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Millions of Children in Syria at High Risk of Disease amid Water Scarcity and Summer Heat
NEW YORK (July 10, 2015) – Dwindling supplies of safe drinking water during Syria’s scorching summer months are exposing children to the threat of water-borne diseases, UNICEF warns. Since the...
Amid Surging Conflict in Yemen, UNICEF Mobile Teams Respond to Children’s Urgent Health Needs
NEW YORK (July 10, 2015) – With health services across Yemen disintegrating under the impact of a brutal conflict, UNICEF and its partners are stepping up nutrition screening, vaccinations and other...
Children’s Lives at Serious Risk if DPR Korea Drought Continues, UNICEF Warns
NEW YORK (July 8, 2015) – Children are already suffering as a result of drought in some parts of DPR Korea and many more may be at serious risk of malnutrition and disease if it continues, UNICEF...
Children Make Up One Fifth of Cholera Deaths in South Sudan: UNICEF
NEW YORK (July 7, 2015) – More than 700 cholera cases have been reported in Juba and Bor so far, resulting in 32 deaths – one in five of which are children under five, UNICEF said today. Stressing the...
UNICEF Teams and Supplies Arrive in Areas Affected by New Ebola Cases in Liberia
NEW YORK (July 3, 2015) – Responding to Liberia’s first confirmed cases of Ebola in more than three months, UNICEF has begun distributing emergency supplies in the affected communities, including...
UNICEF and Save the Children: Urgent Action Needed to Tackle Child Labor Caused by Syrian Crisis
NEW YORK (July 1, 2015) - The conflict and humanitarian crisis in Syria are pushing an ever increasing number of children into exploitation in the labor market, and much more needs to be done to...
UNICEF: Millions of Children in War-Torn Yemen at Risk of Disease and Malnutrition
NEW YORK (June 30, 2015) – The ongoing conflict in Yemen is having a devastating impact on the country’s health system and exposing millions of children to the threat of preventable diseases, says...
UNICEF, WHO: Lack of Sanitation for 2.4 Billion People Undermining Health Improvements
NEW YORK (June 30, 2015) – Lack of progress on sanitation threatens to undermine the child survival and health benefits from gains in access to safe drinking water, warn WHO and UNICEF in a report...
Children at Risk from Cholera Outbreak in South Sudan
NEW YORK (June 24, 2015) – Eighteen people, including two children under 5 years of age, have died from cholera in the most recent outbreak to hit South Sudan. The first cholera case was reported on...
Millions of World’s Poorest Children Left Behind Despite Global Progress, New UNICEF Report Says
NEW YORK (June 22, 2015) – The global community will fail millions of children if it does not focus on the most disadvantaged in its new 15-year development roadmap, UNICEF warned today. Progress for...