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Ukraine two years: Children in frontline areas forced to spend up to 5,000 hours - equivalent to nearly 7 months - sheltering underground

Publication date: February 23, 2024

Three-quarters of children and young people aged 14 to 34 recently reported needing emotional or psychological support

Ukraine two years: Children in frontline areas forced to spend up to 5,000 hours – equivalent to nearly 7 months - sheltering underground

Ukraine - Frontline children: battling mental trauma, underground

Publication date: February 23, 2024

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder – to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

Ukraine - Frontline children: battling mental trauma, underground

Children’s lives threatened by rising malnutrition in the Gaza Strip

Publication date: February 19, 2024

The situation is especially serious in the north, where one in six children under the age of two is acutely malnourished

Children’s lives threatened by rising malnutrition in the Gaza Strip

68,000 children affected by Nepal earthquake still need urgent assistance - UNICEF

Publication date: February 11, 2024

100 days after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Nepal on 3 November 2023, UNICEF is calling for continued support for 68,000 children and their families in the affected areas and appealing for US$14.7 million in funding to help rebuild the lives of the affected children.

On 3 February 2024 at the Shree Jana Bikash Primary School in Aathbiskot Municipality in Rukum West District in western Nepal, views of a Transitional Learning Centre being constructed on the premises with UNICEF support.

Record numbers of children seek life-saving care as Sudan war drives world’s worst displacement crisis

Publication date: February 9, 2024

Without additional resources and humanitarian access, more children could die due to malnutrition and disease than conflict.

Three hundred days of atrocities against the children of Sudan

Publication date: February 9, 2024

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder – to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

A photograph of children in East Madani, Sudan.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Rafah, Gaza

Publication date: February 8, 2024

UNICEF is urgently calling on the parties to refrain from military escalation in Rafah Governorate in Gaza where over 600,000 children and their families have been displaced – many of them more than once.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Rafah, Gaza

Children and teachers killed in air strikes on schools in eastern Myanmar

Publication date: February 7, 2024

Statement by Debora Comini, UNICEF Regional Director for East Asia and the Pacific

Children and teachers killed in air strikes on schools in eastern Myanmar

UNICEF strengthens response to DRC's worst floods in 60 years and growing cholera outbreak

Publication date: February 7, 2024

Heavy rainfall leaves more than 2 million people – nearly 60 per cent children – in need of humanitarian assistance

The image captures a Bird's eye-view of houses being flooded.

Two-month-old baby the ninth child reportedly killed in Ukraine this year, as attacks intensify – UNICEF

Publication date: February 7, 2024

Statement by Regina De Dominicis, Regional Director for UNICEF Europe and Central Asia

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Ukraine two years: Children in frontline areas forced to spend up to 5,000 hours - equivalent to nearly 7 months - sheltering underground

Ukraine - Frontline children: battling mental trauma, underground

Children’s lives threatened by rising malnutrition in the Gaza Strip

68,000 children affected by Nepal earthquake still need urgent assistance - UNICEF

Record numbers of children seek life-saving care as Sudan war drives world’s worst displacement crisis

Three hundred days of atrocities against the children of Sudan

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Rafah, Gaza

Children and teachers killed in air strikes on schools in eastern Myanmar

UNICEF strengthens response to DRC's worst floods in 60 years and growing cholera outbreak

Two-month-old baby the ninth child reportedly killed in Ukraine this year, as attacks intensify – UNICEF

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