Limited access to water, sanitation, and hygiene, or WASH, can cause conflict in certain parts of the world and WASH facilities can become casualties in disputes. But WASH also has a role to play in peacekeeping, according to experts Kelly Ann Naylor, associate director of WASH at UNICEF, and Gidon...
Ukrainian refugees, many of them women with young children, arrived weary but relieved at the Medyka border crossing in Poland on March 9. They then boarded buses that would take them to the next stop on their journey. ...
Children on the move are children first. Millions of children are on the move. Some are driven from their homes by conflict, poverty or climate change; others leave in the hope of finding a better life. Far too many encounter danger, detention, deprivation and discrimination on their journeys, at...
ABSTRACT Climate change poses a threat to children, who are increasingly vulnerable, depending on adults to protect them from the impacts of these changes including extreme weather events, poor air and water quality and risk to mental health. Children living in poverty carry additional burdens and...
UNICEF is working to scale up life-saving support for children and their families. The conflict in Ukraine poses an immediate and growing threat to the lives and well-being of the country’s 7.5 million children. Humanitarian needs are multiplying by the hour as fighting intensifies. Children have...
Highlights UNICEF continues to scale up its response to children affected by Super Typhoon Rai (Odette). The typhoon left hundreds dead, hundreds of thousands of families homeless, and disrupted basic services, especially in the Visayas and Mindanao islands. To date, UNICEF has reached over 67,000...
Typhoon Rai swept through 11 of the Philippines’ 17 regions leaving thousands of families without shelter, food, safe water, and livelihoods. 912,000 children are in need of assistance. UNICEF Philippines, headed by Representative Ms. Oyunsaikhan Dendevnorov visited the hardest-hit towns to see the...