Children

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FROM THE FIELD: ‘Miraculous’ music made by hearing-impaired children

4 January 2019
Migrants and Refugees

A group of deaf and hard-of-hearing Syrian refugee and local Lebanese children have sung in a choir in Beirut giving a performance that was “nothing short of miraculous,” according to conductor Pascal Khairallah.

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On the first day of 2019, over 395,000 babies to be born worldwide: UNICEF

1 January 2019
Health

As the calendar flips to 2019, about 395,072 babies will be born around the world, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, adding that a quarter will be born in South Asia alone.

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One small flight for a drone, one ‘big leap’ for global health

18 December 2018
Health

On a small island in the remote South Pacific, a one-month-old baby has become the world’s first child to be given a vaccine delivered by a drone, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced.

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Four million Syrian children have only known war since birth: UNICEF

13 December 2018
Peace and Security

Half of Syria’s children, that’s four million, have grown up only knowing a life of violence, as the war-battered country enters its eighth year of conflict, the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday.

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Suffering of thousands of war-affected Syrian children ‘unprecedented and unacceptable’

27 November 2018
Peace and Security

Well over 7,000 child casualties in Syria’s brutal armed conflict have been verified over the last five years, but this is just “the tip of the iceberg,” the United Nations Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the crisis lamented on Tuesday, with thousands more cases likely going unreported.

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‘Dire consequences’ for a million children in the Middle East, North Africa, as funding dwindles

27 November 2018
Humanitarian Aid

Amidst a $33 million funding shortfall, plunging temperatures in the Middle East and North Africa pose a major threat to children in the region, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.

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Millie Bobby Brown leading youth to #GoBlue as new UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador

20 November 2018
General News

On this World Children’s Day, when kids across the globe unite for their rights, Emmy-Nominated actress Millie Bobby Brown has been named the newest

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FROM THE FIELD: Children in Lake Chad Basin attend school with help from UN-backed fund

20 November 2018
Culture and Education

Some 3.5 million children living in the Lake Chad Basin in Africa’s Sahel region do not have access to education according to the UN-backed Education Cannot Wait fund.

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World Children’s Day: Millie Bobby Brown to #GoBlue as new UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador

20 November 2018
Women

On this World Children’s Day, when kids across the globe unite for their rights, Emmy-Nominated actress Millie Bobby Brown has been named the newest United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador.

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Conflict and inequality shape children’s lives in Iraq; UNICEF urges ‘right policies’ for protection

19 November 2018
Human Rights

Conflict and inequality remain the defining features of children being raised in Iraq today, according to the first comprehensive survey conducted by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in seven years.