Nov 07 In Gaza’s widening humanitarian crisis, water access becomes dire By Tim McPhillips, Yasmeen Sami Alamiri Getting clean water in Gaza has long been complicated, but since the Israel-Hamas war began last month, access has gone from tenuous to dire. Continue reading
Oct 29 Watch 3:24 How Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF is changing with the times By Ali Rogin, Claire Mufson, Azhar Merchant For generations of children across America, going trick-or-treating on Halloween has meant more than just collecting candy for themselves — it's also meant collecting coins for children in crisis around the world. Ali Rogin reports on how Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF… Continue watching
Oct 12 Over 90 percent of people killed by western Afghanistan quake were women and children, UN says By Riazat Butt, Associated Press The chief of the UNICEF field office in the province said Thursday that women and children were more likely to have been at home when the morning quake struck. Continue reading
Aug 25 Watch 4:20 News Wrap: Kremlin denies involvement in Prigozhin plane crash In our news wrap Friday, the Kremlin denied involvement in the plane crash that likely killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, all 19 people charged in Georgia's election interference case have now turned themselves in, storms in Michigan killed five people and left… Continue watching
Jun 08 Watch 7:31 UNICEF leader discusses the devastating impact wars are having on children By Amna Nawaz, Zeba Warsi A report released by the United Nations Children’s Fund contains an appalling statistic. Each day, 20 children are killed or maimed in conflicts around the world. Thousands more have been abducted, recruited into armed conflicts and subjected to sexual violence… Continue watching
Nov 23 UNICEF says the Dominican Republic has expelled 1,800 children back to Haiti By Megan Janetsky, Associated Press A U.N. agency says Dominican authorities have expelled at least 1,800 unaccompanied Haitian migrant children this year, sending them back to their crisis-stricken country. Continue reading
Jan 24 Afghanistan is in a humanitarian crisis. Here’s how you can help By Hannah Grabenstein Millions of Afghans are in crisis. Here are some ways to help. Continue reading
Aug 16 How to help Haitians after 7.2 magnitude earthquake By Chloe Jones Haiti was struck by an earthquake more powerful than the earthquake in 2010. As death and injury tolls rise, here is how you can help. Continue reading
Feb 24 Ghana becomes first country to receive coronavirus vaccines from COVAX program By Francis Kokutse, Carley Petesch, Associated Press The arrival of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the West African country marks the beginning of the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history, according to the World Health Organization and UNICEF. Continue reading
Jun 29 Hunger stalks children in Yemen as UN cuts aid programs By Issa Mohammed, Associated Press The U.N. children's agency warned about last week that millions of children in war-torn Yemen could be pushed to the brink of starvation as the coronavirus sweeps across the Arab world's poorest country. Continue reading