Tag: UNICEF
Haiti, a country marked by instability, is facing an unprecedented humanitarian and security crisis, requiring urgent international support. The situation in Haiti continues to deteriorate alarmingly, with more than one million internally displaced people, nearly half of whom are children, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). In the face of this unprecedented humanitarian […]
Nigerian women suffer violence from various angles—home, workplace, and community. These women are not statistics but are mothers, daughters, sisters, and wives who endure daily suffering because the system fails them. Gender-based violence (GBV) refers to any type of harm perpetrated against a person or group of people because of their factual or perceived sex, […]
The UN’s humanitarian efforts, initiated after the Second World War, now play a crucial role in managing international crises, particularly in Africa. Through its specialized agencies, the United Nations coordinates efforts to address the urgent needs of millions, particularly in African countries, which are often among the most vulnerable to natural disasters and humanitarian crises. […]
Education is crucial to national growth and development, and as Cristian Munduate, the Representative of UNICEF in Nigeria, emphasized, schools should be sanctuaries of learning and growth, not sites of fear and violence. Nigeria, with one of the strongest armies in the region, is plagued by insecurity that puts vulnerable groups at risk. Throughout the […]
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) calls for an end to the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) affecting children and their families. The UN agency denounced in its report “global indifference” to the situation in eastern DRC; An indifference which “threatens a generation of children”. Displaced families live in overcrowded […]
Some 115 million boys and men around the world were married during their childhood, according to UNICEF in its first-ever in-depth analysis of married boys published this month. Among them, one in five boys would have been married before the age of 15, which represents 23 million boys (…) Read more on http://www.unicef.org
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) after an assessment visit to Venezuela announced on Friday that about 3.2 million children need help in this country. “According to UN preliminary estimates, one in three children needs help accessing nutrition, health and basic education services,” said Christophe Boulierac, spokesman for the UN, UNICEF at a press conference. The […]
A week before the opening of the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP22) in Morocco, a report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), released today, shows that almost one in seven children in the world, some 300 million, live in a region where the level of toxicity of the outside air due to pollution […]
According to the UN, suspected cases of cholera in South Sudan are increasing and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has stepped up its operations in the country. UNICEF announced that the actual number of cholera cases in the country still to be confirmed, because of lack of laboratory equipment needed for diagnosis. UNICEF also said […]
The conflict in Ukraine has deeply affected the lives of 580,000 children living in non-government controlled areas and close to the front line in the east of the country, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said today, highlighting that 200,000 of them – or one in three – need psychosocial support. “Two years of violence, […]
