The Latest Breaking News from Unicef

This blog is now closed

Exclusive: Territory is ‘one of the most, if not the most dangerous place to be a child’, Catherine Russell says, and ‘we desperately need this conflict to end’

Unicef, the UN agency for children, reported in June 2024 that around 11 million Nigerian children were experiencing severe child food poverty.

It was only when 12-year-old Senegalese schoolboy Lassou Samb prepared to sit his end-of-year exams that his lack of any legal documentation finally caught up with him.

Warning increases concern low-level conflict across the Israel-Lebanon border could escalate into full-scale war.

Vaccine misinformation has added to crisis of collapsed healthcare and poor nutrition, Unicef and WHO report

Priyanka Chopra, the Bollywood and Hollywood star, shines at a social event with friends, exuding charm and grace. Her radiant presence and philanthropic s...

"Why didn't I pick up on his pain?" "The pain is there, but so is life -- in the here and now," Paoli insisted.

Country has largest internally displaced population on record, with 7 million uprooted since fighting began in April 2023

Displaced children account for more than half of the 600,000 people who have been forced to flee their homes due to violence, according to UNICEF, particularly in the capital Port-au-Prince, much of which is controlled by gangs.

More than 300,000 children are displaced in Haiti since gangs forced out Prime Minister Ariel Henry and took over the capital Port-au-Prince earlier this year, UNICEF says. Many children, some of whom are forced to join gangs, are living in makeshift shelters and lack access to food, health care, clean…