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Global childhood immunization coverage inches forward despite conflict and hesitancy – UNICEF, WHO

Publication date: July 15, 2026

Zero-dose children fell by nearly 750,000 in the past year, but drop-out numbers high and stagnant, increasing risk of disease outbreaks.

A child looks at the camera with a shy smile, a health care worker in a mask and medical gloves gives him a shot in the arm. The setting looks like a clinic.

UNICEF calls for urgent action as peak wasting season nears and child food and nutrition insecurity puts 3.7 million children in Afghanistan at heightened risk of malnutrition

Publication date: July 13, 2026

New analysis highlights the need to protect young children’s diets, prioritise children under two, and strengthen multisectoral services to prevent malnutrition.

A health worker feeds a child ready-to-eat therepeutic food while his mother holds him

At least 330 children killed or injured in Sudan during first six months of 2026 as conflict takes escalating toll

Publication date: July 6, 2026

Since May 2026, drone strikes and other attacks have reportedly resulted in more than 35 child casualties in the state, including at least 18 children killed and more than 17 injured.

Joint statement by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and UNICEF on the plight of migrant children in South Africa

Publication date: June 30, 2026

The Committee on the Rights of the Child and UNICEF express their deep concern regarding the plight of migrant children in South Africa and the challenges they face while moving across the African continent.

UNICEF aid shipment lands in Venezuela following devastating earthquakes

Publication date: June 30, 2026

This 47-metric-ton shipment of health, water and education supplies, along with a regional one that arrived from Panama on June 28, will support an estimated number of more than 100,000 children and families over a period of three months. More aid to follow in the coming days.

UNICEF aid bound for Venezuela is loaded onto a cargo plane.

Children are adopting AI technologies more than three times faster than adults

Publication date: June 30, 2026

Statement by UNICEF on children’s use of Artificial Intelligence ahead of the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance

UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Hannan Sulieman's remarks at the United Nations Security Council Briefing on the humanitarian situation in Sudan

Publication date: June 30, 2026

"As fighting intensifies in and around Al Obeid, an estimated 500,000 civilians are at risk. Children are at immediate and growing danger of being killed, injured, displaced, or exposed to other grave violations.

UNICEF: 680,000 children estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance after Venezuela earthquakes

Publication date: June 28, 2026

First UNICEF aid flight arrives in Venezuela with medical supplies, water and sanitation items and tents

Thousands of children at risk after powerful earthquakes strike Venezuela - UNICEF

Publication date: June 25, 2026

An estimated 3.9 million children live in the areas affected by the powerful 7.5 and 7.2 magnitude earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24, putting thousands of children and families at risk.

UNICEF Executive Catherine Russell's remarks at the United Nations Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict

Publication date: June 24, 2026

"A school … a hospital ... a water point ... should never be a battlefield. And no child should have to wonder whether entering a classroom or health facility might cost her life."

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Global childhood immunization coverage inches forward despite conflict and hesitancy – UNICEF, WHO

UNICEF calls for urgent action as peak wasting season nears and child food and nutrition insecurity puts 3.7 million children in Afghanistan at heightened risk of malnutrition

At least 330 children killed or injured in Sudan during first six months of 2026 as conflict takes escalating toll

Joint statement by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and UNICEF on the plight of migrant children in South Africa

UNICEF aid shipment lands in Venezuela following devastating earthquakes

Children are adopting AI technologies more than three times faster than adults

UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Hannan Sulieman's remarks at the United Nations Security Council Briefing on the humanitarian situation in Sudan

UNICEF: 680,000 children estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance after Venezuela earthquakes

Thousands of children at risk after powerful earthquakes strike Venezuela - UNICEF

UNICEF Executive Catherine Russell's remarks at the United Nations Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict

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