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Climate change is an urgent threat to pregnant women and children

Publication date: November 21, 2023

Pregnant women, babies and children face extreme health risks from climate catastrophes that warrant urgent attention, according to a Call for Action released today by United Nations (UN) agencies ahead of the global Conference of the Parties (COP28) negotiations on climate change in Dubai.

A mother works in the fields with her six-month baby in South Punjab Province.

WORLD CHILDREN'S DAY 2023: "CHILDREN LIVE IN A WORLD THAT IS INCREASINGLY HOSTILE TO THEIR RIGHTS"

Publication date: November 20, 2023

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell

“Children live in a world that is increasingly hostile to their rights”

At least 5 million children at the brink in Darfur as unchecked conflict worsens

Publication date: November 20, 2023

In the last seven months of fighting in Sudan, reported cases of children killed and injured in Darfur spiked 450 per cent when compared to all of 2022.

On 17 June 2023, Sudanese refugee Fatna Ibrahim Daoud, 35, a mother of 7, is sheltering in the shade in Adre, the Chadian city bordering Sudan. She fled the fighting with her 7-year-old daughter Isra.

31 premature babies at imminent risk of death evacuated from Al-Shifa hospital

Publication date: November 19, 2023

Today, 31 babies clinging to life were rescued from Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza and relocated to the south of the Strip.

Gaza’s children running out of time: Water shortages spark disease alarm

Youth activists from across Canada to gather in Ottawa for National Child Day

Publication date: November 16, 2023

UNICEF Canada Ambassador Simu Liu will participate in conversations with young changemakers

Youth activists from across Canada to gather in Ottawa for National Child Day

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on her visit to Gaza

Publication date: November 15, 2023

Today I visited the Gaza Strip to meet with children, their families and UNICEF staff. What I saw and heard was devastating.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on her visit to Gaza

1 in 3 children exposed to severe water scarcity – UNICEF

Publication date: November 13, 2023

The climate changed world – with dwindling water supply and inadequate water services – is also changing children, altering their mental and physical health, new report warns

On 10 May 2022 in the internally displaced person (IDP) site of Guyah, Afar Region, Ethiopia, 13-year-old Keria fetches water from a UNICEF supported water point.

Lives of one million children ‘hanging by a thread,’ as child health services almost collapse across the Gaza Strip

Publication date: November 10, 2023

The near total breakdown and attacks on medical and healthcare services across Gaza, in particular the northern areas, threatens the lives of every child in the Strip.

Lives of one million children ‘hanging by a thread,’ as child health services almost collapse across the Gaza Strip

Children account for half of dead and injured in Nepal earthquake - UNICEF

Publication date: November 7, 2023

UNICEF and partners step up support to provide urgent life-saving assistance for over 200,000 people – including 80,000 children – in dire need of help

On 6 November 2023, in Aathbiskot Municipality in Rukum West District – in one of the communities most affected by the 6.4 magnitude quake that hit western Nepal on 3 November – a family of four receive relief supplies distributed by UNICEF in coordination with local authorities.

Statement by UNICEF on over 200 days of war leaving a generation of children in Sudan on the brink

Publication date: November 6, 2023

UNICEF calls for redoubled commitment to Sudan, now the largest child displacement crisis in the world