South Asia

On 21 November 2019, Hanifa and her husband Nabih and five of their six children sit on the floor of their one-room house in Shayadee camp for internally displaced people near Herat in Afghanistan.

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Preserving hope in Afghanistan

Protecting children in the world’s most lethal conflict

17/12/2019

Afghanistan. A boy stands in an orphanage.

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Child Alert: Preserving hope in Afghanistan

Nine Afghan children are killed or maimed daily in the world’s most lethal conflict

16/12/2019

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Nine Afghan children killed or maimed daily in world’s most lethal warzone

Parties must protect children, end targeting of schools and clinics

16/12/2019

A nurse registers Wunn Yan Kha at the Nation Birth Registration Campaign Naypyidaw

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Despite significant increase in birth registration, a quarter of the world’s children remain ‘invisible’

Proportion of registered births increased almost 20 per cent over past decade, yet 166 million children under-five have never been officially recorded

10/12/2019

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Immediate action needed in South Asia to clean the air for children

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on toxic air in South Asia

06/11/2019

Khatri Khatanga, Jharkhand, India, 11 May 2018.

Press release

More than half of South Asian youth are not on track to have the education and skills necessary for employment in 2030

South Asia has the largest youth labour force in the world with nearly 100,000 young people entering the labour market each day

30/10/2019

Afghanistan. A former police officer holds a gun.

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“I was so scared I would hold my breath”

A young Afghan discusses his time as a police officer – and why he wishes he could be back in school

03/09/2019

Rozina Akta (foreground), 22, teaches level 4 students at the UNICEF-supported Learning Centre in Camp 4 of the Kutupalong-Balukhali mega-camp, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

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Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh want to learn

August 2019 update

15/08/2019

Bangladesh. A child stands under the plastic roof of a shelter in a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar.

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Rohingya children: Beyond survival

Rohingya children and young people want more than survival – they want a hopeful future, too

02/08/2019

On 3 July 2019 in Bangladesh, a young boy navigates a river swollen from days of monsoon rain. He’s collecting plastic bottles washed into the river by floods. He sells the plastic to recyclers and uses the money to help his family to purchase vegetables and fish, to complement their diet of rice and dahl.

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Monsoon rains bring severe flooding and landslides across South Asia, affecting more than five million children

UNICEF scaling up emergency response to support children and families affected

18/07/2019

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