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UNICEF helping to restore health services for children and families returning to war-torn Mosul

New York, Feb 8 (JEN): Warning about the “alarming” state of Iraq’s healthcare system, especially in war-ravaged areas in and around Mosul, the United Nations children’s agency has stepped up its support to help the Government provide critical medical services so that children and families affected by violence and displacement can resume their lives. more

World ‘failing to stop the war on children,’ says UNICEF Middle East, North Africa director

New York, Feb 6 (JEN): Describing January as “a dark month” in crisis-torn Middle East and North Africa, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) director for the reg ...

Venezuela: Economic woes worsening malnutrition among children, warns UNICEF

New York, Jan 27 (JEN): Amid growing food insecurity and rising malnutrition among children on the back of a protracted economic crisis in Venezuela, the United Nations Children’s F ...

Restive eastern DR Congo home to one of world’s worst displacement crises for children – UNICEF

New York, Jan 26 (JEN): More than 800,000 children have been forced from their homes by violence and armed clashes in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in what the United Nat ...

UNICEF official calls 2017 ‘horrible’ for children in Yemen

New York, Dec 27(Just Earth News): Children in Yemen could not have a worse year than 2017, according to a senior official from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

UNICEF says 2017 has been a ‘very difficult year’ for children in Central African Republic

New York, Dec 20(Just Earth News): For children and women in the Central African Republic, 2017 has been a very difficult year and sadly, the situation is not expected to improve in the c ...

UNICEF urges opportunities for 'forgotten minority' as study reveals bleak prospects for 180 million children

New York, Nov 20(Just Earth News): Despite global progress, one in 12 children live in countries with prospects more limited than those of their parents, the United Nations Children's ...

UNICEF warns 1,800 unaccompanied refugee children in Greece need proper shelter, care

New York, Oct 30(Just Earth News): Two-thirds of the nearly 3,000 unaccompanied refugee and migrant children currently in Greece are not receiving proper shelter and care, the United Nations ...

UNICEF and partner agencies in South Sudan help reunite 5,000 children with families

New York, Oct 19(Just Earth News): Since conflict broke out in South Sudan in 2013, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Save the Children and other partners have successfully reun ...

UNICEF warns of nutrition crisis affecting 165,000 children in Mali

New York, Oct 10(Just Earth News): A nutrition crisis, exacerbated by continuing violence, instability and displacement, is threatening the lives and futures of thousands of children in Mali ...