Link
04/30/2020
In Uganda, COVID-19 doesn't stop routine immunizations
https://www.unicef.org/uganda/stories/parents-and-caregivers-brave-covid-19-lockdown-immunize-their-children
Health facilities take precautions to make sure services can be accessed safely
Partner site
04/30/2020
Art and lockdown
https://www.voicesofyouth.org/blog/art-and-lockdown-your-drawings-time-coronavirus
Children share some of the art they have created since the COVID-19 pandemic began
Article
04/30/2020
Through pandemics and epidemics, hope stays alive
https://www.unicef.org/stories/through-pandemics-epidemics-hope-stays-alive
For more than 70 years, we have been working to improve the lives of children and their families. Our mission is made possible by a strong network of talented and dedicated staff that includes physicians, clinicians, logistics experts and communication specialists. As the global COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, we look back at UNICEF's history of…
Press release
04/29/2020
New guidelines provide roadmap for safe reopening of schools
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/new-guidelines-provide-roadmap-safe-reopening-schools
NEW YORK/PARIS/ROME, 30 April 2020 – UNESCO, UNICEF, WFP and World Bank today issued new guidelines on the safe reopening of schools amidst ongoing closures affecting nearly 1.3 billion students worldwide. The agencies also warned that the widespread closures of educational facilities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic present an unprecedented…
Press release
04/29/2020
Greta Thunberg and NGO Human Act launch a child rights driven coronavirus campaign for UNICEF
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/greta-thunberg-and-ngo-human-act-launch-child-rights-driven-coronavirus-campaign
NEW YORK, 30 April 2020 – Climate activist Greta Thunberg today launched a child rights driven campaign with Danish NGO Human Act to support UNICEF’s efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic and protect children from its direct and knock-on consequences. These include food shortages, strained healthcare systems, violence and lost education. “Like…
Statement
04/29/2020
COVID-19 & Immigration Detention: What Can Governments and Other Stakeholders Do?
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/covid-19-immigration-detention-what-can-governments-and-other-stakeholders-do
GENEVA / NEW YORK, 29 April 2020 - Around the world today, we are witnessing the severe impacts of the use of migration-related detention on migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees during the COVID-19 pandemic – indefinite detention in overcrowded facilities for some, prolonged situations of irregularity and fear of detention for others, heightened…
Document
04/29/2020
Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19 on Menstrual Health and Hygiene
https://www.unicef.org/documents/mitigating-impacts-covid-19-menstrual-health-and-hygiene
The brief aims to help actors in the COVID-19 response anticipate and mitigate the secondary impacts of the pandemic on girls’ and women’s ability to manage their menstruation. Seventy per cent of health care workers are women, and shortages of essential menstrual hygiene products like sanitary pads or tampons are already affecting certain…
Document
04/29/2020
Framework for Reopening Schools
https://www.unicef.org/documents/framework-reopening-schools
Global school closures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic present an unprecedented risk to children’s education, protection and well-being. Schools do much more than teach children how to read, write and count. They also provide nutrition, health and hygiene services; mental health and psychosocial support; and dramatically reduce the risk of…
Statement
04/29/2020
Eleven children reported killed in an attack on a crowded market in Afrin, northern Syria
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/eleven-children-reported-killed-attack-crowded-market-afrin-northern-syria
AMMAN, 29 April 2020- “It is tragic that 11 children were reportedly killed and many more were injured when a bomb went off near a fuel tanker in a crowded market in Afrin city, northern rural Aleppo yesterday. “We fear that the death toll might be much higher. “Ten years into the brutal conflict in Syria, children continue to be hit the hardest…
Press release
04/29/2020
Over 5 million children face threat of cholera and acute water diarrhea in the midst of COVID-19 as Yemen gets heavy rains
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/over-5-million-children-face-threat-cholera-and-acute-water-diarrhea-midst-covid-19
SANA’A/ADEN, 29 April 2020- Over 5 million children under the age of five in Yemen are facing a heightened threat of cholera and Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) as the country continues to experience increased heavy rains since mid-April. More than 110,000 cases of suspected cholera have been recorded across 290 of Yemen’s 331 districts since January…