Humanitarian Action and Emergencies

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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

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

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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.

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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.

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

14/06/2019

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Children killed, injured, detained and abused amid escalating violence and unrest in Sudan

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

11/06/2019

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

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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

4 June 2019: A child playing on the roof of El Carmen school in Barrio Union, Petare, in the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela. It is too dangerous to play outside and children head straight home as soon as they leave school. Even a basketball hoop right outside the school was removed to discourage children from hanging out outdoors.

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UNICEF ramps up humanitarian assistance to children in Venezuela, delivers 55 tons of health supplies since January

3.2 million children – or 1 in 3 – need assistance

07/06/2019

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom visit Mozambique

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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom visits children displaced by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique

30/05/2019

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Tens of thousands of children in grave danger as violence escalates in northwest Syria

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

30/05/2019

Un bebé de Venezuela espera a recibir atención médica

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UNICEF and UNFPA join hands to support women, girls and children in Venezuela

28/05/2019

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