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BUDGET 2023: UNICEF CANADA STATEMENT

Publication date: March 29, 2023

On March 28, 2023, the Government of Canada tabled Budget 2023. UNICEF Canada believes that bold leadership is required from the federal government to address issues that affect children and youth in Canada and around the world. 

UNICEF CANADA BUDGET 2023 STATEMENT

Conflict in eastern DRC is having a devastating impact on children’s education

Publication date: March 29, 2023

Insecurity has disrupted the education of three-quarters of a million children in 2022 and early 2023, according to the latest UNICEF data.

Ecole primaire Philéo est situé à Goma ; elle est constituée de 642 élèves dont 358 filles et 284 garçons. Tous sont déplacés.

8 years of crushing conflict in Yemen leave more than 11 million children in need of humanitarian assistance

Publication date: March 24, 2023

More than 540,000 children under the age of five suffering life-threatening severe acute malnutrition, with one child continuing to die every 10 minutes from preventable causes

Children in a classroom for the ECHO funded UNICEF's catch-up classes programme in one of the IDP camp in Marib, Yemen.

UNICEF calls on de facto authorities to allow girls to return to secondary school in Afghanistan immediately

Publication date: March 21, 2023

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the start of the new school year in Afghanistan

UNICEF calls on de facto authorities to allow girls to return to secondary school in Afghanistan immediately

More than 10 million people, including children, living in Pakistan’s flood-affected areas still lack access to safe drinking water - UNICEF

Publication date: March 21, 2023

Six months after catastrophic floods struck Pakistan, more than 10 million people, including children, living in flood-affected areas remain deprived of safe drinking water, leaving families with no alternative but to drink and use potentially disease-ridden water.

Nafisa (6) drinking water from a community handpump.

A triple threat of water-related crises is endangering the lives of 190 million children - UNICEF

Publication date: March 20, 2023

As world leaders prepare to attend the historic UN Water Conference, UNICEF calls for urgent investment in climate-resilient water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services to protect children

Children gathering water in the village of Naaba Guegma, in the Northern region of Burkina Faso.

In wake of Cyclone Freddy, amid disruption to critical services, cholera surges in Mozambique

Publication date: March 20, 2023

One week after Cyclone Freddy made landfall for a second time in Mozambique, creating severe disruption to critical services, the threat of cholera is growing rapidly for children and families.

March 13, 2023. A group of children walks through a flooded street after Cyclone Freddy passes through Quelimane on March 11.

Children at risk of cholera in aftermath of Cyclone Freddy - UNICEF

Publication date: March 19, 2023

Millions of children are at risk in the face of a potential increase in cholera cases in Malawi and Mozambique in the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Freddy, which has ravaged both countries for the second time in less than a month.

Classroom, Feeding Shelters, Kitchen, Teachers Houses, Toilets and Headteachers Office at Chingoli Primary School in Mulanje District, surbmerged in the waters of Thuchila river due to cyclone Freddy.

10 million children in extreme jeopardy in central Sahel as insecurity seeps into neighbouring countries – UNICEF

Publication date: March 17, 2023

Ten million children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are in dire need of humanitarian assistance – twice as many as in 2020 – largely due to spiralling conflict, while nearly 4 million children are at risk in neighbouring countries as hostilities between armed groups and national security forces spill across borders, according to a UNICEF child alert issued today.

Amina 17 from Dafur dreams of an education.

UNICEF warns of looming child nutrition crisis in Syria amid 12 years of conflict and deadly earthquakes

Publication date: March 15, 2023

Twelve years of conflict, and the recent deadly earthquakes, have left millions of children in Syria at heightened risk of malnutrition, UNICEF warned today.

On 10 February 2023, Sondos, two years and eight months, in her father’s arms, is screened for malnutrition by a UNICEF-supported mobile health team worker, using a mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) tape, in the Alsalheen neighbourhood, Aleppo city, north Syria.

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