Around one in seven children and adolescents aged 10 to 19 are affected by mental health conditions – with anxiety, depression and behavioural disorders among the most common, according to a new World Health Organization and UN Children’s Fund report released on Wednesday.
The brutal war in Sudan continues to affect children across the country, including in North Darfur where there has been a sharp escalation in fighting.
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that at least 150 boys and girls have been killed in Darfur since April, and many more injured, in ferocious fighting between the Sudanese Army and rival paramilitary Rapid Security Forces (RSF) who have been locked in conflict for nearly 18 months.
One in five children – or 466 million – live in areas that experience at least double the number of extremely hot days every year compared with their grandparents’ generation, according to a new UNICEF analysis released on Wednesday.
A UN-backed global fund that supports education in emergencies will provide $2.5 million to ensure that thousands of children affected by gang violence in Haiti can attend school in safety.
Amidst the rapidly deteriorating security situation in the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine, UN agencies are helping local authorities to evacuate thousands of people from border areas with Russia.
Nearly 2,000 children in Ukraine have lost their lives or been wounded amidst ongoing and escalating war, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday, citing UN-verified data.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased obesity in school-aged children in Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) office for the region said in a new report issued on Wednesday, sounding the alarm for action.
