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UNICEF backpacks used as a haunting symbol to call for greater protection of children living in conflict

New York, Sept 9 (JEN): As children in many parts of the world return to school, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched a haunting installation on Sunday that displays 3,758 school backpacks as headstones to illustrate the grave scale of child deaths in conflict in 2018 and call for greater protection of children living in conflict. more

In Afghanistan, attacks against schools have tripled in one year

New York, May 29 (JEN): The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday that much greater protection for educational facilities was needed across Afghanistan where attacks against sc ...

Children suffering ‘atrocities’ as number of countries in conflict hits new peak: UNICEF

New York: The world “has failed” to sufficiently protect children caught up in conflict and millions more are at risk of harm, the United Nations Children’s Fund ( ...

UNICEF welcomes Bangladesh statement that Rohingya will not be forced to leave

New York, UN Children’s Fund UNICEF on Friday welcomed confirmation from the Bangladesh authorities that Rohingya refugees will not be returned to Myanmar against their will, amid r ...

80,000 youngsters at risk in DRC after forcible expulsion from Angola: UNICEF

Tens of thousands of children who have been forcibly returned from Angola to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) need help urgently, UN Children’s Fund UNICEF said on Tuesday ...

Vulnerable children face ‘dire and dangerous’ situation on Greek island reception centres, UNICEF warns

New York, Overcrowding in Greek island reception centres for refugees and migrants has made conditions for children there increasingly “dire and dangerous”, the United N ...

UNICEF warns of ‘lost generation’ of Rohingya youth, one year after Myanmar exodus

New York, The refugee crisis in Bangladesh sparked by the mass exodus of people from Myanmar almost a year ago risks creating a “lost generation” of Rohingya children wh ...

US and Mexico child deportations drive extreme violence and trauma: UNICEFN

New York, The many life-threatening dangers faced by children from Central America who are being deported from the United States of America and Mexico, are highlighted in a new report fro ...

UNICEF appeals for end to ‘war on children’ in Syria and Yemen

New York: Attacks against children caught in the conflicts in Syria and Yemen must stop, the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, appealed on Monday.

Yemen: ‘No justification for this carnage,’ says UNICEF chief, as children in need now outnumber population of Switzerland

New York: The relentless conflict in Yemen has pushed a nation already on the brink “deep into the abyss,” said the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) chief on Tues ...