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COVID education is child’s play for Thai UN volunteer
An innovative initiative to provide child-friendly information about COVID-19 has been launched by a UN volunteer (UNV) in Thailand who recognized that children needed to know more... More
Yemeni boy fights malnutrition as hunger stalks nation's children
Four months ago 10-year-old Hassan Merzam Muhammad was so severely malnourished he was unable to walk or react, carried limp into a Yemeni clinic by his father. More
Amid ‘unprecedented’ needs, UNICEF asks for $6.4 billion to help 190 million children
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday, launched a $6.4 billion emergency funding appeal to reach more than 190 million children affected by humanitarian crises amidst the... More
Children head to diamond mines in pandemic-hit Central African Republic
Since the coronavirus forced his school to close in March, Papin has been working six days a week at a diamond mine in the Central African Republic (CAR) - hauling sacks of mud and... More
Mali: COVID-19 and conflict lead to rise in child trafficking
Child trafficking is rising in Mali, along with forced labour and forced recruitment by armed groups, due to conflict, insecurity and the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN refugee agency, ... More
A ‘digital canyon’: 1.3 billion school-aged children can’t log on to internet at home
A staggering two-thirds of world’s school-aged children – 1.3 billion children aged 3-17 – do not have internet connection in their homes, preventing them from learning vital skills... More
COVID-19 worsening gender-based violence, trafficking risk, for women and girls
With the COVID-19 pandemic heightening the dangers of gender-based violence and human trafficking, action on these two fronts is needed now more than ever, the head of the UN Office... More
The pandemic is fuelling slavery and sexual exploitation, UN experts warn
The COVID-19 pandemic has played into the hands of slavers and traffickers and requires stronger government measures to prevent exploitation of vulnerable people, more than 50... More
Rising hunger in drought-stricken southern Madagascar forcing families to eat insects: WFP
Hunger is on the rise in southern Madagascar due to consecutive years of drought, affecting half the region’s population, or 1.5 million people, and forcing most families to eat... More
UNICEF Executive Director: Children’s lives at risk in Ethiopia
It’s been 3 weeks since hostilities broke out in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. In that short space of time, the humanitarian situation has rapidly deteriorated and the lives of... More
Child sex trafficking: It's probably not what you think it is
"You just have to dance, we can make a little money like that." That's what Shandel, then 13, said her boyfriend told her at a party he had taken her to some 12 years ago. More
A child infected with HIV every 100 seconds, new UN report reveals
Approximately once every minute and 40 seconds, a child or young person under the age of 20 was infected with HIV last year, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reported, calling on... More
More than 26,000 children killed or injured in Afghanistan since 2005, as ‘appalling cost’ of conflict revealed
An average of five children have been killed or injured every day in Afghanistan since 2005, according to UN data released by Save the Children. The “appalling cost” of the conflict... More
No time to waste, as Yemen inches towards famine: UN Children's Fund
Raising alarm over “an imminent catastrophe” in war-ravaged Yemen, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reiterated the urgent need for combatants to stop the fighting. ... More
