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News Hour: UNICEF, the World Health Organisation, and partners have completed the first round of a vaccination campaign in response to the recent outbreak of vaccine-derived polio in Syria. The campaign provided vital protection against the...

News Hour: UNICEF is on the ground urgently responding to the needs of displaced families affected by the flooding and landslides in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown which have killed several hundred people including at least 109...

News Hour Since the outbreak of civil war in Yemen in 2015, malnutrition in the Middle Eastern country has reached critical—and unprecedented—levels. According to UNICEF, the United Nations program that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to...

News Hour The ongoing conflict in Iraq has left a total of 11 million people, including 5.1 million children, in need of humanitarian assistance. Children make up almost half of the 3 million Iraqis displaced by...

News Hour: No country in the world fully meets recommended standards for breastfeeding, according to a new report by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Global Breastfeeding Collective, a new initiative...

News Hour No country in the world fully meets recommended standards for breastfeeding, according to a new report by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Global Breastfeeding Collective, a new initiative...

News Hour Recent time in Yemen a cholera outbreak caused a lot of death and humanitarian crisis. This is the world’s worst cholera outbreak in the midst of the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. In the last...

News Hour: Children on the move into Europe from Africa take the decision to leave home on their own and do not initially intend to go to Europe. For the majority the systematic trauma and abuse...

News Hour: Worldwide, 12.9 million infants, nearly 1 in 10, did not receive any vaccinations in 2016, according to the most recent WHO and UNICEF immunization estimates. This means, critically, that these infants missed the first dose...

News Hour: UNICEF on July 15 appointed Indian-origin Canadian YouTube star Lilly Singh as its newest and youngest Global Goodwill Ambassador at a special event here. Lilly was in the capital to support UNICEF’s Youth4Change initiative,...