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In Port-au-Prince on Jan. 27, 2025, UNICEF Global Spokesperson James Elder interacts with students during a visit to a school that UNICEF and partners relocated from La Saline in 2023, after students got caught up in a clash between two armed groups.

Dispatch From Haiti: What Children Need Most

Multiple threats to children include recruitment into armed groups. What UNICEF is doing to deliver urgently needed support, protection and hope.
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Sisters Lama, 11, and Sama, 12, hug their mother during a tearful reunion arranged by UNICEF following a year-long separation in the Gaza Strip.

UNICEF Reunites Children Separated From Their Parents in Gaza

The war in Gaza is tearing children away from their parents. UNICEF family tracing services are working to bring loved ones together. [video]
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On Dec. 4, 2024, in Ar-Raqqa city, Syria, a young girl stands outside a UNICEF-supported reception center for families displaced by escalating violence in Aleppo.

UNICEF Seeks Support to Ramp Up Aid to Children in Syria

Guided by a 'Whole of Syria' approach, UNICEF is delivering urgently needed support and protection amid new waves of violence and displacement.
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Samira, a mother of five, was forced to leave her home following bombardment and is now living with her children in the streets of Martyrs Square in Beirut.

Impact of Hostilities on Lebanon's Children: Loss and Uncertainty

The conflict in Lebanon has displaced hundreds of thousands of children and their families. UNICEF is there to help.
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On Sept. 24, 2024, a UNICEF staff member speaks with Mariam, 10, displaced by violence and staying with her family in Amiliye public school, now being used as an IDP shelter, in Beirut, Lebanon.

UNICEF Aids Children Uprooted by Conflict in Lebanon

UNICEF is providing emergency support for children and families caught in escalating violence in Lebanon. [video]
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A girl holds a UNICEF winter clothing kit in southern Lebanon.

Children in Need as Armed Conflict Escalates in Lebanon and Israel

UNICEF is calling for an immediate de-escalation of hostilities as children and families find themselves caught in an increasingly dire situation.
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Samah holds the bullet that was removed from her 8-year-old daughter Fatima's head at UNICEF-supported Aljekaika hospital in northern Sudan..

Hit by a Stray Bullet in Sudan

UNICEF is working with partners to support Sudan's flagging health system, providing lifesaving care to children like 8-year-old Fatima. [video]
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Children learn, play and make friends at a UNICEF safe learning space in Sudan.

UNICEF Safe Learning Spaces a Haven for Children in War-Torn Sudan

UNICEF-supported safe learning spaces offer children displaced by conflict a place to play, learn and just be kids. [video]
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Displaced by violence, a boy stands in a hallway of a school being used as an emergency shelter in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

UNICEF Helps Children Displaced by Violence in Haiti

Violence caused by armed groups has pushed over 300,000 children out of their homes in Haiti. UNICEF is there, providing urgent assistance. [video]
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