© UNICEF/Romenzi An Iraqi child walks through the rubble of a building which was destroyed in an airstrike, as fighting between Iraqi security forces and ISIS continues, western Mosul, Iraq, March 2017 BAGHDAD/NEW YORK/HONG KONG, 22 June 2017 – Three years since the intensification of violence in Iraq, children are trapped in an endless cycle […]
© UNICEF/UN062341/Zammit A newborn baby sleeping at a hospital partially supported by UNICEF’s ECD programme. Last year, close to one million babies died on their first day of life, and 2.7 million during their first 28 days. Almost half of all under-five deaths took place during this newborn period. And 2.6 million babies were stillborn. […]
Recently arrived refugees aboard a truck to be taken to a new settlement at Imvepi Reception Center in Arua district of Uganda 28 February, 2017 Uganda now Africa’s top refugee-hosting country as numbers more than double in past year. KAMPALA/NAIROBI/NEW YORK/HONG KONG, 20 June 2017 – As more than 1,000 children continue to flee South […]
© UNICEF/Hatcher-Moore Jane Tiko feeds a therapeutic formula to her nine-month-old son Simon Ladok in the malnutrition ward in the Al-Sabbah children’s hospital in Juba, South Sudan More than 6 million people now facing hunger driven largely by conflict ROME/JUBA, South Sudan/HONG KONG, 21 June 2017 – Famine has eased in South Sudan after a significant […]
© UNICEF/Ohanesian Erick Ogutu, 29, runs to class with his daughter Octaviah Achieng, 2, at the Little Rock Early Childhood Development Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. Ending his speech in Myanmar to celebrate the growing cooperation between Sweden and Myanmar at the occasion of the National Day of Sweden, H.E. Staffan Herrström, Ambassador to Thailand, Lao […]
© UNICEF/UN065270/Ose Super Dads, a new UNICEF initiative launched on 6 June 2017 celebrates fathers around the world. In June 2017, UNICEF launched the Super Dads initiative to highlight the fundamental role that fathers play in their children’s early development. Children’s formative years are critical for their cognitive, social, emotional and physical development. What children […]
© UNICEF/UN066157/Rostkowski May 17, 2017. Mouhamed Seif Mahmoud School, Sakhoor neighborhood in the east part of Aleppo. A UNICEF supported-school is an alternative space for learning. AMMAN/BRUSSELS/NEW YORK/HONG KONG, 20 June 2017 – On World Refugee Day, the European Union has renewed its commitment to a generation of children affected by the war in Syria. […]
© UNICEF/UN060490/Sokhin Muzoon Almellehan visits a classroom at Yakoua school in Bol, Lake Region, Chad, Friday 21 April 2017. There are 500 displaced children attending the school of 800 students and only eight teachers, causing strain on an already weak education system. Muzoon became an advocate for girls’ education after fleeing Syria in 2013 NEW […]
© UNICEF/UN059873/Zar Mon In Myanmar, landmines and unexploded ordnance present a daily risk of injury or death for children Nine of Myanmar’s 14 States and Regions are contaminated with landmines and explosive remnants of war both from ongoing and past conflicts. The country has some of the highest mine accident rates in the world. On average, […]
© UNICEF/UN059740/Ose Amos Lomerigorok, 25, (right) and his pregnant wife Paulina Chepsera, 20, sit in their home in a remote village accessible only by foot in the Amudat district, Karamoja region, eastern Uganda, Wednesday 15 March 2017. NEW YORK/HONG KONG, 18 June 2017 – Stars from the world of entertainment and sport including Mahershala Ali, […]