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68,000 children affected by Nepal earthquake still need urgent assistance - UNICEF

Publication date: February 11, 2024

100 days after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Nepal on 3 November 2023, UNICEF is calling for continued support for 68,000 children and their families in the affected areas and appealing for US$14.7 million in funding to help rebuild the lives of the affected children.

On 3 February 2024 at the Shree Jana Bikash Primary School in Aathbiskot Municipality in Rukum West District in western Nepal, views of a Transitional Learning Centre being constructed on the premises with UNICEF support.

Record numbers of children seek life-saving care as Sudan war drives world’s worst displacement crisis

Publication date: February 9, 2024

Without additional resources and humanitarian access, more children could die due to malnutrition and disease than conflict.

Three hundred days of atrocities against the children of Sudan

Publication date: February 9, 2024

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder – to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

A photograph of children in East Madani, Sudan.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Rafah, Gaza

Publication date: February 8, 2024

UNICEF is urgently calling on the parties to refrain from military escalation in Rafah Governorate in Gaza where over 600,000 children and their families have been displaced – many of them more than once.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Rafah, Gaza

UNICEF strengthens response to DRC's worst floods in 60 years and growing cholera outbreak

Publication date: February 7, 2024

Heavy rainfall leaves more than 2 million people – nearly 60 per cent children – in need of humanitarian assistance

The image captures a Bird's eye-view of houses being flooded.

Two-month-old baby the ninth child reportedly killed in Ukraine this year, as attacks intensify – UNICEF

Publication date: February 7, 2024

Statement by Regina De Dominicis, Regional Director for UNICEF Europe and Central Asia

October 29, 2023, Izium, Kharkivska oblast, Ukraine. A playground, damaged by the shelling.

Children and teachers killed in air strikes on schools in eastern Myanmar

Publication date: February 7, 2024

Statement by Debora Comini, UNICEF Regional Director for East Asia and the Pacific

Children and teachers killed in air strikes on schools in eastern Myanmar

One year after devastating earthquakes hit Türkiye and Syria, consequences continue to reverberate for affected children and families

Publication date: February 6, 2024

Continuing crisis in Syria compounds impact on vulnerable children and families

“I don’t think it’s okay to bring your toys here. There are some children without any toys. They will feel bad, because some of them did not have a chance to take their toys from their homes before it collapsed,” says nine-year-old Shahed on 19 February 2023 at Hussien Bin Ali School, which has been turned into a shelter.

Putting survivors at the forefront of the global movement to end female genital mutilation

Publication date: February 6, 2024

Joint Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell, OHCHR High Commissioner Volker Türk, UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation

Five women face the camera, smiling, whilst interlocking their arms.

Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, We cannot abandon the people of Gaza

Publication date: January 31, 2024

The allegations of involvement of several UNRWA staff in the heinous attacks on Israel on 7 October are horrifying. As the Secretary-General has said, any UN employee involved in acts of terror will be held accountable.

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68,000 children affected by Nepal earthquake still need urgent assistance - UNICEF

Record numbers of children seek life-saving care as Sudan war drives world’s worst displacement crisis

Three hundred days of atrocities against the children of Sudan

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Rafah, Gaza

UNICEF strengthens response to DRC's worst floods in 60 years and growing cholera outbreak

Two-month-old baby the ninth child reportedly killed in Ukraine this year, as attacks intensify – UNICEF

Children and teachers killed in air strikes on schools in eastern Myanmar

One year after devastating earthquakes hit Türkiye and Syria, consequences continue to reverberate for affected children and families

Putting survivors at the forefront of the global movement to end female genital mutilation

Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, We cannot abandon the people of Gaza

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