June 2012: Decades of conflict, deep poverty and recurrent drought continue to devastate Somalia’s children. On 20 July 2012, Somalia marks one year since famine was declared in parts of the country, amid the worst drought in 60 years. Some 450,000 children remain at risk of acute malnutrition.
May 2013: Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of children living in institutions is conservatively estimated at 240,000.
December 2012: Adolescent participants in a UNICEF-supported project digitally mapped HIV risks in two Port-au-Prince neighbourhoods.
March 2013: An October 2012 immunization campaign against measles and rubella in Mongolia reached over 500,000 children.
October 2012: Pakistan is one of only three remaining polio-endemic countries in the world.