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From cholera in Yemen to attacks on hospitals in Syria, conflict threatens lives of over 24 million children in the Middle East and North Africa

Posted 24/05/2017

Violence and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa have put in jeopardy the health of 24 m...

UNICEF Child Alert on Myanmar: Fruits of rapid development and reconciliation efforts yet to reach remote, conflict-affected regions

Posted 23/05/2017

Unresolved conflict, poverty and under-development are preventing children in more remote parts o...

Five-fold increase in number of refugee and migrant children traveling alone since 2010

Posted 18/05/2017

The global number of refugee and migrant children moving alone has reached a record high, increas...

Australia's Budget must leave no child behind

Posted 09/05/2017

UNICEF Australia welcomes aspects of tonight’s Federal Budget, however there are also some ...

More than one million children have fled escalating violence in South Sudan

Posted 08/05/2017

More than one million children have now fled South Sudan where escalating conflict is ravaging th...

UNICEF statement on release of Chibok school girls abducted by Boko Haram

Posted 07/05/2017

UNICEF welcomes Saturday’s release of over 80 of the girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgent...

Refugee and migrant children stranded in European transit countries suffer psychologically in the face of uncertain future

Posted 04/05/2017

Nearly 75,000 refugees and migrants, including an estimated 24,600 children, currently stranded i...

Projected number of severely malnourished Somali children up 50 percent

Posted 03/05/2017

The projected number of children who are or will be acutely malnourished has shot up by 50 per ce...

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