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At least 100,000 children affected by Morocco earthquake – UNICEF

Publication date: September 11, 2023

Initial reports indicate that approximately 100,000 children have been impacted by the powerful earthquake that struck Morocco late on Friday night - the strongest seismic event to hit the Kingdom since 1960.

At least 100,000 children affected by Morocco earthquake – UNICEF

UNICEF STATEMENT ON THE EARTHQUAKE IN MOROCCO

Publication date: September 9, 2023

UNICEF is following the situation and ready to support the Government of Morocco upon its request and under the coordination of the United Nations, to help reach children who may have been impacted by this disaster.

Residents stay out at a square in Marrakesh on September 9, 2023, after an earthquake.

Number of migrant children moving across Latin America and the Caribbean hits new record amid violence, instability and climate change

Publication date: September 7, 2023

One in four people on the move in Latin America and the Caribbean is a child, the highest proportion globally.

Esther, an Haitian mother of two children, arrives in pirogue to Lajas Blancas Migrant Temporary Reception Center, after crossing the Darien jungle with her husband.

Nearly one million children in Mali at risk of acute malnutrition by the end of 2023 – UNICEF-WFP

Publication date: September 1, 2023

Ongoing conflict and lack of humanitarian access are weakening already vulnerable communities.

Children in 98 per cent of African countries at high or extremely high risk of the impacts of climate change: UNICEF

Publication date: September 1, 2023

New report reveals, despite the risks, only 2.4 per cent of global climate funding targets children.

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell visits Brazil to highlight the impact of poverty and climate change on children

Publication date: August 31, 2023

The Executive Director’s visit to Sao Paulo, Recife and Brasilia highlight the more than half of Brazil’s children living in poverty, with many more vulnerable to climate and environmental risks.

On 30 August 2023 in Brazil, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell shares a good laugh with a student while visiting the CEMEI 8 de Março school in the Ibura neighbourhood of Recife.

Widespread learning loss among Ukraine’s children, as students enter fourth year of disruption to education – UNICEF

Publication date: August 29, 2023

Continued attacks on education inside Ukraine and low-level enrolment in host countries have left many of Ukraine’s 6.7 million 3–18-year-olds struggling to learn, warns UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia Regina De Dominicis on return from Ukraine.

Regina De Dominicis, UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, is communicating with preschool children during her visit to "Lisova Pisnya" - one of the kindergarten, supported by UNICEF.

UN Committee on the Rights of the Child calls on states to take action in first guidance on children's rights and the environment, with a focus on climate change

Publication date: August 28, 2023

Today, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child published authoritative guidance to States on what they must do to uphold children’s right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. In the face of the deepening climate crisis, the Committee specified obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Sheenal & Esther, UNICEF staffs speaking with mothers who live in Red Graon community at Teouma.

One year on from catastrophic floods, millions of children in Pakistan still need urgent support

Publication date: August 25, 2023

One year after historic floods devastated Pakistan and a national state of emergency was declared, millions of children continue to need humanitarian assistance and access to essential services, UNICEF warned today. Recovery and rehabilitation efforts remain underfunded.

Muriko bibi (7) and Tehseen (6) sit on the damaged wall of their mud house which was almost destroyed during the 2022 floods in Pakistan.

More than two million children displaced by brutal conflict in Sudan as violence spreads to new areas

Publication date: August 24, 2023

With more children displaced in past 52 days than in previous four years combined, UNICEF warns that, without peace, the future of Sudan’s children is at stake.