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Press release

31 January 2023

Japan allocates 750,000 US dollars to UNICEF to improve access to and use of climate-resilient Emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services in Libya

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Statement

29 January 2023

UNICEF calls for the protection of all children amidst increase of violence in the State of Palestine and Israel

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Press release

18 January 2023

Children from the poorest households benefit the least from national public education funding – UNICEF

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Julien, 8 months, received his vaccines against polio and measles at a health centre in As-Sweida city, south Syria, on 17 October 2022. “I believe that vaccines shield children from diseases,” said his mother Kholoud.

Press release

10 January 2023

A child or youth died once every 4.4 seconds in 2021 – UN report

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Statement

03 January 2023

UN humanitarian leaders urge Security Council to preserve crossborder aid lifeline to north-west Syria

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Internally displaced children help their parents during the winter clothes distribution in Kabish Wasti informal settlement, Raqqa, Syria on 16 February 2022.

Press release

13 December 2022

UNICEF appeals for US$2.6 billion to meet increasing children’s needs in the Middle East and North Africa

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Ibrahim wears his artificial limbs in the prosthetic centre in Aden, Yemen on 14 October 2021.

Press release

12 December 2022

More than 11,000 children killed or injured in Yemen

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Press release

10 December 2022

On International Human Rights Day UN Agencies and Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights urge action to uphold gender equal nationality rights across the Middle East-North Africa Region

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