Dec 22 Watch 4:43 Are presidential candidates listening to what young people want? President Trump on Saturday spoke to a group of young conservatives, calling them “fearless young leaders.” And while there are young people engaged and active in politics, a recent Harris poll commissioned by UNICEF USA of 8- to 17-year-olds found… Continue watching
May 03 More than 1 million children affected by Mozambique cyclones By Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press For the first time in recorded history, Mozambique has been hit by two cyclones in a single season. Continue reading
Aug 24 One year later, Rohingya refugees want statehood and justice By Larisa Epatko “I want justice. That’s all they kept saying, ‘I want justice,'" said Caryl Stern, president and CEO of UNICEF USA, who recently visited the camps. Continue reading
Aug 15 What happens when migrant children are deported home By Joshua Barajas Central American migrant children face intensified violence and poverty when they're deported back to their home countries, according to a new UNICEF report released today. Continue reading
Feb 27 Watch 5:56 School children are targets in the war in Eastern Ukraine By PBS News Hour In Eastern Ukraine, children still go to school and play, but the intrusion of violence into their everyday lives has made them the vulnerable victims of a war that's about to enter its fourth year. Special correspondent Sebastian Meyer went… Continue watching
Feb 20 98 dead in assault on rebel-held Damascus suburb By Bassem Mroue, Associated Press Intense Syrian government shelling and airstrikes on rebel-held Damascus suburbs killed at least 98 people in what was the deadliest day in the area in three years, a monitoring group and paramedics said Tuesday. Continue reading
Aug 23 Boko Haram has used 83 children as human bombs so far this year By Synclaire Cruel The radical militant group Boko Haram has already used four times as many child suicide bombers in northeast Nigeria this year than it did in 2016, the United Nations Children’s Fund reported Tuesday. Continue reading
Aug 04 PHOTOS: How aid groups are tackling Yemen’s cholera outbreak By Larisa Epatko “At one hospital, we visited children who can barely gather the strength to breathe,” U.N. agency leaders said in a joint statement. Continue reading
Jun 06 Watch 7:14 Will one company’s mixed mission in Yemen sow suspicion of aid groups? By PBS News Hour For aid organizations, especially those in conflict zones, remaining politically neutral is crucial for trust. A New York Times investigation found that the conduct of a logistics company could drive suspicion that aid groups in Yemen were somehow acting as… Continue watching
May 21 Number of unaccompanied child migrants surged in recent years By Michael D. Regan More than 300,000 children have been discovered unaccompanied in recent years, up from 66,000 children in 2010 and 2011, according to a UNICEF report. Continue reading