© UNICEF/UN065873/Alzekri On 12 May 2017 at the Sab’een Hospital in Sana’a, Yemen, patients suffering from severe diarrhoea or cholera receive treatment. NEW YORK/SANA’A/Hong Kong, 31 May 2017 – In the past 72 hours, the number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has risen by 10,000 to a total of 65,300. Over 1,000 children suffering […]
© UNICEF/UN057349/Madhok Beds are lined up in a hallway due to overcrowding in the pediatric ward at Al-Thawra Hospital, Sana’a, Yemen, Monday 20 March 2017. AMMAN/ HONG KONG, 30 May 2017– “As the UN Security Council yet again holds consultations on the situation in Yemen, UNICEF is reporting an unprecedented increase in the number of […]
© UNICEF/UN057343/Al-Karim A boy suffering from severe acute malnutrition acute at Al-Thawra Hospital, Hodeidah, Yemen, Monday 6 March 2017. Violence disrupting children’s access to health services, safe water and sanitation AMMAN/ HONG KONG, 24 May 2017 – Violence and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa have put in jeopardy the health of 24 […]
© UNICEF A nurse from the Kabea Kamwanga hospital treats a malnourished child with medical supplies provided by UNICEF, in May 2017 KINSHASA/ DAKAR/ GENEVA/ NEW YORK/ HONG KONG, 24 May 2017– The crisis in Greater Kasai in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has severely disrupted life-saving interventions for children in recent months, […]
© UNICEF/Brown Min Thiya, 10, was injured two years ago in an accident while he and his friends were playing with unexploded ordnance in in Kayin State, Myanmar. New report calls for improved humanitarian access to estimated 2.2 million children affected by violence, and end to child rights violations GENEVA/ NEW YORK/ HONG KONG, 23 […]
© UNICEF Yemen/2017/Madhok Um Taha sits with her four children who are suffering from cholera. She has been camping on the floor of the diarrhoea treatment centre in the heart of Sana’a city for the past four days. By Rajat Madhok SANA’A, Yemen/ HONG KONG, 22 May 2017 – For Um Taha and four of […]
© UNICEF/UN064320/Khuzaie Hamed, 13, walks up to the blackboard at a school in Fallujah. He lost his leg in a mortar attack in 2015. His father and cousin died in that attack. He returned to school in 2016. BAGHDAD/ HONG KONG, 21 May, 2017 – The future of Iraq, its economic security and prosperity depends […]
© UNICEF/UNI197652/Gilbertson VII Photo Three children look out of a window on a train at a reception centre for refugees and migrants in Gevgelija, in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, in 2015 Ahead of G7, UNICEF urges world leaders to adopt six-point action agenda to keep refugee and migrant children safe NEW YORK/ HONG […]
© UNICEF/Gilbertson Mary, 18, from Benin City in Nigeria, cries on a dormitory bed in the safe house where she now lives, on the outskirts of Taormina in Sicily. Her name is Mary*. She’s from Benin City in Nigeria. When she was seventeen, Mary tried to escape a life with no prospects to work in […]
© UNICEF/UN063439/Schermbrucker Mentor mothers support and empower pregnant women in protecting their babies from HIV infection and staying healthy. It was a long walk home for Maria on that day in Malawi in February 2011. She had been trying for two years to become pregnant, and the nurse at the clinic had just confirmed that […]