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On 18 April 2022 in Ukraine, Dmytro, 12, does homework in a subway station in Kharkiv.

"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.

Number of Syrian children in need hits record high

Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Adele Khodr

Ukraine. A mother and her son carry clean water home in plastic containers.

1.4 million people without running water across war-affected eastern Ukraine

Damages to the water network and power cuts left an additional 4.6 million people across Ukraine without adequate access to safe water.

Statement by UNICEF Ukraine Representative Murat Sahin on the attack on Kramatorsk train station

Moldova. Families stand in line at the border crossing between Ukraine and Moldova.

Two million refugee children flee war in Ukraine in search of safety across borders

With an additional 2.5 million children displaced within country, 60 per cent of children now forced from their homes as attacks on urban areas continue

FILE PHOTO: A refugee family with 11 children entered Romania at the Isaccea border crossing. They are from Ismail, nearby Odessa, and they left the country imediately, by bus, and they took the ferrry to arrive in Romania.

Unaccompanied and separated children fleeing escalating conflict in Ukraine must be protected

Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi

Ukraine. A girl wrapped in a blanket sits by the road near the Ukraine border.

One week into conflict in Ukraine, half a million children become refugees

UNICEF warns of mounting risks for children as conflict intensifies in populated areas

03 February 2022

At least six children killed in northwest Syria overnight

Statement by Bertrand Bainvel, acting UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa

Ibrahim wears his artificial limbs in the prosthetic centre in Aden, Yemen on 14 October 2021.

31 December 2021

Grave violations of children’s rights in conflict on the rise around the world, warns UNICEF

Less than half of parties to conflict globally have committed to protect children

A young child at the Hospital Immaculee Conception in Les Cayes, Haiti, on 26 May 2021.

Haiti: Violence and pandemic leave one in three children in need of humanitarian assistance