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18 September 2019

Protracted conflict, the climate crisis, a rise in mental illness and online misinformation among biggest emerging threats to children - UNICEF

In an open letter marking 30 years since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF’s Executive Director sounds the alarm on major growing and future challenges facing children

12 September 2019

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on child deaths in the Gaza Strip

Illustration of school children raising"not a target" sign

July ends with brutal acts of violence perpetrated against children across the Middle East and North Africa

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

Two boys at music workshop

Friendship: Something to Remember

Despite fleeing and being forced to leave their homes and create new lives, children’s memories have not been left behind.

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Quand les adultes continuent à tuer les enfants en toute impunité, Quand les enfants sauvent la vie d’autres enfants, Il n’y a pas de mots assez forts pour exprimer notre indignation…

Déclaration de Geert Cappelaere, Directeur Régional de l’UNICEF pour l’Afrique du Nord et le Moyen Orient

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When adults keep killing children, without being held accountable; When it is children who save other children’s lives There are no words…

From Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa

Al Hol Camp

Unwanted, exploited and abused: tens of thousands of children in Al-Hol camp and several parts of Syria in limbo amid dire humanitarian needs

UNICEF calls for improved humanitarian access and protection of children including re-integration into local communities and safe return to home countries

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More than 1000 people joined UNICEF Child Rights Festival at the opening of the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Lebanon

#ForEveryChild, every right.

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

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

Boy sentenced to death in Sudan for crime reportedly committed as a child

Statement by Abdullah Fadil, UNICEF Sudan Representative

Attack in Taiz leaves 7 children dead, brings total child casualties in Yemen to 27 in just over 10 days

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

Doctor examining baby

UNICEF reaches children with lifesaving healthcare services

“I wanted to volunteer as a nurse to help children and mothers who are unable to get healthcare elsewhere,”

Five children reportedly executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

From Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director in the Middle East and North Africa

Blast in Sana’a kills another 14 children in school and injures 16, most under the age of nine

More than 400 children killed and seriously injured since beginning of 2019

Children around a piano

“11”: Four decade-old songs renewed in album from children in Syria and the Middle East

UNICEF produces its first ever children’s songs album in cooperation with renown musician Jad Rahbani and the European Union

Children sitting on the ground

#ChildrenUnderAttack

2018 deadliest year yet for children in Syria as war enters 9th year

Child in a camp

Syria Crisis Fast Facts

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Syria Crisis Fast Facts 2019 (PDF, 1 MB)

Children in a camp

2018 deadliest year yet for children in Syria as war enters 9th year

Ahead of high-level pledging conference and in run-up to 8-year-mark of conflict, UNICEF calls for protection of Syrian children and durable solutions to their plight

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27 February 2019

"11" Kids Songs

Songs from children to children

Two children looking from behind their tent drapes

24 February 2019

The brutal war on children in Yemen continues unabated Across Yemen, 1.2 million children face active conflict every day

Ahead of the Yemen Pledging Conference, UNICEF calls to prioritize children and respect their fundamental rights

21 February 2019

Interview opportunity: UNICEF at the Geneva Pledging Conference for Yemen

09 February 2019

Two children killed in the Gaza Strip

From Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa

03 December 2018

Interview opportunity: High-level UNICEF visit to Aden, Yemen

3-5 December 2018

A girl laughing as she holds a dog

30 November 2018

Children in the State of Palestine

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Children in the State of Palestine (PDF, 13 MB)

الأطفال في دولة فلسطين (PDF, 12 MB)

30 November 2018

Conflict shuts a third of schools in Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah

Over 60,000 children out of school

a child in winter clothes

27 November 2018

#ForEveryChild, Warmth

UNICEF Winter Appeal 2018-2019

A boy carrying winter clothes

27 November 2018

UNICEF Winter Report

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UNICEF Winter Report (PDF, 813 KB)

A child walks through a flooded camp

27 November 2018

Funding gaps threaten to leave nearly 1 million children out in the cold in the Middle East and North Africa

UNICEF facing $33 million funding shortfall for lifesaving winter supplies and cash assistance for children, placing them at risk of illness, school absences or death

22 November 2018

UNICEF Regional Director celebrates World Children’s day in the UAE

World Children's Day Banner

14 November 2018

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Children are taking over and turning the world blue. Sign the petition.

A baby suffering from malnutrition

11 November 2018

Fast Facts: Yemen Crisis

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Yemen Fast Facts (PDF, 2 MB)

اليمن حقائق سريعة (PDF, 2 MB)

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Yemen: Where does this cruelty end?

Statement attributable to Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director in the Middle East and North Africa

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UNICEF thanks The State of Kuwait for its continuous and exemplary generous support to children in the Middle East

Recent donation of 59 million US$ to Yemen

A boy sitting in the back of a truck loaded with household items

Horror knows no limit in Syria: Statement attributable to Henrietta H. Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, on the situation in southwest Syria

Statement on the impact of renewed hostilities between the Gaza strip and Israel on children

Attributable to Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa

UNICEF Regional Director sitting at a desk with a girl in a school

Children and youth at the heart of Algeria’s priorities

Collective efforts allowed considerable progress towards the realization of child rights.

UNICEF calls for the protection of children in the Gaza Strip

Statement attributable to Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director in the Middle East and North Africa

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Palestine: towards integrated social protection services

it is not too late to restore dignity and to give the children a second chance, through the integrated social protection system that Palestine is building.

Boy at a technical school working

28 February 2018

“Never give up, no matter what”: Shuaib’s story

“It was very hard to concentrate because I was dizzy and in pain all the time,”

Children sitting in a classroom

26 February 2018

New skills, new you — giving kids in Kirkuk a place to grow

Children in Kirkuk, Iraq spent every day of their summer holiday at a youth centre

A family portrait from Duhok, Iraq.

26 February 2018

Water is essential for life

Lara, 4, wearing a mask and carrying her warm winter clothing kit from UNICEF.

14 February 2018

What we do

Working to ensure that every child and young person survives and thrives

Two young girls standing amidst rubble

12 February 2018

Committing to change > Securing the future

Kuwait Reconstruction Conference for Iraq - February 2018

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المؤتمر الدولي لإعادة إعمار العراق: بيانات أساسية (PDF, 373 KB)

المؤتمر الدولي لإعادة إعمار العراق: التقرير (PDF, 2 MB)

Kuwait Reconstruction Conference for Iraq: Report (PDF, 2 MB)

Kuwait Reconstruction Conference for Iraq: Fact Sheet (PDF, 387 KB)

Young girl standing against a wall

01 January 2018

UNICEF Strategic Plan: 2018-2021

Executive Summary

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UNICEF Strategic Plan: 2018-2021: Executive Summary (PDF, 2 MB)

Child drinks out of a tap

06 December 2017

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22 October 2017

125 children associated with armed conflict released in Zintan, Libya

Statement Attributable to Abdel Rahman Ghandour, UNICEF Special Representative in Libya

18 October 2017

Not a new school year! Endless violence shutters schools, teachers unpaid for a year, threatening education for 4.5 million children in Yemen

Statement by Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa

Amid scorching heatwave, access to water and electricity down by one-third in the Gaza Strip

All children in the Gaza Strip are at risk of waterborne diseases; incidence of diarrhea in children under three years old has doubled

UNICEF thanks the European Union for generous funding to protect and educate children in Libya

More than half a million children in Libya need humanitarian assistance

Statement from UNICEF Regional Director, Geert Cappelaere, following his first visit to the country