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UNICEF calls on the world to urgently swing into action and do much more to help the Rohingya people and avert a humanitarian catastrophe

Posted 20/10/2017

The plight of the Rohingya people in Myanmar and their mass exodus as refugees to Bangladesh is t...

7,000 newborns die every day worldwide, despite steady decrease in under-five mortality, new report says

Posted 19/10/2017

Every day in 2016, 15,000 children died before their fifth birthday, 46 per cent of them – ...

Violence in Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, reportedly destroys cold room and vaccines

Posted 13/10/2017

UNICEF has received reports that ongoing violence in Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria has destroyed a...

World’s second largest oral cholera vaccination campaign kicks off at Rohingya camps in Bangladesh

Posted 11/10/2017

A massive cholera immunization campaign started today near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, to prot...

Rohingya crisis: Joint statement by Emergency Relief Coordinator and United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mark Lowcock and UNICEF Executive Director, Anthony Lake

Posted 09/10/2017

"We leave Bangladesh moved by the stories of suffering that we heard from refugees fleeing t...

UNICEF appeals for US$76.1 million to assist children in Bangladesh affected by the Rohingya crisis

Posted 04/10/2017

UNICEF is launching a US$76.1 million appeal for its emergency humanitarian response to the Rohin...

UNICEF expands relief efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean to reach more children and families following 'relentless' month

Posted 28/09/2017

UNICEF has scaled up its humanitarian response in Latin America and the Caribbean to help childre...

Rohingya refugee crisis on the verge of becoming a humanitarian catastrophe in our region: more than 14,000 children in immediate danger of dying from malnutrition

Posted 26/09/2017

If critical life-saving assistance is not delivered in a strategic and orderly manner to the unpr...

Alliance calls on Australian Government to lead the way in protecting displaced children

Posted 21/09/2017

A coalition of NGOs is calling on the Australian Government to lead the way in protecting child r...

Only 15 countries worldwide have three essential national policies that support families with young children – Australia is not among them

Posted 21/09/2017

Only 15 countries worldwide have three basic national policies that help guarantee the time and r...

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