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Haiti Funding Needs Nearly Triple Following Hurricane Matthew - UNICEF
10/26/2016
NEW YORK (October 26, 2016) – Three weeks since Hurricane Matthew made landfall in Haiti, UNICEF said it would need an additional $22.5 million to meet the increasing needs of children in the country...
Displaced Children in Iraq Tell Their Stories
10/25/2016
NEW YORK (October 25, 2016) – There are more than 16,000 children in Debaga Camp, displaced from various areas in northern Iraq. Many of these children have lived under the so-called Islamic State and...
Joint WHO/UNICEF News Release: Major Campaign Launched to Immunize 5.8 Million Iraqi Children Against Polio
10/24/2016
NEW YORK (October 24, 2016) – Today, on World Polio Day, the Ministry of Health with support from UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a weeklong nationwide campaign to immunize...
Children in War-torn Syria Risk their Lives to Go to School
10/21/2016
NEW YORK (October 21, 2016) – With the start of the school year in Syria, over 1.7 million children remain out of school and another 1.3 million are at a risk of dropping out, according to new...
UNICEF Delivers Water at the Front Line of Mosul Operation
10/20/2016
NEW YORK (October 20, 2016) – UNICEF this week managed to reach Al Houd, a town just south of Mosul that was retaken by Iraqi security forces just two days prior, and deliver clean water to some of...
UNICEF Calls on European Council to Address Plight of Refugee and Migrant Children
10/20/2016
NEW YORK (October 20, 2016) – “This week’s meeting of the European Council in Brussels is a perfect opportunity for Europe to begin putting in place specific and measurable actions to address the...
Supply of Children’s Five-in-One Vaccine Secured at Lowest-Ever Price
10/20/2016
NEW YORK (October 20, 2016) – Breakthrough prices have been achieved with six vaccine suppliers who offered to price pentavalent vaccine at an 84 cents a dose average – half the price that the UN...
Record Numbers of Unaccompanied Children Arrive in Italy – UNICEF
10/18/2016
NEW YORK (October 18, 2016) – Three newborn babies – two born on Italian Coastguard boats in the Central Mediterranean and one at port – are among the newest arrivals of refugee and migrant children...
Girls Held by Boko Haram Need Support to Rebuild Shattered Lives
10/18/2016
NEW YORK (October 18, 2016) – The emotional reunification with their families on Sunday of 21 of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram more than two years ago in Chibok, northeast Nigeria, highlights the...
Keep Children Safe in Mosul Operation, UNICEF Says
10/17/2016
NEW YORK (October 17, 2016) – More than half a million children and their families in Mosul will be at extreme risk in the coming weeks, UNICEF warned today as a military operation to retake the...