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UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Hannan Sulieman's remarks at the United Nations Security Council Briefing on the humanitarian situation in Sudan

"As fighting intensifies in and around Al Obeid, an estimated 500,000 civilians are at risk. Children are at immediate and growing danger of being killed, injured, displaced, or exposed to other grave violations.

Children are adopting AI technologies more than three times faster than adults

Statement by UNICEF on children’s use of Artificial Intelligence ahead of the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance

The children of Syria deserve a future worthy of their strength

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Muzoon Almellehan – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

In a classroom with pink walls, a smiling girl wearing a hijab and a UNICEF shirt sits among attentive peers. The atmosphere is warm and positive.

Gaza’s children call for the future they need

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Chief of Communication in the State of Palestine Jonathan Crickx – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

A drawing of a girl in colorful clothes playing with a teddy bear among flowers. The backdrop shifts from war-torn black-and-white to colorful urban life, contrasting despair with hope.

Number of children killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, reaches unprecedented levels

Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Adele Khodr

Number of children without critical social protection increasing globally – ILO and UNICEF

Multiple crises set to plunge more children into poverty creating an urgent need to scale-up social protection; new report warns

Awa Sobre, a 12 year old girl is very happy with her bicycle, in Dedougou, in the west of Burkina Faso.

UNICEF provides cash support to more than 40,000 Lebanese children

Lebanon’s deteriorating economic situation is threatening the livelihoods of the most vulnerable Lebanese households, putting children and young people’s education, protection and health at risk. UNICEF with partners have activated a cash assistance programme to support approximately 40,000 children from 15,000 Lebanese families.

Two children show off their UNICEF supplies in Lebanon.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on the COVID-19 pandemic

UNICEF is working to help prevent the spread of the virus among communities in the affected countries. We are sharing accurate information on how to keep families safe, providing hygiene and medical kits to schools and health clinics, and mitigating the impact of the outbreak on children’s access to health, education and social services.

A Syrian volunteer disinfects a classroom in rural Idlib.

Almost 5 million children born into war in Syria, 1 million born as refugees in neighbouring countries – UNICEF

Over 9,000 children killed or injured in the conflict, according to verified data

A child stands outside the ruins of a building in rural Syria.

UNICEF statement on COVID-19 outbreak

UNICEF has been preparing and responding to the epidemic of COVID-19 around the world, knowing that the virus could spread to children and families in any country or community

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