200,000 Children Need Urgent Support in Eastern Ukraine: UNICEF
More than 200,000 children – or 1 in 4 – in the two regions most severely affected by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine require urgent and sustained psychosocial support…
27 Million People Lack Safe Water in Countries Facing Famine
Water shortages, inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene practices and disease outbreaks are posing an additional threat to severely malnourished children in northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen, UNICEF said today.…
Half of Yemen Population Lives on Less Than $2 a Day
After two years of brutal conflict, families in Yemen are increasingly resorting to extreme measures to support their children, said UNICEF in a report released Monday as the war in…
Nearly 600 Million Children to Have Limited Access to Water
Some 600 million children – or 1 in 4 children worldwide – will be living in areas with extremely limited water resources by 2040, according to a UNICEF report released…
More Than 1 Million Children Affected by Drought in Kenya
The onset of a severe drought in 2016 has hit arid and semi-arid regions in Kenya, affecting over 2.7 million people. UNICEF is supporting the Government of Kenya in initiating…
UN Experts Urge to Protect the Rights of People to Live in Clean Environments
United Nations (UN) human rights experts are calling for strong, urgent action by States to ensure that people around the world can enjoy the human right to live in environments…