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UNICEF poll: More than a third of young people in 30 countries report being a victim of online bullying
NEW YORK,, 4 September 2019 –, One in three young people in 30 countries said they have been a victim of online bullying, with one in five reporting having skipped school due to cyberbullying and violence, in a new poll released today by UNICEF and the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) on V...
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20 million children miss out on lifesaving measles, diphtheria and tetanus vaccines in 2018
NEW YORK/GENEVA, 15 July 2019, – 20 million children worldwide – more than 1 in 10 – missed out on lifesaving vaccines such as measles, diphtheria and tetanus in 2018, according to new data from WHO and UNICEF. Globally, since 2010, vaccination coverage with three doses of diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP3) ...
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Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on village attack in Mali
DAKAR/BAMAKO/NEW YORK, 24 March 2019 – , “An attack on a village in Bankass in Mopti, central Mali, has reportedly killed more than 130 people. UNICEF is deeply saddened and outraged that children are among the casualties. “Many of the injured children have been evacuated to health facilities for treatment. UNICEF is on the ground helping provide first aid, medicines and therapeutic…
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Children living in protracted conflicts are three times more likely to die from water-related diseases than from violence: UNICEF
NEW YORK, 22 March 2019 – , Children under the age of 15 living in countries affected by protracted conflict are, on average, almost three times more likely to die from diarrhoeal diseases caused by a lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene than by direct violence,UNICEF said in a new report today. Water Unde...
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Water under Fire - 2019
In times of crisis, children face many dangers: They are forced from home, separated from family, deprived of food, barred from school, and exposed to exploitation and violence. In crises involving armed conflict, children are threatened by injury and death. But bullets and bombs are not always the deadliest threats to a child’s life. In protracted conflicts, children younger than 15 are, on average, nearly three times more likely to die from dia...
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More than 104 million children and young people - 1 in 3 - are out of school in countries affected by war or natural disasters ? UNICEF
NEW YORK, , 19 September 2018 – , 1 in 3 children and young people between 5 and 17 years old living in countries affected by conflict or disaster – 104 million – are not in school, a figure that accounts for more than a third of the global out-of-school population, according to a new UNICEF report . In total, 30...
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Children in Mali bear heaviest brunt of conflict as security situation worsens
, Photos and broll available at: , https://weshare.unicef.org/Package/2AMZIFVREB39 , , BAMAKO/DAKAR/NEW YORK, 29 May 2018, – As the security situation in Mali continues to worsen, children are being denied the opportunity to survive, learn and thrive, UNICEF said today. “The children of Mali are suffering i...
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UNICEF: Without toilets, childhood is even riskier due to malnutrition
NEW YORK, 19 November 2015 , – Lack of access to toilets is endangering millions of the world’s poorest children, UNICEF said today, pointing to emerging evidence of links between inadequate sanitation and malnutrition. Some 2.4 billion people globally do not have toilets and 946 million – roughly 1 in 8 of the world’s population – defecate in the open. Meanwhile, an…, • Pakistan, met the 2015 Millennium Development Goal to halve the proport...