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A student in New Zealand reading a document about the UN Charter on the Rights of the Child
New global data: New Zealand ranks alarmingly low for child wellbeing, mental health

14 May 2025

New Zealand has ranked fourth lowest out of 36 OECD and EU countries for child wellbeing in a new report just released by UNICEF.

On 7 May 2025, Jana, 10 years old, is photographed lying on a bed at Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip, recovering from a serious arm injury.
Risk of famine for children across Gaza, new report says

13 May 2025

UNICEF and WFP warn of looming catastrophe as 71,000 children and more than 17,000 mothers are threatened by acute malnutrition.

Ghazal, 4-year-old, endured severe suffering when her house in Gaza City was besieged by military tanks on October 12, 2023
UNICEF to launch groundbreaking project to 3D print prosthetics for war-injured Gaza children

5 May 2025

A groundbreaking project to 3D print prosthetic limbs for war-injured children in Gaza will be launched by UNICEF, thanks to funding from a New Zealand organisation. 

On 24 March 2025 in the State of Palestine, children carry water containers back to their tents in Beach Camp, Gaza City, after filling them from tanks of safe water brought by UNICEF trucks.
The situation for children in the Gaza Strip after two months of aid blockade

2 May 2025

Statement from UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell

On 15 April, displaced children and families that fled the fighting in Zamzam and El Fasher in North Darfur, seek refuge in Tawila. Following attacks on Zamzam and Abu Shouk camps—home to over 700,000 displaced individuals—mass displacements have ensued. Thousands are now arriving in Tawila in search of safety, many of them having been uprooted multiple times. They arrive with little or nothing: no food, no shelter, and lacking the basic necessities for survival. UNICEF and partners are on the ground, addressing the urgent needs of the vulnerable people.
Civilians trapped, children at risk, amid escalating violence in Darfur

1 May 2025

Statement by UNICEF Representative to Sudan Sheldon Yett

A girl receives a dose of oral polio vaccine during a measles and polio immunization campaign in the Castor Church displacement camp in Bangui, Central African Republic.
Increases in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks threaten years of progress

24 April 2025

Immunization efforts are under growing threat as misinformation, population growth, humanitarian crises, and funding cuts jeopardize progress and leave millions of children, adolescents, and adults at risk.

On 2 March 2025, children walk back home from a UNICEF-supported child friendly space in Al Houri internally displaced people’s (IDP) camp in Gedaref State, Sudan.
Sudan: Number of children in need of humanitarian assistance doubles as conflict enters third year

15 April 2025

It's a ‘perfect storm’ of threats to Sudan's 15 million children in need as violence, hunger, and disease increase, and growing constraints on access and funding compound challenges

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