Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah lost everything. UNICEF helped give him back a future.
Girls and boys in northeast Nigeria are being strapped to explosives and sent to carry out deadly attacks on civilians.
UNICEF issues an urgent appeal: stop this war, scale-up humanitarian aid.
Through UNICEF-supported programs, children like Fanta can try to reclaim lost childhoods.
With UNICEF assistance, 23 primary schools have re-opened in the past few weeks alone.
Six months ago, 85,000 people fled the city as battles raged. Today, kids are studying again in Fallujah's schools.
More than 100,000 children living under threat of Boko Haram are back in school with UNICEF's help.
Providing a safe place for kids to learn and play is one way UNICEF works to help children at risk.
UPDATE: 40,000 people have been displaced within and from the area. Half of them are children.
As a child in Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah lost everything. UNICEF helped give him back a future.
A convoy carrying UNICEF aid reaches the city in the largest distribution to date.
Four young children were killed by a mortar on their way to school. And this comes two days after another hit a school, killing five kids.
UNICEF Syria's Mirna Yacoub rode with the inter-agency convoy delivering desperately-needed humanitarian aid.
Medical staff in Aleppo are trying to save the lives of children in unimaginable circumstances.
Thousands of Nigerian children face severe malnutrition. Help UNICEF provide the nutrition they need.
UNICEF deplores the senseless bombings. Nothing justifies attacks on children.
In the space of hours, three hospitals are attacked, killing children and medical personnel.
The UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador urges help for children whose educations have been interrupted.
UNICEF's representative in Yemen, Julien Harneis, tells what it's like to help children in the war-torn country.
Julien Harneis, UNICEF Yemen, warns that continuous bombardment and fighting are exposing children to violence, disease and deprivation.
Learn how UNICEF is working to protect children in Yemen that are under fire. Donate today to support children affected by the ongoing conflict in Yemen.
2015 has not been kind to the children of eastern Ukraine. The region’s children face a growing humanitarian crisis.
Water is a precious resource in Gaza. UNICEF's Chief of Field Office Pernille Ironside explains.
Conflict delayed the start of the school year, but Palestinian children are now back to learning.
The conflict that began on July 8 has had a huge impact on children.
More than 237,000 people have taken shelter in U.N.-run schools.
Hundreds of children have been killed, and thousands more have been injured.
More than 100 schools are damaged in the recent escalation of violence.
Children are bearing the brunt of the worsening violence in Gaza and Israel.
UNICEF Country Representative Akhil Iyer provides an inside look into UNICEF's work in Afghanistan.
An inside look into UNICEF's work in Afghanistan—one of the world's most dangerous places.
6,000 more are still trapped in the conflict.
