Three in five babies not breastfed in the first hour of life Publication date: July 31, 2018 Breastfeeding within an hour after birth is critical for saving newborn lives
Children account for nearly one-third of identified trafficking victims globally Publication date: July 29, 2018 UNICEF and the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking urge Governments to adopt solutions shown to protect uprooted children
Every three minutes a teenage girl is infected by HIV – UNICEF Publication date: July 25, 2018 Teenage girls bear brunt of a far-from-over HIV/AIDS epidemic
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Lilly Singh visits South Africa to meet students affected by violence in school Publication date: July 24, 2018 UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Lilly Singh, travelled to South Africa this week to meet children who are speaking out on classroom violence and bullying, as part of UNICEF’s work to end violence in schools.
Access to children in need in Syria continues to be severely restricted Publication date: July 19, 2018 Ahead of the UN Security Council meeting on Syria, UNICEF renews its call for safe and unconditional humanitarian access to reach children in need wherever they are
Six children among the dead in north-western Libya Publication date: July 17, 2018 Attributable to Abdel-Rahman Ghandour, Special Representative of UNICEF for Libya
Record number of children vaccinated in 2017 Publication date: July 16, 2018 As over 19 million children miss out on vaccinations, UNICEF and WHO call for concerted efforts to reach all children
UNICEF Nigeria welcomes release of over 180 children suspected of Boko Haram ties from administrative custody Publication date: July 9, 2018 UNICEF welcomes today the release of 183 children from Nigerian Armed Forces, in Maiduguri, Borno State, northeast Nigeria. The release comes after the children, aged 7-18, were cleared of ties with Boko Haram insurgents.
3 in 4 children born in South Sudan since independence have known nothing but war – UNICEF Publication date: July 8, 2018 Out of 3.4 million babies born in South Sudan since it became the world’s youngest country in 2011, 2.6 million have been born in war, UNICEF said on the eve of South Sudan’s independence.
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore on fatal shooting of aid worker in South Sudan Publication date: July 5, 2018 We are deeply saddened to confirm that one aid worker was killed yesterday when a UNICEF convoy came under fire by unknown assailants.
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