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Soap: One of the Best Defenses Against COVID-19

Posted by UNICEF · May 20, 2020

How UNICEF is equipping families and communities with soap and clean water to protect themselves against COVID-19.

A little girl holds a jerry can of clean water.

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

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

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

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.

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

May 21, 2020

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

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

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.

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

May 22, 2020

Existing child protection crisis worsens amid COVID-19

COVID-19: A Double Emergency

Posted by UNICEF · May 22, 2020

COVID-19 is bringing a new threat to already battered countries – and makes delivering life-saving assistance even harder.

A child stands in front of her tin house in Bangladesh.

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.

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.

A Day in the Life: Internally Displaced Children in Yemen

Posted by UNICEF Canada · May 25, 2020

Muna is 10 years old and is one of the many children living in Al Sha’ab camp in Aden, Yemen. Due to COVID-19, her school in the camp is currently closed but she is trying to make the best of her days at home.

A Silent Crisis

Posted by UNICEF · May 25, 2020

A nationwide lockdown across Bangladesh brings an increased risk of gender-based violence for Rohingya and Bangladeshi women and girls.