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As millions of school children return to school across the European Region where the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is dominant, the WHO Regional Office for Europe and UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office call...

UNICEF has published a note to show solidarity with the children of Afghanistan. Here it is attached. “In the past weeks, with increased conflict and insecurity, it is children, those least responsible for the crisis in...

A child’s first day of school—a landmark moment for the youngest students and their parents around the world—has been delayed due to COVID-19 for an estimated 140 million young minds, UNICEF said in a new analysis...

As the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan worsens, the country’s ability to respond is fast deteriorating. WHO and UNICEF appeal for immediate and unhindered access to millions of people in need of assistance, including 300,000 people who...

In response to the powerful earthquake that struck Haiti last week, the first UNICEF shipment of 9.7 tonnes of medical and water and hygiene supplies has arrived in Port Au Prince. Other flights containing 30 metric...

Young people living in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau are the most at risk of the impacts of climate change, threatening their health, education, and protection, and exposing them to deadly diseases,...

UNICEF estimates that about 1.2 million people, including 540,000 children, have been affected by the powerful earthquake that hit Haiti on Saturday. The hardest hit departments of South, Nippes and Grand’Anse are now being drenched by...

Around one in three countries where schools are or have been closed are not yet implementing remedial programmes post-COVID-19 school closures, according to a UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank and OECD global “Survey on National Education Responses...

On July 6, 2021, the ILO, UNICEF, UNFPA, and UN Women held a virtual stakeholders’ dialogue to highlight the living conditions of tea garden workers and their families during the Covid-19 pandemic as part of the...

Six years on, Yemeni children’s education has become one of the greatest casualties of Yemen’s devastating and ongoing conflict, according to a new report published by UNICEF today. Just over 2 million school-age girls and boys...