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Mother during her child's check-up at a health center in Picong, Lanao del Sur

150 million additional children plunged into poverty due to COVID-19, UNICEF, Save the Children say

New analysis reveals the number of children living in multidimensional poverty – without access to education, health, housing, nutrition, sanitation, or water – has increased by 15 per cent since the start of the pandemic

COVID-19 may push millions more children into child labour – ILO and UNICEF

Child labour down by 94 million since 2000, a gain now under threat

A health worker wearing a protective face shield and face mask stands outside a UNICEF tent

As COVID-19 devastates already fragile health systems, over 6,000 additional children under five could die a day, without urgent action

UNICEF launches #Reimagine, a global campaign to prevent the pandemic from becoming a lasting crisis for children

UNICEF scales up support in 145 countries to keep children learning, as COVID-19 forces majority of schools worldwide to close

Staff members from UNICEF and the Department of Health, wearing their respective branded shirts, inspect UNICEF tents delivered to the Department of Health warehouse

UN launches global humanitarian response plan to COVID-19 pandemic

Remarks by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

Waves of protests around the world are reminder that voices of children and adolescents must be heard and their rights protected

Henrietta Fore becomes new UNICEF Executive Director

UNICEF: Make the digital world safer for children – while increasing online access to benefit the most disadvantaged

Flagship report highlights digital divides and explores current debates about the impact of the internet and social media on children’s safety and wellbeing

Two billion people lack safe drinking water, more than twice lack safe sanitation

UNICEF reaches almost half of the world’s children with life-saving vaccines

Despite progress, millions of young children still miss out on life-saving immunization