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12-year-old Yousef holds destroyed books at Jummuria Secondary School. Yousef dreams of becoming a police officer. The school was severely damaged by shelling during the war in Mosul.

Staggering scale of grave violations against children in conflict revealed in new UNICEF analysis

Between 2015 and 2020, average of 71 verified grave violations against children every day

CAAC 25 year report

25 Years of Children and Armed Conflict

Taking action to protect children in war

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Thirteen Palestinian children killed in the West Bank since January 2022

UNICEF reiterates call to protect all children, at all times

On 5 November 2019 at the Zam Zam IDP camp, in El-Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan, Nafisa Ali Abdullah (left), Health Awareness Counsellor, shows Zainab Ahmed Khamiz how to feed Plumpy'Nut to her 11-month-old daughter Maria who suffers from malnutrition.

World a ‘virtual tinderbox’ for catastrophic levels of severe malnutrition in children

Soaring food prices driven by the war in Ukraine and pandemic-fuelled budget cuts set to drive up both need for, and cost of life-saving therapeutic food treatment, the latter by up to 16 per cent

Libya: Children killed and injured by explosive remnants of war

From Lana Wreikat, Acting UNICEF Special Representative in Libya

children in a classroom tent

UNICEF delivers – 11 years on

Marking the impact of years of conflict on children in Syria

Fadel Abdulhameed, 10 years old, studies in the fourth grade at Al Zyadi School in Al Zyadi Village, Lahj governorate, Yemen. “My favorite subject is the Holy Quran. I want to be a doctor when I grow older to treat people.”

Yemen crisis

Yemen is one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises – and children are being robbed of their futures.

Children enjoying a session in a centre

Finding strength to heal from loss and trauma

Marking the impact of 11 years of conflict on children in Syria

A girl holding a hula hoop

Syria: children struggle with physical and psychological scars after 11 years of war

A child carrying two balloons

Children and the Syria regional crisis

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