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UNICEF is a United Nations institution that provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.

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A pair of gloved hands tests a patient for mpox

Mpox on the rise in Africa: Are there enough vaccines?

An alarming surge in mpox cases has hit Africa, with more than 32,000 suspected infections recorded.
HealthSeptember 27, 2024
A child receives vaccination against polio at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

Urgent polio vaccine rollout begins in Gaza

After a case was recorded, the UN health agency and its partners have begun vaccinating children in Gaza against polio.
ConflictsSeptember 1, 202401:58 min
A vial of a polio vaccine held in the foreground by an out of focus man in the background

Mass polio vaccination campaign begins in Gaza

DW talked to Sam Rose from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), about the challenging task.
ConflictsAugust 31, 202403:53 min
A young boy holds a maize cob.

Malawi seeks to reduce infant mortality with nutrition

Healthy diets, breastfeeding and sanitation could save lives.
HealthAugust 28, 2024
Protests in Nairobi

AfricaLink News: 02 July 2024

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PoliticsJuly 2, 202403:17 min
A worker unloads UN supplies in the Port-au-Prince airport

Haiti: UNICEF aid container looted amid gang violence

UNICEF said one of their containers carrying essential supplies was looted by gangs at Haiti's main port.
PoliticsMarch 17, 2024
Mother with son in Chad

Childhood death rate falls, threats persist: UN report

Despite progress, the report warns, the UN goal of significantly reducing preventable childhood deaths remains distant.
HealthMarch 13, 2024
A pile of unmarked voting forms at Old St Josephs Gym Hall in Dublin, as Ireland holds referenda on the proposed changes to the wording of the Constitution relating to the areas of family and care. March 8, 2024.

International Women's Day: What's happening around the world

Ireland is voting on constitutional changes over inclusivity and equality on the day that focuses on women's rights.
SocietyMarch 8, 2024
A Palestinian woman holds her injured daughter as they ride on a donkey-drawn cart towards a clinic in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

UNICEF: Gaza faces 'an explosion in preventable child death'

Without sufficient aid, acute malnutrition will ravage 10,000 Gaza children under five years old, warns the UN agency.
ConflictsFebruary 20, 202401:37 min
Sudanese IDPs taking shelter in a school building

Sudan: Malnutrition threatens 700,000 children, UN says

UNICEF warned that tens of thousands of malnourished children could die without enough aid.
ConflictsFebruary 9, 2024
In Purulia, West Bengal, a little girl uses a pan to scoop drinking water from a hole in a sandy river bed

UNICEF Photos of the Year 2023 confronts childhood struggle

Viewers are confronted with the reality of life for girls and boys all over the world and especially in conflict areas.
ArtsFebruary 5, 20248 images
A man carrying water containers

Climate change: Water scarcity worst in South Asia, UN says

The percentage of children affected by water scarcity is the highest in South Asia as per the latest report by UNICEF.
ClimateNovember 13, 2023
Palestinians reload an aid truck with aid that fell from the truck

Gaza: UNICEF renews call for increased humanitarian access

Speaking with DW, UNICEF spokesman Toby Fricker renewed a plea to let "sustained lifesaving supplies" in the Gaza Strip.
ConflictsNovember 4, 202302:41 min
Children pictured in dry paddy fields in Central Java

UNICEF: Extreme weather events displace millions of children

Over 43 million children were uprooted between 2016 and 2021 due to weather disasters fuelled by climate change.
ClimateOctober 6, 2023
School children write in a book

Schools in northern Nigeria ending corporal punishment

Officials in Katsina State say school attendance has improved since a ban on caning and other forms of punishment.
EducationAugust 29, 2023
Nigeria | Menschenhandel

African children at high risk on migrant route to Saudi

Child trafficking is on the rise along Ethiopian borders, UN’s Migration body IOM says
SocietyJuly 28, 202301:38 min
Young Lebanese girls dressed as brides

Number of child marriages declining too slowly, UNICEF says

The world will need 300 years to end child marriages if current trends continue, according to a new UNICEF report.
Human RightsMay 3, 2023
A health worker prepares a malaria vaccination in Yala, Kenya

67 million children missed vaccines during pandemic: UNICEF

The COVID-19 pandemic caused major health care disruptions, with millions of children missing out on life-saving jabs.
HealthApril 20, 2023
A Uruguayan soldier of the United Nations' Stabilization Mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO) is pictured at the Uruguayan base in Goma.

UN Security Council demands disarmament of DR Congo militias

The eastern region of DR Congo is rife with dozens of rebel groups with conflicting goals and interests.
PoliticsMarch 30, 2023
Primary students receive a cup of fresh milk at a Primary School in Dimbulagala, about 200 kilometres north east of Colombo, Sri Lanka

How hunger is keeping Sri Lankan children away from school

Some schools have even requested parents not to send their children without giving any food.
Human RightsJanuary 19, 2023
Two young girls hawking

Cameroon: The plight of child hawkers in Bamenda

Child protection officials in Cameroon say poverty is driving many children onto the streets to engage in hawking.
SocietyDecember 23, 2022
People inspect a damaged playground following an airstrike in Mekele, the capital of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.

UN slams airstrike in Ethiopia that 'hit kindergarten'

UNICEF condemned an air strike in Ethiopia's Tigray that allegedly hit a kindergarten, killing at least two children.
ConflictsAugust 27, 2022
Young girls pull containers of water as they return from a well in northern Kenya

UN: Drought threatens millions of African kids

As many as 40 million children are vulnerable in the Horn of Africa and Sahel, according to aid agency UNICEF.
Nature and EnvironmentAugust 23, 2022
A woman holds the hand of her malnourished child as he receives medical treatment at the malnutrition treating department in Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen.

UNICEF: 8 million kids at risk of dying from malnutrition

Food prices have risen due to the war in Ukraine, climate change driven drought and COVID-19, UNICEF has said.
Food SecurityJune 23, 2022
A Syrian woman holds a child next to ancient Roman era ruins where they have set their tents in Sarmada district, north of Idlib city, Syria, on Nov. 25, 2021

UNICEF: 36.5 million children displaced by end of 2021

UN's children's agency says the amount of children fleeing conflict and other crises is the highest number on record.
ConflictsJune 17, 2022
A woman holds the hand of her malnourished child

UNICEF warns of more child deaths as food costs soar

More are likely to suffer from lethal undernutrition and lack of emergency hunger treatment.
HealthMay 17, 2022
A newly released child soldier looks through a rifle trigger guard.

World Day Against Child Labor: More African children working

After years of decline in child labor, the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many African children into adult jobs.
Human RightsMay 16, 2022
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Teenage girl's campaign against child marriage

Dola Akter Reba, a teenage Bangladeshi girl, has stopped around 700 child marriages.
ScienceMarch 17, 202203:03 min
David Seymour with several cameras hanging around his neck and a cigarette in his hand.

The legacy of photographer David Seymour

With his photos, David Seymour documented the plight of children as victims of war for UNICEF, which now turns 75.
CultureDecember 11, 2021
Two boys in Yemen look at a building destroyed by the fighting

UNICEF: 10,000 children killed or maimed in Yemen's war

The UN children's agency said Yemen had reached a "shameful milestone'' of four children killed or injured every day.
ConflictsOctober 19, 2021
A little boy cuddles with his cuddly toy

UNICEF: 1 in 7 adolescents suffers mental disorders

While the pandemic has had a "significant" impact on adolescents' mental health, it is just the "tip of the iceberg."
HealthOctober 5, 2021
Children filling water in Argentina

No child will escape the impact of climate change: UNICEF

Children from India, Philippines and several African countries were "extremely high-risk," the new UNICEF report found.
Nature and EnvironmentAugust 20, 2021
Afghanistan | Haji Camp | Kandahar | Unicef Mustapha Ben Messaoud talking to displaced people in Haji Camp

UNICEF helping civilians in Afghanistan

How UNICEF tries to help millions of Afghans amid the surging conflict.
ConflictsAugust 12, 202107:43 min
Woman cooking in front of a makeshift tent, refugee camp IDPs refugees conflict Afghanistan

Saving Lives

This week on World in Progress: How Afghan refugees abroad see the worsening situation back home // UNICEF tries to help Afghan children and women harmed by the surging conflict //Peru's medical staff struggles to stem the next wave of Covid 19 // Polyandy: Should women be allowed to have several husbands in South Africa?
ConflictsAugust 11, 202129:59 min
A woman seeks treatment for her malnourished daughter in the town of Abi Adi in Tigray

UN: 100,000 children in Tigray at risk of deadly hunger

The UN has called for access into the conflict-hit Ethiopian region to reach those in need of food and medicine.
CatastropheJuly 30, 2021
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Niger's security crisis

In Niger, children are among those bearing the brunt of insecurity due to jihadist attacks.
SocietyJuly 22, 202102:53 min
Demonstrators set fire to tires, closing some roads to traffic during a protest against economic conditions and high cost of living, in Beirut.

As Lebanon nears collapse, EU sanctions loom

Lebanese locals want the EU to sanction political leaders. Some EU nations are in favor, but experts are not convinced.
PoliticsJuly 2, 2021
A child labor working at a tannery factory in Hazaribagh at Dhaka

Are we losing the fight against child labor?

Child labor has been surging in recent years and the coronavirus pandemic could make the situation worse.
SocietyJune 13, 2021
A Pakistani young laborer busy in their workplace at an iron market in Lahore.

First increase in child labor in 2 decades: UN report

With one in every 10 children working, the world is on the brink of "losing ground in the fight against child labor."
Human RightsJune 10, 2021
Covax vaccine delivery in Montenegro

UNICEF chief urges rich countries to donate shots to COVAX

The UNICEF chief urged G7 to donate shots to bridge the gap in supplies caused by India's move to curb vaccine exports.
HealthMay 17, 2021
Classroom in Bolivia

Coronavirus: UN warns of 'catastrophic education emergency'

UNICEF says schools for more than 168 million children have been shuttered entirely by the coronavirus pandemic.
HealthMarch 3, 2021
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Rehabilitating child soldiers

Deutsche Welle visits a project in the Central African Republic that aims to rehabilitate child soldiers.
February 12, 202103:11 min
Empty classroom in Halle

UNICEF calls for schools to remain open despite COVID

The forced closure of schools across the world has caused a "global learning crisis," UNICEF Germany has told DW.
EducationDecember 8, 2020
Palestinian children wearing protective face masks pose for a picture in a car in Gaza City

Coronavirus: UNICEF warns of 'lost generation' of children

The UN agency said that disruption of health services and soaring poverty pose a major threat to children.
HealthNovember 19, 2020
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Kobe Williams' sand art

Blaise Eyong caught up with Kobe Williams in Douala.
CultureSeptember 24, 202003:03 min
Nigeria Kano Justiz Hisbah

Nigeria: UNICEF criticizes boy's jail sentence for blasphemy

The UN has condemned the sentencing of a minor accused of blasphemy in northeastern Nigeria.
ReligionSeptember 17, 2020
A child seeks shelter from the rain wrapped in a blanket, under the Ayrton Senna Viaduct in Manaus

Coronavirus pushes 150 million more children into poverty

The world's poorest children are getting even poorer, say UNICEF and Save the Children. And things could get even worse.
SocietySeptember 17, 2020
Schoolchildren with satchels on their backs

Children's well-being at risk in rich countries

In some of the world's richest countries, many children are dissatisfied with their lives, a UNICEF study shows.
SocietySeptember 3, 2020
Internet in Entwicklungsländern

Coronavirus digest: Africa reports drastic decline in cases

Africa's top health official says the continent has seen a 20% decrease in new cases over the past week.
HealthAugust 27, 2020
Symbolbild Coronavirus Homeschooling

One-third of global students 'lack remote learning access'

Over 463 million kids whose schools closed due to the pandemic have no way to access any kind of alternative education.
EducationAugust 27, 2020