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1 in 4 Children Globally Live in Severe Child Food Poverty due to Inequity, Conflict, and Climate Crises – UNICEF
NEW YORK (June 6, 2024) – Around 181 million children worldwide under 5 years of age – or 1 in 4 – are experiencing severe child food poverty, making them up to 50 percent more likely to experience...
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom visits the Democratic Republic of the Congo as violence against children reaching ‘staggering scale’
NEW YORK (June 5, 2024) – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for the first time this week, as escalating violence and mass displacement in the...
Flash Floods in Afghanistan Posing Urgent and Persistent Threat to Children - UNICEF
NEW YORK (June 3, 2024) – Tens of thousands of children in Afghanistan remain affected by ongoing flash floods, especially in the northern provinces of Baghlan and Badakhshan and the western province...
Fighting around the Golo Water Reservoir Jeopardizes Main Water Source for over 130,000 Children
NEW YORK (May 31, 2024) – “The deteriorating security situation and the intense conflict in and around El Fasher, Darfur, have led to a significantly growing displacement of the civilian population...
No Time to Lose as Famine Stalks Millions in Sudan Amid Intense Fighting and Access Denials
NEW YORK (May 31, 2024) – "Time is running out for millions of people in Sudan who are at imminent risk of famine, displaced from their lands, living under bombardments, and cut off from humanitarian...
Sudan’s Children Trapped in Critical Malnutrition Crisis, Warn UN Agencies
NEW YORK (May 30, 2024) –Three United Nations agencies today issued a stark warning that all indications point to a significant deterioration of the nutrition situation for children and mothers in war...
UNICEF Regional Director Condemns Growing Violence in the Central Sahel, Grave Violations Against Children up by 70 percent
NEW YORK (May 29, 2024) – “The distressing rise in violent incidents in the central Sahel region of West Africa (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger), including the killing of children, must stop if children...
Lilly, UNICEF Expand Support to Help Millions of Young People at Risk of Noncommunicable Diseases
NEW YORK (May 29, 2024) —During the World Health Assembly today, Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced it will donate $6.5 million to the United States Fund for UNICEF to expand UNICEF’s work to...
Violence Drives Haiti’s Children into Armed Groups; up to Half of all Members are now Children – UNICEF
NEW YORK (May 28, 2024) – As armed violence continues to drive the deteriorating conditions across Haiti, the UN has estimated that 30 to 50 percent of armed group members are children who are subject...
UNICEF Scaling up Papua New Guinea Landslide Response
NEW YORK (May 28, 2024) – UNICEF is intensifying its emergency response in the wake of last Friday’s catastrophic landslide in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG), which killed hundreds of people...