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Amir, 4, one of tens of thousands of children displaced from southern Lebanon due to escalating conflict with Israel, is sheltering with his family at Lebanese University in Beirut.

UNICEF Appeals for Support, Calls for Action to Protect Children in Lebanon Caught in Conflict

UNICEF has released a new humanitarian action plan for Lebanon aiming to reach 1 million people — including 350,000 children — in urgent need. [video]

On July 15, 2024, UNICEF-trained Rohingya community nutrition volunteer Taslima visits Noor Bibi, 28, to provide nutrition counseling and to assess the nutritional status of her daughter Jishan, 2, at their shelter in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

Inside Look: How UNICEF Supports Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh

A UNICEF USA Q&A with Sayed Ezatullah Majeed, Chief of the UNICEF Field Office in Cox's Bazar.

Two Rohingya refugee children living in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Rohingya Refugee Crisis Reaches Seven-Year Mark

An update on urgent humanitarian needs in Bangladesh and Myanmar, and what UNICEF is doing to support and protect children in both countries.

Young children learn about good nutrition at a UNICEF-supported learning space in Lebanon.

5 Ways UNICEF Helps Children in Lebanon

UNICEF Lebanon is working with partners to ensure every child has a healthy childhood despite concurrent, overlapping crises.

Siblings Eva, 10, and Misha, 6, refugees from Odesa, Ukraine, attend a UNICEF play and learning hub in Balti, Moldova.

Helping Ukrainian Refugee Children Thrive

War in Ukraine forced siblings Eva and Misha to leave everything familiar behind. UNICEF and partners are helping them adjust. [video]

A teacher uses the Learning Platform with her students in Poland.

Empowering Teachers to Promote Mental Health and Well-Being in the Classroom

Two years after the escalation of the war in Ukraine, the Learning Passport is supporting mental health for teachers and students in Poland. [VIDEO]

Margot Friedlander, fifth from right in next to last row, and classmates in Berlin around 1930.

Forced to Flee, Yet Denied Refugee Status

"I don't talk for myself," says Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlander. "I talk for the ones who could not talk."

UNICEF Ambassador Laurie Hernandez meets children in Lajas Blancas, Panama.

UNICEF Ambassador Laurie Hernandez Advocates for the Rights of Children on the Move

Laurie Hernandez is an Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics, "Dancing With the Stars" champion — and fierce advocate for children's rights. [VIDEO]

On May 1, 2023, a nutrition assistant screens a child for malnutrition using a Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) tape at the UNICEF-supported Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP) in Tarawa town, located in Kassala State, Sudan.

Meeting Urgent Needs in Sudan

The ongoing conflict is pushing already vulnerable children and women deeper into hardship. UNICEF is there.