In Mozambique, heavy floods are turning unsafe water and malnutrition into a deadly threat for children
Exceptionally heavy rains during the first weeks of January have triggered a rapidly escalating emergency.
During Gaza’s ceasefire, children keep being killed
More than 100 children have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire of early October. That is roughly one girl or boy killed every day. During a ceasefire.
UNICEF calls for protection of children and adolescents amid public unrest in Iran
UNICEF is extremely concerned by continuing reports of children and adolescents being killed and injured amid the ongoing public unrest in Iran.
Children in Sudan have endured “1,000 days of agony”
For the children of Sudan, the world is 1,000 days late.
Unprecedented level of child malnutrition in parts of Sudan
Comprehensive nutrition survey in Um Baru locality found more than 50 per cent of children under five acutely malnourished.
Death of children in Gaza due to severe winter
UNICEF is deeply saddened by the preventable tragic death of Ata Mai, a seven-year-old boy, who drowned on 27 December during severe flooding.
maternal malnutrition in Gaza
This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Communication Manager Tess Ingram – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at a press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
More than 400 million children live in poverty
More than 1 in 5 children in low- and middle-income countries – or 417 million – are severely deprived in at least two vital critical areas.