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This weekend, UNICEF marks the first anniversary of Super Typhoon Haiyan which affected 5.4 million children in the Philippines. The strongest hurricane ever to make landfall in recorded history, Typhoon Haiyan destroyed up to 90% of the hospitals, schools and homes in its path, leaving 1.7 million children homeless and at risk from disease and hunger
UNICEF and partners today launched a new campaign No Lost Generation to bring the world?s attention to the 5.5 million children in Syria who need urgent education and psychological support to break the cycle of violence caused by almost three years of conflict.
?The abduction of eight more girls in Nigeria is an outrage and a worsening nightmare for the girls themselves and for the families of the more than 200 girls who have been stolen from their communities in the last several weeks.
UNICEF statement on anti-homosexuality laws in 78 countries
UN Special Representative for Children and Armed conflict and UNICEF unveil ?Children, not Soldiers? campaign
UNICEF Philippines activates full disaster preparedness mode to assist children and their families
The largest-ever compilation of data on violence against children shows the staggering extent of physical, sexual and emotional abuse — and reveals the attitudes that perpetuate and justify violence, keeping it ?hidden in plain sight? in every country and community in the world.
According to official reports received by UNICEF, these children from the Yazidi minority died as a direct consequence of violence, displacement and dehydration over the past two days.
Food cuts increase health risks and threaten wellbeing through winter months. A UNICEF Ireland team, led by Executive Director, Peter Power, is on the ground in Jordan Za’atari refugee camp.
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.
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