FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger and malnutrition ROME/GENEVA/NEW YORK, 22 August 2025 – More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths, according to a new Integrated Food Security Phase … Continued
Statement by UNICEF ad interim Representative to Iran, Monika Oledzka Nielsen, on the Impact of escalating hostilities on children in Iran Tehran, 20 June 2025 – The continued escalation of hostilities in Iran poses a grave threat to the lives and well-being of millions of children. Over the past six days, airstrikes have hit at least 18 … Continued
Multiple disease outbreaks heighten public health emergencies for children across Eastern and Southern Africa 17 out of 21 countries in the region are experiencing one or more disease outbreaks NAIROBI, 19 February 2025 – Public health emergencies, including outbreaks of cholera, mpox and, more recently, viral haemorrhagic fevers, are posing significant threats to the … Continued
Mpox outbreak raises alarm in Eastern and Southern Africa as cases increase among children – UNICEF Concerns over new public health emergency rise as communities grapple with other ongoing crises. 22 August 2024 – Children and vulnerable communities are at the sharp end of an expanding outbreak of mpox in Eastern and Southern Africa. More than … Continued
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the situation in the Gaza Strip 24 July 2024 – “With each passing week, families face new horrors in the Gaza Strip. The devastating attacks on schools and internally displaced sites continue, reportedly killing hundreds more Palestinians, many of them women and children, and leaving already overwhelmed hospitals … Continued
Global childhood immunization levels stalled in 2023 leaving many without life-saving protection New data reveal nearly 3 in 4 infants live in countries where low vaccine coverage driving measles outbreaks 15 July 2024 | Global childhood immunization coverage stalled in 2023, leaving 2.7 million additional children un- and under-vaccinated compared to pre-pandemic levels in 2019, … Continued
There is ‘nowhere safe to go’ for the 600,000 children of Rafah, warns UNICEF With hundreds of thousands of children in Rafah injured, sick, malnourished, traumatized or living with a disability, UNICEF calls for children to not be forcibly relocated, and the vital infrastructure on which children rely to be protected 06 MAY 2024 … Continued
Acute malnutrition has doubled in one month in the north of Gaza strip 1 in 3 children under 2 years of age are today acutely malnourished in the north, according to nutrition screenings conducted by UNICEF and partners NEW YORK/DUBLIN, 15 MARCH 2024 –31 per cent – or 1 in 3 children under 2 years … Continued
Over 230 million girls and women alive today have been subjected to female genital mutilation — UNICEF New global estimates show a 15 per cent increase in the total number of FGM survivors compared to data released in 2016 NEW YORK, 8 March 2024 – Over 230 million girls and women alive today have undergone female … Continued
Statement by Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa AMMAN/DUBLIN, 4 March 2024 – “The child deaths we feared are here, as malnutrition ravages the Gaza Strip. “At least ten children have reportedly died because of dehydration and malnutrition in Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Northern Gaza Strip in recent … Continued
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