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Latest press releases, news notes and statements

Sandy Chuol, 10, heads home with the jerrycan of clean water

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1 in 3 people globally do not have access to safe drinking water – UNICEF, WHO

New report on inequalities in access to water, sanitation and hygiene also reveals more than half of the world does not have access to safe sanitation services.

18/06/2019

Nigeria. A woman presses her hand against a screen door.

Statement

UNICEF condemns use of children as human bombs in north-east Nigeria

Statement by UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, Peter Hawkins

17/06/2019

Jane Tiko feeds a therapeutic formula to her nine-month-old son Simon Ladok in the malnutrition ward in the Al-Sabbah children's hospital in Juba, South Sudan, Wednesday 15 March 2017. The ward is for children who suffer from malnutrition and associated complications.

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Record number of people facing critical lack of food in South Sudan

61 per cent of the population are projected to face crisis levels of food insecurity or worse

14/06/2019

A newborn baby girl born on 31 Dec 2018 lies in nursery at 22 May Hospital in Dolaa Hamdan, Sana'a Governorate. More than four years of armed conflict in Yemen have served to worsen the situation of women and children at birth within a country that was already the poorest in the Middle East and one of the world’s most impoverished even before the war escalated early in 2015.

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One woman and six newborns die every two hours from complications during pregnancy or childbirth in Yemen - UNICEF

14/06/2019

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UNICEF launches swift response as first Ebola cases and deaths confirmed in Uganda

5-year-old boy and his grandmother die from Ebola virus in western Uganda

13/06/2019

Alex Edmonds Brown holds his son Harley James, in a private room in the maternity ward of the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, in Exeter, Devon, England, 28 February 2018.

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Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Estonia and Portugal rank highest for family-friendly policies in OECD and EU countries

Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, United Kingdom and Ireland among lowest ranking countries

12/06/2019

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Statement

Children killed, injured, detained and abused amid escalating violence and unrest in Sudan

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

11/06/2019

4 June 2019: A child playing on the roof of El Carmen school in Barrio Union, Petare, in the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela. It is too dangerous to play outside and children head straight home as soon as they leave school. Even a basketball hoop right outside the school was removed to discourage children from hanging out outdoors.

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UNICEF ramps up humanitarian assistance to children in Venezuela, delivers 55 tons of health supplies since January

3.2 million children – or 1 in 3 – need assistance

07/06/2019

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Pocket-sized innovation, giant impact: New app and online system launches in South Sudan to support most vulnerable children

The innovations will support case workers helping unaccompanied and separated children, child survivors of sexual violence, and children associated with armed groups.

06/06/2019

Adolescents in Nepal perform a sketch on child marriage as part of a global programme to help end child marriage

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115 million boys and men around the world married as children - UNICEF

First ever analysis on child grooms brings global child marriage figures to 765 million

06/06/2019

A girl playing with her sister in Bihar, India

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New Dove and UNICEF partnership to reach 10 million young people with essential self-esteem and body confidence education

05/06/2019

On 24 October 2016 in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, children pass in front of a flame fed by waste and rubber materials in order to make Kanda, a type of smoked meat, at an abattoir. The workers at the slaughterhouse use cow bones, rubber tires, electric wires, aluminum cans and other waste to sustain the flames, making the fumes very dangerous to inhale.

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Only 6 per cent of children in Africa live in areas where air pollution is reliably measured at the ground-level

More reliable ground-level measurements are required to combat this silent killer of children, particularly in Africa where the problem is growing and gravely under-studied

04/06/2019