This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for the immediate release of all children detained during the recent public unrest in Iran, expressing deep concern that minors arrested in connection with the protests remain behind bars. The unrest erupted in late December 2025 in cities across Iran […]UNICEF calls for release of children detained during Iran protests
February 20, 2026 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for the immediate release of all children detained during the recent public unrest in Iran, expressing deep concern that minors arrested in connection with the protests remain behind bars. The unrest erupted in late December 2025 in cities across Iran […]World News in Brief: Gaza winter storm, $7 billion UNICEF appeal, support for emergency response fund
December 11, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. As another winter storm hits the Gaza Strip, low temperatures and rains are putting the lives of newborns and other vulnerable groups at risk, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said on Wednesday. Following two years of war, most of Gaza’s roughly two million residents are living in makeshift shelters. Humanitarians […]UNICEF: 20% of world’s children still trapped in extreme poverty
November 21, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. More than 19 per cent of children worldwide live in extreme poverty, surviving on under $3 a day, according to a new UNICEF report. Nearly 90 per cent of those children are in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, but even in high-income countries, 23 per cent live […]Funding cuts could push 6 million more children out of school, warns UNICEF
September 3, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Global education funding is facing sharp reductions that could leave an extra six million children out of school by 2026, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Wednesday. Official Development Assistance (ODA) for education is projected to fall by $3.2 billion – a 24 per cent drop […]Syria: UNICEF calls for safe access to children in Sweida as needs mount
August 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Humanitarians must be able to reach families affected by the “deeply alarming” recent violence in Syria’s Sweida region who need food and other basics to survive, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday. Deadly sectarian clashes erupted in the southern governorate, also known as As-Sweida, in […]Sudan war exacerbates risk of cholera and malaria: UNICEF
May 29, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned of an escalating public health crisis in Sudan, as conflict and mass displacement continue to drive a surge in disease, particularly cholera and malaria. In a report released Wednesday, UNICEF highlighted the growing threat of cholera in the war-torn country, with […]Four children dead in ‘horrific’ attack on school bus in Baluchistan: UNICEF
May 22, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. An “horrific” attack on a school bus in Pakistan’s Baluchistan Province on Wednesday which left six dead – including four children – has been condemned by the UN children’s agency. The attack which left others wounded, took place in the district of Khuzdar, about 250 kilometres south […]8 million teens in world’s wealthiest countries functionally illiterate: UNICEF
May 15, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Children in many of the world’s wealthiest countries saw marked declines in their academic performance, mental wellbeing, and physical health as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report published by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday. Comparing data from 2018 and 2022, UNICEF found that the […]More than one million children in Gaza deprived of aid for over a month: UNICEF
April 7, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The blockade of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip is having dire consequences for more than a million children, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Saturday. No aid has been allowed into Gaza since 2 March, representing the longest period of aid blockage since the start […]UNICEF condemns looting of lifesaving supplies for children in Sudan
March 24, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday strongly condemned the looting of vital humanitarian supplies from Al Bashair Hospital in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, warning that the theft puts thousands of malnourished children and mothers at risk. The attack on one of the last operational hospitals in […]Sudan war: Children facing ‘unimaginable suffering’, warns UNICEF chief
March 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Sudan is now the world’s largest and most devastating humanitarian crisis, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Thursday. After two years of war, over 30 million people – more than half of them children – are living in the grip of mass atrocities, […]Nine out of 10 Gazans unable to access safe drinking water: UNICEF
March 11, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Severe water shortages in Gaza have reached critical levels, with only one in 10 people currently able to access safe drinking water, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Monday. The situation has deteriorated further following Israel’s decision on Sunday to cut power to the enclave – […]Gaza: Israeli aid cut threatens care for most vulnerable, warns UNICEF
March 6, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The unilateral halt to aid deliveries entering Gaza announced by the Israeli authorities on Sunday has left Gazans afraid of a return to violence and lifesaving healthcare services under threat, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has warned. The agency said that despite the huge influx of humanitarian […]Sudan: Children as young as one raped during conflict, UNICEF warns
March 5, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. As conflict rages across Sudan, armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children, including some infants as young as one, according to the UN children’s agency (UNICEF). Data from gender-based violence service providers in Sudan reveals the scale of the horror: more than 220 reported cases of […]Haiti: Massive surge in child armed group recruitment, warns UNICEF
March 3, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The ongoing emergency in Haiti is crushing children’s chances of an education and a better future as scores of youngsters are recruited by heavily armed and violent gangs, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday. UNICEF’s representative in Haiti, Geetanjali Narayan, told journalists that just last […]13 children killed in the West Bank since year began: UNICEF
February 13, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has voiced deep alarm at the growing number of children killed, injured and displaced in the occupied West Bank, as violence continues to escalate. In a statement issued by Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, the […]Toxic air threatens children’s lives across East Asia and the Pacific, UNICEF warns
February 7, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. More than 100 children under the age of five die every day in East Asia and the Pacific due to air pollution, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned in a new analysis released on Thursday, calling for urgent action to tackle the crisis. The analysis underscores the […]‘Robbed’ of their childhood: UNICEF warns of crisis facing Haiti’s youth
February 3, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Violent clashes this week between security forces and armed groups on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince have led to another wave of displacement, according to the UN aid coordination office (OCHA). In a briefing on Friday, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric reported that more than 1,600 men, women and […]Ukraine: UNICEF alarmed over incessant attacks devastating young lives
February 3, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The largest UN agency in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, UNRWA, said on Friday that its staff are still providing aid to the people of Gaza and the West Bank including East Jerusalem who depend on them “for their sheer survival”, a day after the Israeli parliament ban […]Ukraine: UNICEF chief urges greater protection for children ‘caught in this nightmare’
December 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The plight of children impacted by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was the focus of debate in the UN Security Council on Wednesday. Catherine Russell, head of UN child rights agency, UNICEF, appealed for greater protection efforts by both the international community and the parties to the […]Lebanon: Increased violence is the ‘horrific new normal’ for children, warns UNICEF
November 20, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Andrea Tenenti, spokesperson for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), told reporters in Geneva that ground clashes inside Lebanon – some of them very close to UNIFIL positions – have become “more violent”. Peacekeepers have witnessed the “shocking” destruction of villages in southern Lebanon along the […]Potentially ‘deadly’ consequences could arise from Israel’s UNRWA ban: UNICEF
November 1, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday that Israeli legislation to shut down the main lifeline for Palestine refugees in Gaza “will be deadly” if fully implemented. The Israeli Parliament, known as the Knesset, adopted two bills on Monday banning UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA from […]UNICEF renews school protection call in Ukraine amid ‘deadly reality’ of attacks
September 9, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Continued Russian attacks across Ukraine this week made for a tragic start to the new school year, a senior official with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a statement on Friday. John Marks, interim UNICEF Representative in Ukraine, issued a renewed appeal for schools to be […]Polio vaccines arrive in Gaza in boost to vaccination campaign: UNICEF
August 27, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced on Monday the arrival of 1.2 million doses of vital polio vaccines in Gaza, amid urgent calls for humanitarian pauses to reach hundreds of thousands of at-risk children. More than 640,000 children are targeted to receive the polio […]Attack on a city in Sudan kills at least five and injures more: UNICEF
August 16, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Bombing which devastated a school and market in the Sudanese city of El Obeid on Wednesday has left five girls dead and 20 children injured according to the UN Children’s Fund’s Sudan Representative. The bomb hit the Al-Khansa Secondary School for Girls and a crowded marketplace in […]Extreme heat increasingly disrupting child health, UNICEF warns
August 15, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. One in five children – or 466 million – live in areas that experience at least double the number of extremely hot days every year compared with their grandparents’ generation, according to a new UNICEF analysis released on Wednesday. “Extreme heat is increasing, disrupting children’s health, well-being and daily […]Sudan: UNICEF condemns deadly strike as war grinds on
August 13, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. An attack on a UN facility for displaced people in Sudan has left two dead and at least eight others injured, humanitarians have reported. Condemning the incident at the weekend, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said that the youngsters had been playing football when a shell struck […]UNICEF warns against escalating violence in the Middle East
August 9, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The recent surge in violence and attacks in the Middle East is taking a shocking toll on young lives in the region, a senior official with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday in an appeal for de-escalation. “Children in many countries in the Middle East […]Deadly and growing impact of air pollution laid bare in new UNICEF-backed report
June 19, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The State of Global Air (SoGA) report published in partnership with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warns on Wednesday that air pollution is increasingly impacting human health – and is now the second leading global risk factor for premature death. The fifth edition of the report, released […]On the ground in Rafah: UNICEF reports ‘lethal’ lack of water, services
June 17, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Almost 3,000 malnourished children are at risk of dying before their families’ eyes in Gaza, where the eight-month-long war continues, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as spokesperson James Elder told UN News on Saturday about the situation on the ground in the besieged and bombarded […]How will generative AI affect children? The need for answers has never been more urgent
August 23, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Steven Vosloo, Digital Foresight and Policy Specialist, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Children are using generative AI but are often hiding it from teachers and parents.There are plenty of benefits to generative AI but there are also many […]UNICEF calls on supply chain and transport industry to take COVID-19 vaccines to the world
February 25, 2021 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Margi Van Gogh, Head of Supply Chain and Transport, World Economic Forum & Etleva Kadilli, Director, Supply Division, UNICEF UNICEF will play critical role in supporting the transport and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to low and lower middle-income […]One in three children do not get the nutrition they need
October 16, 2019 by 3 Comments
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Victor M Aguayo, Associate director and global chief of nutrition, programme division, UNICEF When you read the words child malnutrition, you will most likely see a child with a hollow face and a swollen stomach in one of the […]
