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COVID-19: Number of children living in household poverty to soar by up to 86 million by end of year

Publication date: May 28, 2020

New analysis from Save the Children and UNICEF reveals that without urgent action, the number of children living in poor households across low- and middle-income countries could increase by 15 per cent, to reach 672 million

Chimaou, 3, a migrant child at the Seno site for migrants in quarantine due to COVID-19 in Niamey, Niger.

Countries failing to stop harmful marketing of breast-milk substitutes, warn WHO and UNICEF

Publication date: May 27, 2020

Agencies encourage women to continue to breastfeed during the COVID-19 pandemic

Grandmother Mampu Drami hold her grandson Mohamed after his mom Mohamed Mama Drami (34) who gave birth to twins two weeks ago at the paediatric ward in the Bafata hospital, Guinea Bissau, Thursday,17 January 2020. Unicef support the hospital by providing nutrition counselling, prevention and treatment of nutrition , HIV family testing and birth registration. Unicef Photo/Prinsloo

Food crisis likely to worsen in the Middle East and North Africa as COVID-19 continues

Publication date: May 27, 2020

From the Regional Directors of UNICEF, FAO, WFP and WHO

Girl smiling beside small plastic bags of food

2.3 million children in need of protection in the Central Sahel region in 2020, a more than 80 per cent increase in one year

Publication date: May 22, 2020

Existing child protection crisis worsens amid COVID-19

At least 80 million children under one at risk of diseases such as diphtheria, measles and polio as COVID-19 disrupts routine vaccination efforts, warn Gavi, WHO and UNICEF

Publication date: May 22, 2020

Agencies call for joint effort to safely deliver routine immunization and proceed with vaccination campaigns against deadly vaccine-preventable diseases.

On 3 December 2019, [NAME CHANGED] Nabyla (centre), 13, waits to enter school with her classmates in Kaya, Burkina Faso, the town in which her family found refuge after being displaced.

Surge in violent attacks during COVID-19 lockdown puts children’s lives at risk in eastern Ukraine – UNICEF

Publication date: May 22, 2020

UN Children’s Agency calls for all parties to the conflict to join global ceasefire and end more than six years of fighting

Lera Nagormay, 10, sits for a photograph in a classroom at school in Marinka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

COVID-19: Dangers mount for migrant children forcibly returned to northern Central America and Mexico during pandemic

Publication date: May 21, 2020

Virus fears compound existing discrimination and violence for returned migrant children, leaving them doubly at risk, UNICEF warns

Escalating violence in eastern DRC is straining humanitarian assistance to women and children: UNICEF

Publication date: May 20, 2020

Over a quarter of a million people, the majority of them children, have fled intensifying violence in Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since the beginning of the year, UNICEF warned today.

Loda camp is one of around 87 displacement camps in Ituri province. The population includes around 1,500 children.

At least 19 million children at imminent risk as Cyclone Amphan makes landfall in Bangladesh and India

Publication date: May 20, 2020

Cyclone and COVID-19 present dual threats to children and families in the region, warns UNICEF

Young girl under shelter bracing for Cyclone Amphan

As COVID-19 devastates already fragile health systems, over 6,000 additional children under five could die a day, without urgent action

Publication date: May 13, 2020

UNICEF launches #Reimagine, a global campaign to prevent the pandemic from becoming a lasting crisis for children

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COVID-19: Number of children living in household poverty to soar by up to 86 million by end of year

Countries failing to stop harmful marketing of breast-milk substitutes, warn WHO and UNICEF

Food crisis likely to worsen in the Middle East and North Africa as COVID-19 continues

2.3 million children in need of protection in the Central Sahel region in 2020, a more than 80 per cent increase in one year

At least 80 million children under one at risk of diseases such as diphtheria, measles and polio as COVID-19 disrupts routine vaccination efforts, warn Gavi, WHO and UNICEF

Surge in violent attacks during COVID-19 lockdown puts children’s lives at risk in eastern Ukraine – UNICEF

COVID-19: Dangers mount for migrant children forcibly returned to northern Central America and Mexico during pandemic

Escalating violence in eastern DRC is straining humanitarian assistance to women and children: UNICEF

At least 19 million children at imminent risk as Cyclone Amphan makes landfall in Bangladesh and India

As COVID-19 devastates already fragile health systems, over 6,000 additional children under five could die a day, without urgent action

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