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KYIV, 13 April 2024—“UNICEF is deeply concerned about the sharp increase in the number of child casualties in Ukraine as many areas continue to be hit by intensified attacks, 780 days since the escalation of the war. “According to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, at least 57 children were killed or injured in March alone,…

After four years of conflict, over 750 schools have been destroyed or damaged in eastern Ukraine. Education – so crucial for a child’s sense of ‘normalcy’ – has been shattered, with more than one in five schools damaged or destroyed.  Sisters, nine-year-old Diana and 13-year-old Dasha, are just two of the 200,000 children who go to school every…

NEW YORK, 15 May 2018 – “From the Central African Republic to South Sudan, and from Syria to Afghanistan, attacks on children in conflict have continued unabated during the first four months of the year.    "With little remorse and even less accountability, parties to conflict continue to blatantly disregard one of the most basic rules in war: the…

More than four years of conflict in eastern Ukraine have taken a devastating toll on the education system, destroying and damaging hundreds of schools and forcing 200,000 girls and boys to learn in militarized environments, amid volatile fighting and dangers due to unexploded weapons of war. Lera, 10, sits at her desk in a classroom with sandbags…

GENEVA, 4 May 2018 – More than four years of conflict in eastern Ukraine have taken a devastating toll on the education system, destroying and damaging hundreds of schools and forcing 200,000 girls and boys to learn in militarized environments, amid volatile fighting and dangers due to unexploded weapons of war, said UNICEF today.  “Children are…

BRUSSELS/AMMAN, 23 April 2018 -  Against all odds, 4.9 million Syrian children continue to have access to education despite more than seven long years of war, violence and displacement.  “Massive funding from donors, unprecedented generosity from host governments and communities; relentless work from heroic teachers and the determination of Syrian…

One year ago, Ahmed El Ilevi began most of his days in the emergency room. He and his children had just moved to Adana in Turkey from Syria, after being forced from their home during heavy bombardments. Seven-year-old Emine, his oldest child, was severely injured by a bomb during one of the attacks, and had been in and out of hospitals ever since…

BEIRUT/AMMAN/DAMASCUS, 12 March 2018 – With no end in sight to the war in Syria, children with disabilities risk being excluded and forgotten.  The conflict in Syria continued unabated through 2017, killing the highest ever number of children – 50 per cent more than in 2016. In the first two months of 2018 alone, 1,000 children were reportedly…

In conflict-ridden eastern Ukraine, a contact line stretching 472 km separates government-controlled from non-government-controlled areas. Children living in proximity to the line face daily threats from shelling, mines and unexploded ordnance. Meet two families, living on opposite sides of the line, but both struggling to make it through winter.…, Emotional scars of war, Maryna, who lives with her daughter’s family in non-government controlled Donetsk, is just a kilometer from the contact line. Anxious to escape the fighting, they were living with acquaintances out of town. Now, after running out of money, they have been forced back home, where the shelling continues unabated. “The house is small and old and there…, Water under fire, The family’s home has had no running water for four years, after piping was damaged by shelling. The children regularly accompany their mother to a well to collect water. “We go every day, sometimes several times,” says Karina. When it rains, the family rushes to fill their yard with buckets and bowls. “I don’t know why, but our well water now…, “War surrounds the children”, On the other side of the contact line, Tetiana and her three children are also struggling through the freezing winter. “In December, we bought a ton of coal and a second-hand jacket for our son from acquaintances, as we had no money to buy a new one,” she says. “I had almost no money left for January, and I need to choose between buying diapers…

AMMAN, 5 February 2018 - “In this dark month of January, conflicts and violence in the Middle East and North Africa have once again taken a devastating toll on children. They were killed in ongoing conflicts, suicide attacks, or frozen to death as they fled active warzones. “It is simply unacceptable that children continue being killed and injured…

NEW YORK, 31 January 2018 – Nearly 3 in 10 young people aged between 15 and 24 years old – 59 million – living in countries affected by conflict or disaster are illiterate, triple the global rate, UNICEF said today.  Niger, Chad, South Sudan and Central African Republic – all countries with a long history of instability and high levels of poverty…

NEW YORK/GENEVA, 30 January 2018 – UNICEF Humanitarian Action for Children 2018 UNICEF appealed today for $3.6 billion to provide lifesaving humanitarian assistance to 48 million children living through conflict, natural disasters and other emergencies in 51 countries in 2018.  Around the world, violent conflict is driving humanitarian needs to…