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Gaza: A ceasefire that still kills children is not enough, says UNICEF

·January 13, 2026·2 min read

“That’s roughly a girl or a boy killed here every day during a ceasefire,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told reporters in Geneva. “These children are killed from airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones,” he said, speaking from Gaza City. “They’re killed from tank shelling, they’re killed from live ammunition, they’re...

‘Do not give up on children’: Displaced by violence, a Haitian girl finds hope at school

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·January 3, 2026·4 min read

A teenage Haitian girl who was forced to flee her home in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, due to gang violence has urged adults not to “give up on children.” Thirteen-year-old Dieussika was living peacefully with her family before armed violence and insecurity forced them to flee. “We had to leave our...

Sexual violence against children ‘entrenched, systemic and widespread’ across DR Congo, UNICEF warns

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·December 31, 2025·3 min read

The surge is unfolding against the backdrop of escalating conflict in eastern DRC, where renewed fighting has triggered mass displacement, eroded protection systems and deepened an already severe humanitarian crisis – placing children at heightened risk of abuse, exploitation and lasting trauma. UNICEF has repeatedly called for an immediate cessation...

From farm to classroom: Feeding children and supporting farmers in Timor-Leste

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·December 15, 2025·4 min read

In the mountainous municipality of Manufahi, in southern Timor-Leste, where healthy food is often beyond the budget of most households, the United Nations is helping to make sure the benefits of development are broad. “Our students were not starving, but they were not to getting a nutritious diet,” said Domingos...

World News in Brief: Children hit by HIV funding gaps, risks to Pakistan’s courts, minority exclusion

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·November 29, 2025·3 min read

New modelling shows that if programme coverage falls by half, an additional 1.1 million children could acquire HIV and 820,000 more could die of AIDS-related causes by 2040 – pushing the total toll among children to three million infections and 1.8 million deaths. Even maintaining current service levels would still...

Global measles cases surge as 30 million children miss vaccines, UN health agency warns

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·November 28, 2025·1 min read

Officials said global outbreaks are accelerating as millions of children remain under-immunized following years of COVID-19 pandemic-related disruption. “Measles remains one of the most contagious respiratory viruses,” said Dr. Kate O’Brien, WHO’s Director of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals. “One person can infect up to 18 others. Many people think measles...

Ukraine’s children enter fourth school year under invasion as 4.6 million face education barriers

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·November 26, 2025·1 min read

Since Russian forces invaded Ukraine in 2022, children have continued to bear the brunt of the crisis – unable to attend school regularly, learn safely or experience a sense of normalcy. Air raid alarms disrupt classes. Many schools, especially in frontline areas, remain closed because of hostilities or the lack...

Malaria vaccine price cut set to protect 7 million more children by 2030

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·November 24, 2025·1 min read

Under the agreement, the price of the R21/Matrix-M vaccine will fall to $2.99 per dose within a year – a reduction expected to save up to $90 million. Those savings should allow countries to secure more than 30 million extra doses over the next five years. “Today’s announcement is a...

Gaza: Two children killed every day during fragile ceasefire, says UNICEF

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·November 22, 2025·3 min read

“Yesterday morning, a baby girl was reportedly killed in Khan Younis by an airstrike, while the day before, seven children were killed in Gaza City and the south,” said Ricardo Pires, spokesperson for the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF. What to know UNICEF says 67 children have been killed during the...

Gaza: War has made children violent, sad and bereft

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·November 13, 2025·2 min read

Issuing a warning that the children’s sense of stability and security has been eroded as key everyday services have collapsed, humanitarians insist that young Gazans will need “sustained, long-term efforts to recover”. According to child safety partner assessments conducted in September, shared by the UN aid coordination office (OCHA), 93...

Catch-up immunisation campaign ‘a lifeline’ for Gaza’s children

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·November 6, 2025·3 min read

Estimates indicate one in five children under three are either zero-dose or have missed vaccinations because of the war, putting them at risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks. The catch-up campaign aims to inoculate these children against measles, mumps, and rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, tuberculosis, polio, rotavirus and pneumonia. It will be carried out by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN Palestine...

‘We want to get our lives back,’ Gaza children declare

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·November 1, 2025·3 min read

“What we need now are notebooks, books, and pens. We want to get our lives back”, said one young Palestinian girl, Sham Al-Abd. She now attends the Deir al-Balah Joint Elementary School run by the UN Palestine refugee agency (UNRWA). Despite the old furniture and the few drawings that brighten...