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16 children and 27 adults dead off the coast of Djibouti after migrant boat capsizes

Update on UNICEF’s response for Ethiopian refugees in Sudan and host communities

Geneva Palais briefing note on the situation of Ethiopian children fleeing into Sudan and UNICEF’s response

2.3 million children in Tigray region of Ethiopia need humanitarian assistance, as thousands flee across border into Sudan

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

Statement by Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, to UNHCR Executive Committee

On September 9, 2020 a girl stands amid rubbles in the burnt camp of Moria on the island of Lesvos after a major fire broke out. Thousands of asylum seekers on the Greek island of Lesvos fled for their lives as a huge fire ripped through the camp of Moria, the country's largest migrant facility. Over 12,000 men, women and children ran in panic out of containers and tents and into adjoining olive groves and fields as the fire destroyed most of the overcrowded, squalid camp.

Geneva Palais briefing note on situation for children affected by fire at Moria camp in Lesvos, and UNICEF response

UNICEF uses online gaming to showcase potential, skills and creativity of refugee and migrant children

UNICEF statement on children affected by the Moria camp fire on Lesvos Island, Greece

A young Venezuelan woman sits fully covered in a blanket, waiting to continue her journey at Rumichaca, on the border of Ecuador and Colombia, in 2018.

Family separation during crisis

All children have the right to grow up safe with their parents, caregivers or loved ones

COVID-19: Dangers mount for migrant children forcibly returned to northern Central America and Mexico during pandemic

Virus fears compound existing discrimination and violence for returned migrant children, leaving them doubly at risk, UNICEF warns