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Violence against children

Four-year-old Mirjeta (name changed) holds her toys while getting ready to go out with her mother in Tirana, Albania, in June 2018. Mirjeta’s mother was physically and mentally abused by her husband, who became violent after discovering that she was pregnant with a girl.
Programme
03/31/2020
Violence against children
No violence against children is justifiable. All violence against children is preventable.
Statement
03/04/2021
UNICEF condemns killings and arbitrary detentions of children by security forces during ongoing crisis in Myanmar
At least five children reportedly killed, four severely wounded and 500 arbitrarily detained since protests began last month
Statement
02/26/2021
Statement by Peter Hawkins, UNICEF Nigeria Representative, on school attack in Zamfara State, north-west Nigeria
Statement
02/22/2021
UNICEF condemns violence in Mandalay reportedly resulting in the death of a child
5-year-old Havugimana waits to be screened for malnutrition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Press release
02/19/2021
Militia violence threatens 3 million displaced children in Democratic Republic of Congo: UNICEF
Global indifference putting a generation of children at risk
Document
02/07/2021
Gender Dimensions of Violence Against Children and Adolescents
Marawi. A girl stands next to her family’s temporary home in a tented evacuation site.
Campaign
12/02/2020
Children Under Attack
Children are coming under attack in conflicts across the world. We can’t accept this as a ‘new normal’
Statement
11/19/2020
UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore's remarks at Children & Armed Conflict Luncheon
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Press release
11/18/2020
UNICEF calls for averting a lost generation as COVID-19 threatens to cause irreversible harm to children’s education, nutrition and well-being
Children and adolescents account for 1 in 9 of reported COVID-19 infections, according to new analysis released ahead of World Children’s Day
Document
09/23/2020
Preventing and Responding to Violence Against Children and Adolescents: Theory of Change