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Around 90,000 children impacted by Cyclone Chido in Mozambique

·December 18, 2024·2 min read

Current assessments show the storm destroyed or damaged over 35,000 homes, displaced thousands of families, and impacted more than 90,000 children, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday. Classrooms destroyed; infrastructure damaged According to the latest situation report, at least 174,000 people have been impacted overall but numbers may increase as...

First Person: Tears of joy as Argentinian city children encounter nature for first time

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·December 7, 2024·4 min read

Ana Di Pangracio works for the civil society organization Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales or FARN which is involved in projects to restore degraded land in Argentina. She spoke to UN News in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she was attending a UN conference (COP16) focused on desertification, drought and land...

Children of Sudan show ‘a strength that deserves recognition’

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·December 5, 2024·3 min read

Despite the staggering challenges, he found hope and resilience in their stories. The nearly 19 months of relentless conflict in Sudan has devastated millions, with children bearing the brunt of the crisis. Over five million children have been forcibly displaced, according to the UN. In response, UNICEF and its...

Ukraine: UNICEF chief urges greater protection for children ‘caught in this nightmare’

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·December 5, 2024·2 min read

Catherine Russell, head of UN child rights agency, UNICEF, appealed for greater protection efforts by both the international community and the parties to the conflict, and a political solution to end the war. “Children are depending on this Council to provide solutions. We cannot and we must not let them...

Lebanon: Increased violence is the ‘horrific new normal’ for children, warns UNICEF

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·November 20, 2024·3 min read

Peacekeepers have witnessed the “shocking” destruction of villages in southern Lebanon along the UN-patrolled Blue Line that separates the country from Israel, along with ever-deeper Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ground incursions and continuing Hezbollah attacks, the UN said on Tuesday. While the Mission’s monitoring capabilities are limited because of the...

Gaza: Polio campaign reaches 94,000 children in besieged north

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·November 4, 2024·2 min read

Richard Peeperkorn of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said the target was to reach all children in the north with the second and final dose. “We covered many more children than we expected, but we missed some,” he said during a briefing via videolink for...

251 million children still out of school worldwide, UNESCO reports

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·October 31, 2024·1 min read

The findings reveal that global efforts to ensure universal education have hit a concerning plateau, with the out-school population reducing by only 1 percent in nearly 10 years. Progress and challenges “Education is the key driver of prosperous, inclusive and peaceful societies,” said UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay. “Yet, quality education...

Sudan: ‘Children should be safe everywhere’, says UNICEF, as fears grow for El Fasher

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·October 8, 2024·2 min read

UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric reminded journalists in New York at the regular noon briefing that famine conditions have already been confirmed in the Zamzam camp for the displaced, just outside the city, “and we think that other camps in the area are likely to have famine conditions.” El Fasher is...

‘Orphanage city’ helps children in Gaza as the war grinds on

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·October 4, 2024·5 min read

The latest death toll has surpassed more than 41,000 people, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health – the majority of them women and children – while most of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have been forcibly displaced and trapped in only 10 per cent of the territory, but in...

World News in Brief: Half of Haiti’s displaced are children, alarm over low immunisation rates, aid to East Africa

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·October 2, 2024·3 min read

New data from the International Organization for Migration indicates a 22 per cent spike in the number of people uprooted from their homes since June. IOM said that gang violence had forced more than 110,000 people to flee their homes in the last seven months, particularly in Gressier, which lies...

Gaza: 160,000 more children vaccinated against polio in southern Gaza

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·September 6, 2024·2 min read

UN agencies and partners in the Strip will continue to vaccinate “as many Gazan children as possible” during the agreed humanitarian pauses, before moving to the north of the war-shattered enclave, UNRWA added. Thousands of families visited health centers to get their doses from UN medical teams, UNRWA reported. In...

Gaza: Disease and war stalk children, despite vaccine success

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·September 5, 2024·2 min read

It’s been nearly 11 months since war erupted in the enclave following Hamas-led terror attacks in Israel. Today more than nine in 10 people have been forcibly displaced by the fighting, leaving them vulnerable to hunger, malnutrition and sickness. “So far, we’ve been able to vaccinate 187,000 children and as...