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UNICEF helps children threatened by water cuts in Aleppo

New York, Jul 23 (JEN): The restoration of water supplies to the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo has come as a welcome relief to residents whose taps have run dry in recent weeks due to the fighting and frequent power cuts, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday, as it stepped up efforts to assist the local population. more

Year of sustained violence across Iraq has hit children hardest, UN says

New York, July 1 (JEN) The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesdaysaid that over the past year in Iraq, it has seen a 75 per cent increase in grave violations against children ...

Millions of children will fall behind unless new UN development goals focus on most in need – UNICEF

New York, June 24 (JEN) The global community will fail millions of children if it does not focus on the most disadvantaged, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warns in its final rep ...

UNICEF urges more funding in Ukraine for children affected by conflict

New York, Jun 13 (JEN): Ukraine’s children once again find themselves under threat amid renewed fighting across the country’s eastern regions, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICE ...

UNICEF fears kidnapped children sent to front lines: South Sudan

New York, Mar 3 (JEN): Hundreds of children seized by armed men from a village in South Sudan have generated fears that “they are going from the classroom to the front line,” says the Un ...

UNICEF uses electronic vouchers to give Syrian refugee children access to winter clothes

New York, Jan 8 (JEN) As Jordan braces for a winter storm in the next few days, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in partnership with the UN World Food Programme (WFP), on Wed ...

New Year offers little chance for children's education in Syria, warns UNICEF

New York, Jan 7 (IBNS) Recent school closures in Raqqa and Deir-ez-Zour governorates and parts of rural Aleppo in Syria have disrupted the education of some 670,000 children of primary and l ...

Leveraging innovation key to advancing progress on child rights-UNICEF

New York, Nov 21 (JEN) Despite progress in advancing child rights over the past 25 years, including a marked reduction in the number of children dying before the age of five and increased ac ...

Marking World Pneumonia Day, UN calls for greater efforts in preventing child deaths

New York, Nov 13 (JEN): Although significant declines in child deaths from pneumonia demonstrate that strategies to defeat the disease are working, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNI ...

UNICEF welcomes release of 70 Kurdish children after 120 days in captivity

New York, Oct 4 (JEN) The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday welcomed the release of 70 Kurdish children, who were kidnapped in May while traveling from their home-town of A ...