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Gaza war: UN officials warn of unspeakable conditions as children bear the brunt

·July 17, 2025·3 min read

Tom Fletcher, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, said there was no “vocabulary” left to adequately describe conditions on the ground. “Food is running out. Those seeking it risk being shot. People are dying trying to feed their families. Field hospitals receive dead bodies, and medical workers hear stories firsthand from...

Gaza: UNICEF mourns seven children killed queuing for water

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·July 15, 2025·2 min read

The incident occurred in central Gaza on Sunday, according to media reports, which said that four other people also lost their lives due to the Israeli airstrike. The Israeli military said it had been targeting a terrorist but a “technical error” saw the munition stray off course. Uphold protection of...

Malnutrition crisis deepens for Sudan’s children as war rages on

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·July 12, 2025·2 min read

Across the five states that make up Darfur, UNICEF data revealed a 46 per cent increase in the number of children treated for SAM in January to May 2025 compared to the same period last year. The rate of acute malnutrition has surpassed emergency levels set by the World Health...

DR Congo: New initiative to eliminate HIV in children ‘a beacon of hope’

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·June 29, 2025·1 min read

“Our country can no longer tolerate children being born and growing up with HIV, when tools exist to prevent, detect and effectively treat this infection,” President Félix Tshisekedi declared at a recent government conference in the south-eastern Lualaba province, as he launched the five-year initiative. Backed by an initial commitment...

‘A moral failure’: Security Council hears about grave violations against children caught in war

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·June 25, 2025·3 min read

“From that day on, our home became a travel bag and our path became that of displacement … My childhood was filled with fear and anxiety and people I was deprived of,” she said, speaking via videoconference from Syria. Seema Sen Gupta, director of child protection and migration at...

Haiti: Displaced children face sexual violence risk

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·May 22, 2025·2 min read

Since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, gang violence has permeated the capital Port-au-Prince and expanded into other regions, displacing over one million people. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates that more than half of the displaced are children, meaning one in eight Haitian children has been...

Gaza: 57 children reported dead from malnutrition, says WHO

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·May 13, 2025·2 min read

Since the aid blockade began on 2 March, 57 children have reportedly died from the effects of malnutrition, according to the Ministry of Health. If the situation persists, nearly 71,000 children under the age of five are expected to be acutely malnourished over the next 11 months. Briefing journalists in...

DR Congo crisis: Children subjected to deliberate, systemic sexual violence

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·April 12, 2025·1 min read

Spokesperson James Elder told reporters in Geneva via video link from Goma that children could account for up to 45 per cent of the nearly 10,000 cases of rape and sexual violence documented in January and February, amid heightened tensions between Rwanda-backed M23 rebels and Government forces across the mineral-rich...

UN rights chief urges probe into Russian attack that killed nine children in Ukraine

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·April 6, 2025·2 min read

Volker Türk issued a statement expressing shock at the attack, which occurred on Friday evening in a residential area. A team from the UN Human Rights Office in Ukraine visited the impact site the following day, documented the damage, and established the names and identity of the children who were...

More than one million children in Gaza deprived of aid for over a month: UNICEF

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·April 5, 2025·1 min read

No aid has been allowed into Gaza since 2 March, representing the longest period of aid blockage since the start of the war, resulting in shortages of food, safe water, shelter, and medical supplies. UNICEF said that without these essentials, malnutrition, diseases and other preventable conditions will likely surge, leading...

Gaza: UN humanitarians flag impact on children of return to war

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·April 1, 2025·3 min read

UNICEF’s Rosalia Bollen, who’s on the ground there, said that hundreds of children had been killed and injured – some with severe burns, shrapnel lodged in their bodies, fractures and amputations. “Even on 18 March with that very heavy, intense bombing, children still kept hope because they thought maybe it’s...

Yemen: One in two children severely malnourished after 10 years of war

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·March 25, 2025·2 min read

“We need to move fast,” said UNICEF representative in the country Peter Hawkins. “I was in Hudaydah over the past three days…I went through the western lowlands, where there are people on the streets, on the side of the roads, begging and looking for assistance. They have given up. We...