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FILE PHOTO: On 15 May 2019, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore addresses the United Nations Security Council.

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore's remarks at the UN Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict

This is a summary of what was said by Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's Security Council Open Debate at the United Nations in New York. Checked against delivery.

UNICEF condemns killing of five children in Ituri Province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Burkina Faso. Children hide under desks.

Nearly 5 million children will need humanitarian assistance in central Sahel this year as violence surges

Number is projected to rise as attacks against children increase in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger

“No child should be buried in their school uniform”

Statement by Abdullah Fadil, UNICEF Representative in Sudan

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

Rebuilding a young life in Nigeria

A teenage girl recalls the horrors of being abducted – and a community steps up to help survivors of gender-based violence

اليمن. صبي ينتظر أن يتم تلقيحه ضد الكوليرا في عدن، اليمن.

Yemen conflict

Yemen is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world – and children are being robbed of their futures

Two children killed in the Gaza Strip

Statement attributable to Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa

Silhouettes of children in front of a sunset, South Sudan

Former child soldier reunited with family in South Sudan

19,000 children have been recruited into armed forces since the start of the conflict

Children gather at the school in Ndenga village, 30 kilometres from Kaga Bandoro, Central African Republic.

Violence in Central African Republic

UNICEF calls for urgent protection of children forced to flee their homes

A girl sits in a classroom at school in Marinka, Ukraine, November 2017.

School children caught in the crossfire

More than four years of conflict in eastern Ukraine have taken a devastating toll on the education system