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A woman, carrying a baby

09 December 2021

COVID-19 ‘biggest global crisis for children in our 75-year history’ – UNICEF

On its 75th anniversary, UNICEF warns that COVID-19 is rolling back virtually every measure of progress for children, including a staggering 100 million more children plunged into poverty

Children reading

05 October 2021

Les effets néfastes de la COVID-19 sur la santé mentale des enfants et des jeunes ne seraient que la « partie émergée de l’iceberg » – UNICEF

D’après une nouvelle étude, la contribution aux économies perdue en raison des troubles mentaux chez les jeunes est estimée à près de 390 milliards de dollars par an

A young girl looking at the camera.

21 September 2021

Schools still closed for nearly 77 million students 18 months into pandemic – UNICEF

UNICEF and partners’ digital channels to close down for 18 hours to mark 18 months of school closures and send one message to the world: Reopen schools as soon as possible

Happy girls in the village of Alibeit, in the South of Chad. For every child, friendship

09 September 2020

COVID-19 could reverse decades of progress toward eliminating preventable child deaths, agencies warn

With the number of under-five deaths at an all-time recorded low of 5.2 million in 2019, disruptions in child and maternal health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic are putting millions of additional lives at stake