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Orlando Bloom visits Rohingya refugee camps

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom visited Bangladesh this week to see the impact of severe cuts to official development assistance (ODA) on the half a million children living in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.

UNICEF Ireland Urges Action as Fragile Gaza Truce Falters

As renewed Israeli airstrikes continue to violate the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, UNICEF Ireland is urgently calling for the immediate opening of all border crossings and unrestricted humanitarian access to protect children caught in the escalating crisis.

Two years of hellish war on Gaza’s children

For more than 700 days, children in Gaza have been killed, maimed, and displaced in a devastating war that is an affront to our shared humanity. Israeli strikes on Gaza City and other parts of the Gaza Strip continue. The world cannot, and must not, allow this to go on.