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...
From sites strategically located near the border along popular transit routes, UNICEF delivers emergency services to refugee children and mothers arriving in Romania and other host countries — paying particular attention to children who arrive unaccompanied. In the past 10 days, 1.7 million people...
A young boy shares his musical gifts with other displaced families at a theatre in western Ukraine. “When I play the piano, I forget about the war,” says 9-year-old Maksym. He fled eastern Ukraine with his mother and brother as the conflict escalated, and has been sheltering in Lviv, a city in...
UNICEF warns of mounting risks for children as conflict intensifies in populated areas GENEVA, 3 March 2022 – The conflict in Ukraine, now in its second week, is exacting a harrowing toll on children, UNICEF warned today. Millions of children could be caught up in the violence as the fighting...
Our Executive Director Catherine Russell met with families on the border between Romania and Ukraine. In the face of escalating conflict and COVID-19, UNICEF teams are working around the clock to support children, including scaling up efforts to provide safe water, healthcare and protection. {...
This is a summary of what was said by Afshan Khan, UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. GENEVA, 25 February 2022 - "As many of you know, the military operation in Ukraine poses an...