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Advisory: Child and Youth Strategy report shows worsening outcomes for children in Aotearoa

10 April 2025

Following today’s release of the Annual Report on the government’s Child and Youth Strategy, UNICEF Aotearoa is deeply concerned that children’s lives are worsening year on year.

Salimata Traore (left) is practicing kangaroo care with one of the twins of her friend, at the SMK unit of the CHU Hospital in Treichville, southern Côte d’Ivoire.
Aid cuts threaten fragile progress in ending maternal deaths, UN agencies warn

7 April 2025

Countries must recommit to ending deaths in childbirth amid major headwinds

Gaza City - Dar Al-Arqam School - "In the afternoon of Thursday, 03 April 2025, Dar Al-Arqam School in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood of east Gaza—serving as a shelter for displaced families—was targeted in an attack. This tragic event led to many children and women being injured and rushed to hospitals in Gaza City, including Al-Ahli Arab Hospital and Al-Ma’amdani Hospital.
World must act with urgency to save Palestinians in Gaza

7 April 2025

Statement by heads of OCHA, UNICEF, UNOPS, UNRWA, WFP and WHO

On 17 March 2025, mothers receive health and nutrition services from a UNICEF-supported clinic in Al-Hamidiya Camp, Zalingi, Central Darfur.
At least 14 million children face disruptions to critical nutrition services in 2025

27 March 2025

Reductions in donor funding threaten to unravel decades of progress for the world’s most vulnerable children and women

12 March 2025, Dobropillia, eastern Ukraine. Eight-year-old Myroslava stands in front of a bombed-out residential building, one of several damaged in a missile strike on 7 March.
Deadly attacks affecting children in Ukraine, a tragic reminder that nowhere is safe

24 March 2025

Statement attributable to Munir Mammadzade, UNICEF Representative to Ukraine

February 19, 2025  Asya, 12, (center, looking at the camera) enjoys the new school environment with her classmates in Nazyan Jalalabad province.
400,000 more girls deprived of their right to education in Afghanistan, bringing total to 2.2 million

22 March 2025

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the third anniversary of the ban on secondary education for girls in Afghanistan

On 18 March, multiple airstrikes reportedly killed hundreds of people, including dozens of children, and injured many others in the Gaza Strip. Many tents and temporary shelters have been hit like here in Al Nusirat Camp, where children are sitting among the rubble of their homes.
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the attacks in Gaza

18 March 2025

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the attacks in Gaza

Children in the Gaza Strip face a harsh winter in makeshift shelters, exposed to the cold and rain. With Youngone’s support, we've provided warm clothes to 48,000 children—bringing comfort, hope, and much-needed relief. This partnership makes a big difference by keeping kids warm. While UNICEF continues to deliver essential supplies to families in the Gaza Strip, more support is still needed.
Palestinian children remain deprived of the most essential supplies and services

17 March 2025

Statement by UNICEF Middle East and North Africa Regional Director Edouard Beigbeder

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on global foreign aid reductions

5 March 2025

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on global foreign aid reductions

On 20 February 2025 UNICEF did a successful distribution of essential medical supplies of Emergency Health Kits, pediatric drugs and newborn kits to Al Awda Hospital north of Gaza city, this distribution with strengthen the critical healthcare services for affected populations and help providing adequate and more comprehensive care for over 20,000 people, including more than 100 daily outpatients, 70 of whom are children. This support gives a t timely boost to the hospital’s mission to deliver lifesaving healthcare services.
Ceasefire “a critical lifeline” for children across Gaza

4 March 2025

With stoppage of humanitarian aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip, UNICEF warns of severe consequences for children and families in desperate need

Alina, 12, stands next to her home, scarred by shrapnel in the village of Kobzartsi, Mykolaiv region, which suffered heavy damage during the early days of the full-scale war in Ukraine.
1 in 5 children in Ukraine has lost a relative or friend since the escalation of war three years ago

21 February 2025

UNICEF warns of the devastating toll of war for all children in Ukraine

A student from Survival School inspects a tent set up by UNICEF staff and Red Cross volunteers as a temporary classroom after the December 17th earthquake damaged the school's buildings at Fresh Water Five, Efate, SHEFA, Vanuatu.
Vanuatu's earthquake won’t stop children learning

17 February 2025

UNICEF supports Vanuatu’s recovery plan as thousands of children start a new school year