© UNICEF/UN052608/Romenzi Migrants detained behind bars at a detention centre in Libya. When the photo was taken on 31 January 2017, the population consisted of 27 women (4 of whom were pregnant), one 11-month old child, a 4-year-old, and 1,352 males – of which 250 were under 16. UNICEF calls for implementation of six-point agenda […]
© UNICEF/UN053610/Tremeau Orlando Bloom speaks with Eta, 12, Bosso, Niger, 19 February 2017. Two years ago Boko Haram forced into her family home and lined them up in the courtyard, looking for her father and threatening to kill everyone if they didn’t give him up. They fled. 1.3 million children displaced by violence across region […]
Hong Kong, 22 February 2017 ── War and a collapsing economy have led to an unprecedented food shortage in South Sudan. Over 1.1 million children are acutely malnourished now. Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF(UNICEF HK) launched an emergency appeal today to call for support to prevent children from dying of hunger. 100 per cent of […]
© UNICEF/UN041802/Vittozzi Children receive peer-to-peer education as part of the psychosocial support provided by UNICEF, the Nigerian government and other partners to vulnerable, unaccompanied and separated children impacted by the crisis in northeast Nigeria. Mustapha loves meeting his friends for a quick game of soccer before class starts in the camp he now calls home. […]
NEW YORK/ HONG KONG, 22 February 2017 – “One year ago today, our respected former UNICEF colleague, Baquer Namazi, was imprisoned in Iran. Our concerns for his health and wellbeing have grown deeper with each passing day. “Mr. Namazi, 80 years old, is increasingly frail as a result of his imprisonment. He should be returned […]
© UNICEF/UNI201541/Rich NEW YORK/ DAKAR/ NAIROBI/ AMMAN/ HONG KONG, 21 February 2017 – Almost 1.4 million children are at imminent risk of death from severe acute malnutrition this year, as famine looms in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, UNICEF said today. “Time is running out for more than a million children,” said UNICEF Executive […]
© UNICEF/UN053447/Gonzalez Farran UN agencies warn that almost 5 million people urgently need food, agriculture and nutrition assistance 20 February 2017, Juba/ HONG KONG – War and a collapsing economy have left some 100,000 people facing starvation in parts of South Sudan where famine was declared today, three UN agencies warned. A further 1 million […]
© UNICEF/UN07227/Al Saleh, WFP Nearly 50 million children at risk as conflict and disaster engulf 48 countries. From Syria to Yemen and Iraq, from South Sudan to Nigeria, children are affected by relentless conflicts and displacement crises, as well as devastation wrought by natural disasters. To reach those in greatest need, HK$25.7 billion (US$3.3 billion) […]
NEW YORK/ HONG KONG, 8 February 2017 – “We are saddened and outraged by the cruel killings today of six workers for the International Committee of the Red Cross in northern Afghanistan, and two workers for the Syrian Arab Red Crescent in Aleppo, Syria. “Our deepest sympathy is with the families of those who lost […]
© UNICEF/Syrian Arab Republic 2016/Souleiman Siba (left), 11, should be in Grade 5 and Ruba (right), 9, in Grade 3. They were both placed in Grade 1 due to the years of education they had lost. By Masoud Hasen The nearly six-year-long Syrian conflict has forced 1.75 million children and youth out of school, and […]