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On 17 April 2018 in Yambio, South Sudan, [NAMES CHANGED] (right-left) Ganiko, 12 yrs, and Jackson, 13 yrs, stand during a ceremony to release children from the ranks of armed groups and start a process of reintegration. Jackson and Ganiko were best friends when they served together with the armed group.
Press release
10 December 2022
Save the Children, UNICEF and France launch new handbook to strengthen bid to end the recruitment and use of children in conflict
15 years after landmark Paris Conference, tens of thousands of children face threat of recruitment and use in conflict
A young boy writes with chalk on the exterior wall
Report
09 December 2022
Paris Principles
Operational Handbook

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English (PDF, 5 MB)
Yemen. A small child looks at the camera.
Page
04 December 2022
Yemen crisis
8 years of conflict have left more than 11 million children in need of humanitarian assistance
On 27 September 2022 in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Darya Nikolayenko, 14, walks through rubble in School #21, which was destroyed by bombing on 3 March.
Press release
14 November 2022
Top UN, ICRC leaders urge stepped-up global support to protect civilians from explosive weapons in populated areas
Milestone political declaration to open for signature on 18 November
11-year-old Yana recovers at the Lviv hospital with her mother Natalia and twin-brother Yaroslav. She lost two legs in the missile attack at Kramatorsk railway station.
Statement
22 August 2022
War in Ukraine has left nearly 1,000 children killed or injured
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell
Statement
08 August 2022
UNICEF welcomes ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and Israel after three days of violence take heavy toll on children
Statement by Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa
Statement
22 July 2022
Fourteen children killed and injured in northwest Syria this morning
Statement by Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa
Statement
Statement
20 July 2022
The use of explosive weapons in populated areas must stop - UNICEF strongly condemns the killing of three children in Iraq
Statement by UNICEF Representative in Iraq, Ms. Sheema SenGupta
On 18 April 2022 in Ukraine, Dmytro, 12, does homework in a subway station in Kharkiv.
Remarks
12 May 2022
"Children in Ukraine need an end to this war – their futures hang in the balance"
UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Omar Abdi's remarks at the UN Security Council Meeting on the maintenance of peace and security in Ukraine
Syria. A woman holds a child at a school in northeast Syria.
Statement
08 May 2022
Number of Syrian children in need hits record high
Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Adele Khodr