UNITED NATIONS: Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza have continued to flee intense hostilities in Khan Younis towards the massively overcrowded southern city of Rafah which UN humanitarian officials described as a “pressure cooker of despair.” The warning from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, comes
DAVOS: Carla Haddad Mardini, director of UNICEF’s private fundraising and partnerships division, has highlighted the importance of integrating “a child-sensitive lens” in all aspects of the private sector’s work. In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Haddad Mardini said that children’s rights must
UNITED NATIONS, United States: Sixty-nine million children — or more than one in five — live in poverty in the world’s 40 richest countries UNICEF said in a report released Wednesday, blasting Britain and France for their particularly bad standings. That’s despite a drop in child
NEW YORK: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned that children living in South Asian countries are at risk due to worsening water scarcity in the region. The majority of the most affected children reside in South, South East Asia, Central Asia, and some sub-Saharan
NEW YORK: Weather disasters fueled by climate change -- from floods to droughts, storms to wildfires -- sparked 43.1 million child displacements from 2016 to 2021, the UN Children's Fund warned Thursday, slamming the lack of attention paid to victims. In a sweeping report on the
LONDON: A new UNICEF-World Bank analysis estimates that one in six children globally (around 333 million) live in extreme poverty, and warns that at current rates of reduction, the Sustainable Development Goal of ending extreme child poverty by 2030 will not be met. The “Global Trends
GENEVA: More than 1,300 schools have been totally destroyed in government-held areas of Ukraine since Russia’s 2022 invasion and others have been badly damaged, the UN children’s fund UNICEF said. Persistent attacks mean that only about a third of school-age children there are attending classes fully
ABUJA: The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, plans to commit $270 million to Nigeria’s humanitarian and poverty alleviation efforts and pledged to help set up an emergency operation center, its executives said on Wednesday. The government of President Bola Tinubu wants to lift 133 million citizens
Cairo: About 300 infants, toddlers and older children have been rescued from an orphanage in Sudan’s capital after being trapped there while fighting raged outside, aid officials said. The evacuation came after 71 children died from hunger and illness in the facility since mid-April. The tragedy
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo: Four men with machetes were hard on their heels as a group of women raced through the dense forest surrounding east Congo's city of Goma, desperate to reach a displacement camp they had left to collect firewood. One tripped on a