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Famine confirmed in Sudan’s North Darfur, confirming UN agencies worst fears

Publication date: August 1, 2024

Situation in Zamzam camp - home to more than 400,000 displaced people – has passed famine thresholds, according to Famine Review Committee

A girl receives ready-to-use therapeutic food in a stabilisation center in El Fasher, North Darfur. Unfortunately, the nutrition crisis is Sudan is worsening with a record number of children admitted to this center where children suffering from severe acute malnutrition with medical complications are treated.

On World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF and WHO call for equal access to breastfeeding support

Publication date: August 1, 2024

Statement by Catherine Russell (UNICEF Executive Director) and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (WHO Director General)

Irina from Moldova is breastfeeding her three-week-old daughter, firmly believing that breastfeeding is the best way to nourish a child during the first months of life.

Wildfires raging across Canada can put children's health in danger, UNICEF warns

Publication date: July 30, 2024

UNICEF Canada brings together experts to highlight the unique impacts of wildfires on children

Wildfires raging across Canada can put children’s health in danger, UNICEF warns

Over 6 million children at risk as deadly floods lash across South Asia

Publication date: July 29, 2024

Statement by Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia, urges countries to safeguard children as torrential rain predicted in coming weeks

A group of people, including women and children, walk with water containers on their heads along a narrow, muddy path flanked by water in a rural setting.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the situation in the Gaza Strip

Publication date: July 24, 2024

With each passing week, families face new horrors in the Gaza Strip. The devastating attacks on schools and internally displaced sites continue, reportedly killing hundreds more Palestinians, many of them women and children, and leaving already overwhelmed hospitals buckling under the strain.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the situation in the Gaza Strip

Hunger numbers stubbornly high for three consecutive years as global crises deepen: UN report

Publication date: July 24, 2024

1 in 11 people worldwide faced hunger in 2023, 1 in 5 in Africa

Israa eats a piece of bread in Khan Younis city.

Child casualties in the West Bank skyrocket in the past nine months – UNICEF

Publication date: July 22, 2024

On average, one Palestinian child was killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, every two days since October 2023, a nearly two-and-a-half-fold increase from the previous nine months

Child casualties in the West Bank skyrocket in the past nine months

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell following her trip to Vanuatu and Fiji

Publication date: July 19, 2024

It is time for decision-makers to fully commit to action and for child-sensitive climate finance to be radically increased. Governments can leave the best possible legacy by investing in the bold, child-focused climate action that children and future generations so desperately need.

The Gambia’s decision to uphold ban on FGM critical win for girls’ and women’s rights

Publication date: July 15, 2024

Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director, Catherine Russell, UNFPA Executive Director, Natalia Kanem, WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, UN Women Executive Director, Sima Bahous, and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk

The Gambia’s decision to uphold ban on FGM critical win for girls’ and women’s rights

Global childhood immunization levels stalled in 2023 leaving many without life-saving protection