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Children under attack in 2017

For children trapped in conflict zones around the world, 2017 has been a ‘nightmare year’.

Children under attack at shocking scale in conflicts around the world, says UNICEF

This year, children in conflict zones around the world have come under attack at a shocking scale UNICEF warned today, with parties to conflicts blatantly disregarding international laws designed to protect the most vulnerable.

More than 1,000 babies to be born on New Year’s Day in Canada, says UNICEF

Approximately 1,062 babies will be born in Canada on New Year’s Day, UNICEF said today. Canadian babies will account for 0.27 per cent of the estimated 385,793 babies to be born globally on New Year’s Day.

Child trafficking is a price we must not let the Rohingya pay

How much is a child worth?

A bloody start to a new year in Syria: More than 30 children killed in first two weeks of 2018

At a time when most parents are filled with the new year’s hope for their children’s future, mothers and fathers in Syria are left grieving for the children they have lost.

Three million children born into war in Yemen

More than 3 million children were born in Yemen since the escalation in violence in March 2015 according to a UNICEF report. Born into War details how children in Yemen have been scarred by years of violence, displacement, disease, poverty, undernutrition and a lack of access to basic services including water, health care and education.

Half a million Rohingya refugee children at risk in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh with cyclone and monsoon season on horizon

The health and safety of more than 520,000 Rohingya children living in overcrowded camps and informal settlements in Bangladesh is likely to be put at even greater risk ahead of upcoming cyclone and monsoon seasons, UNICEF warned today.

UN agencies in urgent bid to prevent famine in Kasai

In a stark warning, three UN agencies – the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) – say time is running out to save hundreds of thousands of lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Help the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s children: the main victims of the conflict in Kasai

Children living in Kasai, one of the poorest regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, remain the main victims of the crisis. When violence erupted, families fled into the forest. Sometimes families have described fleeing three or four times, sometimes even in the middle of the night.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore following two-day visit to conflict-ravaged South Sudan

"I have just spent two days in South Sudan where I saw firsthand how four years of a man-made conflict have left children sick, hungry and on the brink of death."