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More than 16,000 children are displaced following Libya floods - UNICEF

Many more remain at risk and are in need of urgent access to essential services

Young children are walking around in the neighborhood in boots despite the hot weather because they still worry about the floods and drowning, they have been displaced to a whole new city that they are still trying to familiarize themselves with.

Children and families at risk after 6.4-magnitude earthquake hits western Nepal

Statement attributable to Alice Akunga, UNICEF Representative to Nepal

On 4 Nov 2023, UNICEF staff at the field office in Nepalgunj in Banke District load relief supplies onto a truck headed for Jajarkot District.

Children account for half of dead and injured in Nepal earthquake - UNICEF

UNICEF and partners step up support to provide urgent life-saving assistance for over 200,000 people – including 80,000 children – in dire need of help

On 6 November 2023, in Aathbiskot Municipality in Rukum West District – in one of the communities most affected by the 6.4 magnitude quake that hit western Nepal on 3 November – a family of four receive relief supplies distributed by UNICEF in coordination with local authorities.

Lives of one million children ‘hanging by a thread,’ as child health services almost collapse across the Gaza Strip

The near total breakdown and attacks on medical and healthcare services across Gaza, in particular the northern areas, threatens the lives of every child in the Strip.

1 in 3 children exposed to severe water scarcity – UNICEF

The climate changed world – with dwindling water supply and inadequate water services – is also changing children, altering their mental and physical health, new report warns

On 10 May 2022 in the internally displaced person (IDP) site of Guyah, Afar Region, Ethiopia, 13-year-old Keria fetches water from a UNICEF supported water point.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on her visit to Gaza

Today I visited the Gaza Strip to meet with children, their families and UNICEF staff. What I saw and heard was devastating.

Youth activists from across Canada to gather in Ottawa for National Child Day

UNICEF Canada Ambassador Simu Liu will participate in conversations with young changemakers

WORLD CHILDREN'S DAY 2023: "CHILDREN LIVE IN A WORLD THAT IS INCREASINGLY HOSTILE TO THEIR RIGHTS"

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell

At least 5 million children at the brink in Darfur as unchecked conflict worsens

In the last seven months of fighting in Sudan, reported cases of children killed and injured in Darfur spiked 450 per cent when compared to all of 2022.

On 17 June 2023, Sudanese refugee Fatna Ibrahim Daoud, 35, a mother of 7, is sheltering in the shade in Adre, the Chadian city bordering Sudan. She fled the fighting with her 7-year-old daughter Isra.

31 premature babies at imminent risk of death evacuated from Al-Shifa hospital

Today, 31 babies clinging to life were rescued from Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza and relocated to the south of the Strip.