UNICEF Ireland Youth Ambassadors Natasha Maimba (15) and Minahil Sarfraz (15) gave The Ray D’Arcy Show on RTÉ Radio One a brilliant and insightful interview about what it is like to be a child growing up in the Irish Direct Provision system. Direct Provision is the system the Irish State puts asylum seekers into when … Continued

After two years of hunger and conflict, the children of Yemen now face an unprecedented cholera outbreak

Lani (15) wants to tell the world what Iraqi children are going through. She says conflict in her home city of Mosul “destroyed our lives”, but there is hope. UNICEF is working to reopen schools and Lani is back in class for the first time in years. Please support children like Lani in Iraq. Photo: Students … Continued

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and Syrian refugee Muzoon Almellehan has made a heartfelt appeal to fellow refugee children. The education activist is working to inspire young people to stay in school, in spite of the fact that they may be caught up in humanitarian emergencies. Dear fellow refugee, Some people call us the lost generation. We are not lost. We … Continued

  The vast majority of child migrants uprooted by violence, poverty and climate change remain in Africa. Children account for over half of the 12 million West and Central African people on the move each year, with some 75 per cent of them remaining in sub-Saharan Africa, and less than one in five heading to … Continued

In Yemen, UNICEF is airlifting life-saving medical supplies to children in areas hit by the world’s worst cholera crisis.

  The latest UNICEF Report Card Building the Future is the first report to assess the status of children in rich countries in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It ranks countries based on their performance and details the challenges and opportunities that rich countries face in achieving interdependent global commitments for children, shared economic prosperity and … Continued

Executive Director Peter Power has just returned from a fact-finding mission to famine-risk zones in Somalia. I first met eight-month-old Hassan at the beginning of my week-long trip to northern Somalia, on my first visit to a UNICEF Stabilisation Centre in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The clinic has been set up to deal with Severely Acutely Malnourished children with … Continued

Millions of children under the age of five received successfully measles vaccination in Syria this month. UNICEF helped by providing 3 million doses of measles vaccine, and by letting parents know about the campaign through posters and flyers. Before the current crisis, Syria’s immunisation coverage was one of the best in the region at 80 … Continued

  Today in Yemen, 2.2 million children are malnourished, including 462,000 who are severely acutely malnourished. Yemen’s food crisis is being made even more difficult by the outbreak of Cholera in recent weeks. Some 332 people have died from the disease, with 32,000 suspected cases of cholera reported. Up to a third of cases are estimated … Continued

  Tajudeen Oyewale, Deputy Representative at UNICEF DRC, visited an Ebola treatment centre last week to assess the response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Going to the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak is not easy – you need to mentally prepare. In fact, when I informed my colleagues in … Continued

Record numbers of children are migrating alone right now, according to a new report released by UNICEF today. In fact, the number has increased nearly five-fold since 2010, with at least 300,000 unaccompanied and separated children counted in some 80 countries in the combined years of 2015 and 2016. According to our research: 200,000 unaccompanied … Continued