137 children desperately need medical evacuation from besieged area outside Damascus DUBLIN/DAMASCUS/AMMAN, 10 December 2017 – Continuing violence across East Ghouta, some 10km outside the Syrian capital, Damascus, has reportedly led to the closure of most schools in the area over the past month and stranded scores of children in need of medical evacuation. One hundred and … Continued

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF THE RESIDENT COORDINATOR AND HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR YEMEN STATEMENT BY THE HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR YEMEN, JAMIE McGOLDRICK, REQUESTING A HUMANITARIAN PAUSE Sana’a, 4 December 2017: I am extremely concerned at the continued violence in Sana’a city where armed clashes and airstrikes have continued unabated for the past days. Dozens of deaths … Continued

United Nations Nations Unies Joint statement by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, WFP Executive Director David Beasley, IOM Director General William Lacy Swing, and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock. 2 December 2017 Geneva/Rome/New York … Continued

World Children’s Day activities in over 130 countries to provide platform for children to speak out about their concerns; advocate for children being left behind In Ireland, An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to participate in #KidsTakeOver  *NOTE* Videos and photos of the below events can be downloaded here. UNICEF Ireland has photographs it can make available … Continued

DUBLIN, 9 November 2017 – UNICEF and Twitter held a special consultation on digital literacy and activism with 50 teenagers in Dublin today. The group were invited to Twitter EMEA HQ to work on solutions to the challenges arising from the influence of digital on young people. At the #DigitalYouth17 event, Transition Year students from … Continued

DUBLIN/ GENEVA/ COX’S BAZAR/NEW YORK, 3 November 2017 – Preliminary data from a nutrition assessment conducted last week at Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, shows a 7.5 per cent prevalence of life-threatening severe acute malnutrition – a rate double that seen among Rohingya child refugees in May 2017, UNICEF said today. “The Rohingya … Continued

Cholera and malnutrition among main dangers as refugee camps swell UNICEF urges donors to support humanitarian appeals ahead of international pledging conference DUBLIN/DHAKA, BANGLADESH/GENEVA, 20 October 2017 – Desperate living conditions and waterborne diseases are threatening more than 320,000 Rohingya refugee children who have fled to southern Bangladesh since late August, including some 10,000 who … Continued

COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH / DUBLIN, 10 October 2017 – A massive cholera immunisation campaign started today near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, to protect newly arrived Rohingya and host communities from the life-threatening diarrheal disease. 900,000 doses of the vaccine have been mobilised and are being delivered by more than 200 mobile vaccination teams, making it the … Continued

  Saolta Group, HSE and NUI Galway launch 2017/2018 flu vaccine campaign and partner with UNICEF to help eradicate polio “Get a vaccine, give a vaccine” 1 Flu Vaccine = 10 Polio Vaccines The Saolta University Health Care Group and HSE Community Healthcare Organisation CHO2 (Galway, Mayo and Roscommon,) together with the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences … Continued

DUBLIN, 20 September 2017 – Minister for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton TD today took part in the World’s Largest Lesson along with secondary school students at Santa Sabina Dominican College in Sutton, and UNICEF Ireland, and in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs (also known as Global Goals)). UNICEF and its partners launched … Continued

More than 10 million children live in countries threatened by Hurricane Irma UNICEF concerned hundreds of thousands of children could be directly affected PANAMA CITY/NEW YORK, 7 September 2017 – More than 10.5 million children live in the countries that are likely to be exposed to the damage from Hurricane Irma, UNICEF warned today. Based … Continued

FREETOWN / DAKAR / NEW YORK, 17 August 2017 – UNICEF is on the ground urgently responding to the needs of displaced families affected by the flooding and landslides in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown which have killed several hundred people including at least 109 children, according to government sources. The death-toll is expected to rise, … Continued