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UNICEF Launches $9.4 Billion Emergency Funding Appeal For Children Affected By Conflict, The Climate Crisis And COVID-19
12/07/2021
NEW YORK (December 7, 2021) – UNICEF launched today a record $9.4 billion emergency funding appeal to reach more than 327 million people – including 177 million children – affected by humanitarian...
UNICEF And WHO, In Partnership With Gavi, Ask Ted Chaiban To Serve As Global Lead Coordinator For COVID Vaccine Country Readiness And Delivery
12/06/2021
NEW YORK (December 6, 2021) – “I am pleased to announce that UNICEF and WHO, in partnership with Gavi, have asked Ted Chaiban, currently UNICEF Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa, to...
Learning Losses from COVID-19 Could Cost this Generation of Students Close to $17 Trillion in Lifetime Earnings
12/06/2021
NEW YORK (December 6, 2021) - This generation of students now risks losing $17 trillion in lifetime earnings in present value, or about 14 percent of today’s global GDP, as a result of COVID-19...
The World’s Nearly 240 Million Children Living with Disabilities are Being Denied Basic Rights – UNICEF
12/02/2021
NEW YORK (December 2, 2021) – All around the world, the nearly 240 million children living with disabilities -- 1 in 10 children worldwide -- are being denied basic rights, UNICEF said ahead of...
A Child Was Infected With HIV Every Two Minutes In 2020 – UNICEF
11/29/2021
NEW YORK (November 29, 2021) – At least 310,000 children were newly infected with HIV in 2020, or one child every two minutes, UNICEF said in a report released today. Another 120,000 children died...
Lebanon: UNICEF Survey Highlights Children’s Ever-Worsening Situation with Dramatic Deterioration of Living Conditions Over Six Months
11/23/2021
NEW YORK / BEIRUT ( November 23, 2021) - With no sign of a let-up in Lebanon’s crisis, the impact on children is progressively worsening, with a new poll showing an increase in the number of children...
Geneva Palais Briefing Note on Grave Violations Against Children in West and Central Africa
11/23/2021
NEW YORK /GENEVA (November 23, 2021) - "West and Central Africa has recorded the highest number of children recruited and used by armed forces and armed groups. This amounts to more than 42,000...
UNICEF Deeply Concerned About Instrumentalization And Pushbacks Of Children On Europe’s Borders
11/15/2021
NEW YORK (November 15, 2021) – “I am deeply concerned about the dire situation facing migrant and asylum-seeking children in Europe and at its borders. “Reports of children living in appalling...
Girls Increasingly At Risk Of Child Marriage In Afghanistan
11/12/2021
NEW YORK (November 12, 2021) – “I am deeply concerned by reports that child marriage in Afghanistan is on the rise. “We have received credible reports of families offering daughters as young as 20...
Global Progress Against Measles Threatened Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
11/11/2021
NEW YORK (November 11, 2021) – While reported measles cases have fallen compared to previous years, progress toward measles elimination continues to decline and the risk of outbreaks is mounting...