Mia Farrow, actor, activist and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since September 2000, has returned to the Central African Republic from 1-5 July 2014 for her fourth visit to witness and report on the devastating impact of the conflict on women and children.

Children go hungry after WFP suspends critical food aid program due to lack of funds

Despite the ongoing conflict, violence and displacement across Iraq, a mass polio immunization campaign succeeded in reaching 3.75 out of 4 million children under the age of 5.

At 11am on Friday 2 May 2014 a major landslide hit Abi-Barak village in Argo district of Badakhshan province in northeastern Afghanistan. Although the exact number of casualties has yet to be confirmed, the death toll is expected to be high.

Children in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Syria will be the first of nearly 10 million children across the Middle East to receive a dose of polio vaccine this month.

In response to a break in the two-month long siege of Amerli, UNICEF has delivered 45 metric tonnes of life-saving supplies

?The justified outrage at the killing of a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem today, and that seen at the funerals yesterday of three young Israelis murdered in the West Bank, are a reminder that we must never become accustomed to such attacks against children, anywhere, in any way, and at any time.

Attacks against children in the Central African Republic have sunk to a vicious new low, with at least two children beheaded, and one of them mutilated, in the violence that has gripped the capital since early December

Statement from UNICEF strongly condemning the abduction and killing of three Israeli young people in the West Bank.