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An estimated 60,000 children face potential starvation in North Korea, where international sanctions are exacerbating the situation by slowing aid deliveries, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday. World powers have imposed growing sanctions...

The vast Kutupalong camp shelters many of the 688,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled across the border from Myanmar’s Rakhine State following an outbreak of violence there in late August last year. More than half of...

The dire situation has largely been caused by violence, mass displacement, and reduced agricultural production over the past 18 months. At least 400,000 children under five in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the...

The number of new arrivals has increased since the MR campaign, which also had challenges reaching out to all children in view of the movement of people within the camps and settlements. An increase in the...

News Hour: Although the number of children under five years dying from diarrhoea each year in Afghanistan has dropped below 10,000 for the first time, the disease still claims the lives of 26 children each day...

News Hour: The coming winter is the latest threat to children affected by crises in the Middle East. As UNICEF races to provide warm clothing, winter supplies, and blankets before the cold sets in, the organization...

News Hour: Unless progress is seriously accelerated, it will take over 100 years to end child marriage in West and Central Africa, with far-reaching, life-altering consequences for millions of child brides and crippling impact on the...

News Hour: Every day in 2016, 15,000 children died before their fifth birthday, 46 percent of them – or 7,000 babies – died in the first 28 days of life, according to a new UN report. Levels...

News Hour: Desperate living conditions and waterborne diseases are threatening more than 320,000 Rohingya refugee children who have fled to southern Bangladesh since late August, including some 10,000 who crossed from Myanmar over the past few...

News Hour: A massive cholera immunization campaign started near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, to protect newly arrived Rohingya and host communities from the life-threatening diarrheal disease. 900 000 doses of the vaccine have been mobilized and are...