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Millie Bobby Brown, Sofia Carson join UNICEF in the World’s Largest Lesson Live, Encouraging Teens to Reimagine the World Post COVID-19

June 10, 2020

Today World’s Largest Lesson, in partnership with UNICEF and with the support of UNESCO, announces World’s Largest Lesson Live. This 35-minute educational show will premiere on YouTube on the 16th June 2020 11am EST, 4pm BST.

Executive Director of UNICEF Henrietta Fore posing for photo with Goodwill Ambassador Millie Bobby Brown at World Children's Day event in 2019.

Tropical Storm Amanda leaves destruction and grief as it passes through El Salvador

June 2, 2020

Hundreds of Salvadoran families have had to evacuate their homes due to the devastation caused by Tropical Storm Amanda

Overview of the destruction caused by the flooding of the Acelhuate River in the New Israel Community in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, May 31, 2020

UNICEF AIRLIFTS ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES TO RESPOND TO COVID-19 IN YEMEN AS CASES INCREASE

June 1, 2020

In response to the increase in the number of cases of COVID-19 in Yemen, a UNICEF chartered plane on Saturday, 30 May landed at Sana’a airport with lifesaving supplies to help curb the spread of the disease in the conflict-hit country.

After being displaced by ongoing insecurity a young girl helps her family carry home a basic hygiene kit. They received urgent support through the Rapid Response Mechanism in Shuab

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

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.

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

May 27, 2020

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

Girl smiling beside small plastic bags of food

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

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

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

May 22, 2020

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