Humanitarian action and emergencies

KYIV/GENEVA/NEW YORK, 24 January 2023 – The ongoing war in Ukraine has disrupted education for more than five million children, UNICEF warned today, calling for increased international support to ensure children do not fall further behind. The impact of 11 months of conflict only compounds the two years of lost learning due to the COVID-19…

KYIV, 19 December 2022 – As families in Ukraine mark St. Nicholas Day, UNICEF is stepping up support through new initiatives and activities, ensuring vulnerable children and families across the country receive financial, educational, and moral support over the holiday period. UNICEF is working with the Ministry of Social Policy to provide a total…

NEW YORK/KYIV, 14 December 2022 – Continuing attacks on critical energy infrastructure in Ukraine have left almost every child in Ukraine - nearly seven million children – without sustained access to electricity, heating and water, putting them at increased risk as temperatures continue to drop and winter deepens, UNICEF warned today. Without…

Situation reports are the main reporting tool to monitor UNICEF’s humanitarian response. They provide an update on the situation and needs of children in a country or region, as well as information on UNICEF’s response and funding requirements. 

Humanitarian Action is at the core of UNICEF’s mandate to realize the rights of every child. This edition of  Humanitarian Action for Children  – UNICEF’s annual humanitarian fundraising appeal – describes the ongoing crises affecting refugee and migrant girls and boys in Europe; the strategies that we are using to respond to these situations; and…, Appeal highlights, Between January and August 2022, 165,738 refugees and migrants arrived in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Serbia, a 74 per cent increase compared with 2021. People mainly came from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burundi, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Pakistan and the Syrian Arab Republic, and from North Africa. There are currently…, Key planned results for 2023, Child protection icon 45,000 children reached with quality child protection support (including mental health and psychosocial) Child protection icon 46,440 women and children accessing gender-based violence mitigation, prevention, response Education icon 32,020 children accessing formal or non-formal education, including early learning Advocacy…, Funding requirements for 2023, Country needs and strategy, Humanitarian needs Humanitarian needs, As of August 2022, there were an estimated 473,450 refugees and migrants (22 per cent children) living in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Serbia, with approximately 165,738 new arrivals (up to 30 per cent children) recorded in 2022 – a 74 per cent increase compared with 2021. Arrivals came mainly from Afghanistan, Bangladesh,…, UNICEF's strategy UNICEF’s strategy, With expected continued arrivals of refugees and migrants throughout Europe in 2023, on top of already unprecedented numbers, UNICEF will work towards ensuring that the needs of all refugee and migrant children and their families are addressed. 18 Host governments and communities will be supported to provide essential services including child…, Programme targets, Find out more about UNICEF's work, December 2022, 2023 www.unicef.org/appeals/refugee-migrant-response-europe HumanitarianAction for Children Refugee and migrant response on the Mediterraneanand Western Balkan routesHIGHLIGHTS1 Between January and August 2022, 165,738 refugees and migrants arrived in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Serbia, a 74 per cent increase compared with…

Destroyed infrastructure and freezing weather leave Ukraine’s children facing an uncertain future

Situation reports are the main reporting tool to monitor UNICEF’s humanitarian response. They provide an update on the situation and needs of children in a country or region, as well as information on UNICEF’s response and funding requirements. 

Situation reports are the main reporting tool to monitor UNICEF’s humanitarian response. They provide an update on the situation and needs of children in a country or region, as well as information on UNICEF’s response and funding requirements.

KYIV/NEW YORK, 1 September 2022 – The ongoing war in Ukraine has marred the start of a new school year for Ukraine’s four million schoolchildren, stated UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell as she concluded a three-day visit across the country.  “The new school year should be a time of excitement and promise, as children re-enter the…

“I’m wishing for the war to end.” Maxym, 11 Six months since the war escalated in Ukraine, children have seen things no child should see. Their homes have been hit. Their schools have been attacked. Parents and caregivers have been lost. Families are terrified, in shock, and desperate for safety. Daily life has been torn apart. The story below is…

NEW YORK, 22 August 2022 – “At least 972 children in Ukraine have been killed or injured by violence since the war escalated nearly six months ago, an average of over five children killed or injured each day. “And these are just the figures the UN has been able to verify. We believe the true number to be much higher.   “The use of explosive…

BUCHAREST, Romania – Anastasiia remembers the scenes at the train station in Bucharest in the weeks after she arrived in Romania. She had fled to the city from her hometown of Odesa, in southern Ukraine, with her two-year-old son Kyril as the conflict intensified. Anastasiia left behind her husband, her parents, and her job as deputy principal of…