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Geneva Palais briefing note on the situation for children in the North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon

Over 80 per cent of schools closed as a result of crisis, denying more than 600,000 children access to education

21/06/2019

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Dreaming of the Ivy League in Sudan

A student in a camp for internally displaced persons aces an exam – and brings his dream of Columbia University a step closer

20/06/2019

Nigeria. A woman presses her hand against a screen door.

Statement

UNICEF condemns use of children as human bombs in north-east Nigeria

Statement by UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, Peter Hawkins

17/06/2019

Jane Tiko feeds a therapeutic formula to her nine-month-old son Simon Ladok in the malnutrition ward in the Al-Sabbah children's hospital in Juba, South Sudan, Wednesday 15 March 2017. The ward is for children who suffer from malnutrition and associated complications.

Press release

Record number of people facing critical lack of food in South Sudan

61 per cent of the population are projected to face crisis levels of food insecurity or worse

14/06/2019

A newborn baby girl born on 31 Dec 2018 lies in nursery at 22 May Hospital in Dolaa Hamdan, Sana'a Governorate. More than four years of armed conflict in Yemen have served to worsen the situation of women and children at birth within a country that was already the poorest in the Middle East and one of the world’s most impoverished even before the war escalated early in 2015.

Press release

One woman and six newborns die every two hours from complications during pregnancy or childbirth in Yemen - UNICEF

14/06/2019

Syria. Children rest beneath a tree at a makeshift camp in Aqrabat village.

Article

Fleeing violence in Syria

Escalating violence in northwest Syria has left tens of thousands of children at imminent risk of injury, death and displacement

10/06/2019

Ehsanullah, 11, stands in a classroom totally destroyed in the fight between anti-government elements and the US forces in 2007

Photo Essay

Education under attack: Six portraits

Violence is robbing children across the world of the chance for an education

28/05/2019

Zangora CBE Cluster, Surkhrod District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan – 10 April 2019

Statement

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore gives remarks during the Third International Conference on Safe Schools

As delivered

28/05/2019

Assiya, 10, stands by a pile of metal debris that was once part of the the Bodyalai girls school, which was destroyed during a bomb blast in 2015, Bodyalai village, Kuz Kunar, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan 9 April 2019.

Press release

Afghanistan sees three-fold increase in attacks on schools in one year – UNICEF

As global leaders convene today in Mallorca, Spain, at the third International Conference on Safe Schools, UNICEF calls for an end to the fighting and protection of education

27/05/2019

Hawa,12, stands in Sabo Garawi Primary School in Gwoza, in northeast Nigeria.

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Education under attack

Attacks on schools, students and educators are attacks on children’s right to an education – and on their futures

24/05/2019

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