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UNICEF appeals for $3.9 billion in emergency assistance for 41 million children affected by conflict or disaster
GENEVA/NEW YORK, 29 January 2019 –, Millions of children living in countries affected by conflict and disaster lack access to vital child protection services, putting their safety, well-being and futures at risk, UNICEF warned today as it appealed for $3.9 billion to support its work for children in humanitarian c...
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Syrian children seeking safety and shelter freeze to death while crossing from Syria to Lebanon
, AMMAN, 20 January 2018, - “It is tragic that at least 12 Syrians including two children died in Eastern Lebanon near the Masna’ border crossing with Syria. “Syrian people continue to risk their lives and the lives of their children in a desperate search for safety and shelter. “Our thoughts are with the famili...
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Despite progress, 180 million children face bleaker prospects than their parents
NEW YORK, 20 November 2017 –, Despite global progress, 1 in 12 children worldwide live in countries where their prospects today are worse than those of their parents, according to a UNICEF analysis conducted for World Children’s Day. According to the analysis, 180 million children live in 37 countries where they...
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Severe funding gaps threaten assistance to 9 million children in Syria and neighbouring countries
, AMMAN, 16 June 2017, - UNICEF-supported programmes for over 9 million children inside Syria and neighbouring countries are on the verge of being cut off due to a critical funding shortage. “This is the most severe funding gap UNICEF has had since we started responding to the Syria crisis - one of the largest h...
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Al-Azhar AlSharief and the Coptic Church provide their perspective on 11 types of violence against children including Female Genital Mutilation, early marriage and child recruitment
CAIRO, 9 May 2016, - Al-Azhar Al-Sahrief, Al-Azhar University and the Coptic Orthodox Church, in cooperation with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), today launched three publications by religious scholars on Islamic and Christian perspectives on protecting children from violence and harmful practices. Religious leaders from Egypt’s two main faiths united…, Note to the Editors, Three publications are launched today. 1) “The Islamic persp...
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New statistical report on female genital mutilation shows harmful practice is a global concern - UNICEF
NEW YORK, 5 February 2016, – At least 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation in 30 countries, according to a new statistical report published ahead of the United Nations’ International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A Global Concern notes that half ofthe girls and women who…, Download broadcast quality photos and video here: , http://weshare.uni...
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New global data expose acute prevalence of violence against children: UNICEF
NEW YORK, 4 September 2014, –The largest-ever compilation of data on violence against children shows the staggering extent of physical, sexual and emotional abuse -- and reveals the attitudes that perpetuate and justify violence,keeping it ‘hidden in plain sight’ in every country and community in the world. “These are uncomfortable facts — no government or parent will want…, Sexual violence, : Around 120 million girls under the age of 20 worldwi...
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Polio outbreak response under way to protect children in five highest-risk countries
AMMAN/CAIRO, 2 March 2014, – Children in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Syria will be the first of nearly 10 million children across the Middle East to receive a dose of polio vaccine this month. Mass vaccination campaigns were launched in the four countries today, to be followed by a similar campaign in Lebanon from 9 March. “We need to get two drops of polio vaccine into the…