
The Afghanistan-Pakistan region is considered to be the last frontier for efforts to eradicate naturally-occurring polio cases, and the Taliban, a terrorist group that operates in both countries, has joined the final fight against the crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease.
by Edwin Mora16 Dec 2015, 8:28 PM PST0

In a video for UNICEF, pop superstar Katy Perry poses as a weatherwoman to deliver a report calling for climate change action “to change the forecast for children.”
by Daniel Nussbaum7 Dec 2015, 9:58 AM PST0

At least 398 children have been killed and more than 605 maimed since the “brutal armed conflict” in Yemen escalated on March 26, reported the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF on Wednesday.
by Edwin Mora19 Aug 2015, 8:40 PM PST0

The latest report from the United Nations on South Sudan states the armed forces raped and burned females alive. The world’s newest country is still in a civil war.
by Mary Chastain1 Jul 2015, 2:50 PM PST0

According to Anthony Lake, the executive director of The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), children in South Sudan face brutal violence in their everyday lives as the world’s newest country continues to fight a civil war.
by Mary Chastain22 Jun 2015, 8:28 PM PST0

“Children are not instigating these suicide attacks; they are used intentionally by adults in the most horrific way,” explained Jean Gough, the UNICEF Representative in Nigeria. “They are first and foremost victims – not perpetrators.”
by Mary Chastain27 May 2015, 11:40 AM PST0

Al-Shabaab, the Somali terror gang currently aligned with al-Qaeda but increasingly believed to be tied to the Islamic State, attacked a minivan full of United Nations staff with a bomb this weekend. According to the UK Guardian, there were nine fatalities, including four representatives from UNICEF, the fabled United Nation’s children’s fund.
by John Hayward20 Apr 2015, 12:41 PM PST0

Nigeria’s jihadist group Boko Haram has forced nearly one million children to flee their homes and killed hundreds more, according to a new UN report.
by Edwin Mora13 Apr 2015, 2:40 PM PST0

Nearly a third of fighters participating in Yemen’s armed conflict are children who are experiencing chronic malnutrition, a United Nations official told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
by Edwin Mora11 Apr 2015, 8:45 AM PST0

In the past five years, Boko Haram has forced over 1.6 million people to flee Nigeria — and, increasingly, border areas of Cameroon — due to numerous attacks intended to expand their “caliphate.” The Muslim group recently attacked Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State and the largest city in the northeast.
by Mary Chastain25 Jan 2015, 1:59 PM PST0

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is reporting that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has shut down more schools in Syria, leaving over 670,000 children without access to education.
by Mary Chastain7 Jan 2015, 8:11 AM PST0