Preparing for Irma: UNICEF Haiti's team deployed at the frontline
UNICEF has started to deploy teams to the locations that will most likely be hit hardest once Irma reaches the Haitian shore.
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Less than 11 months since Matthew, will Irma be kind to Haiti?
As Hurricane Irma wreaks havoc on Haiti in 2017, Victoria Maskell reflects on past and present efforts to save the lives of children living in the country.
Hurricane Irma: Dispatches from the field
Two islands, two perspectives from UNICEF staff on the devastating effects that Hurricane Irma has caused for children and their families.
Danger every step of the way
Alone on the move to Europe, their friendship started when seven Gambian boys met while waiting to travel by boat from Libya to Italy. Referencing their journey, the boys named their crew “Do it or die”.
The Road to Europe
Uprooted children are vulnerable to being preyed upon by smugglers and traffickers.
An Agenda for Action
UNICEF’s call for practical action and public engagement to help protect every child uprooted by war, violence and poverty.
One in five children across the Middle East and North Africa needs humanitarian aid
Over 90 per cent are in conflict-affected countries- UNICEF New Analysis
Residents abandon hurricane-ravaged Barbuda
A first hand account of the after effects of Hurricane Irma on the island of Barbuda, where the storm has left many of its 1,600 residents homeless and needing immediate assistance.
Nearly 400,000 Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar in the last 3 weeks
Since August 25, more than 400,000 Rohingya refugees have crossed the border between Myanmar's Rakhine State and Bangladesh, and that number is rising exponentially every day.
Up to three quarters of children and youth face abuse, exploitation and trafficking on Mediterranean migration routes – UNICEF, IOM
Children from sub-Saharan Africa targeted more than any other group, pointing to impact of discrimination and racism
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