UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and …
Luanda - More than 1.4 million people in Angola, including many children, have been affected by a "chronic drought" that has increased the risk of disease, a UN report said Wednesday. Seven southern regions of Angola are affected, with the three border provinces of Cunene, Namibe and Huila hit the …
One in four children in the Arab world live in poverty, often deprived of life's most basic necessities such as proper housing or safe water, according to a study released on Monday by the U.N. children's agency UNICEF. The analysis of 11 countries including Egypt, Iraq, Morocco and Yemen found …
Five months into 2017, there is still no budget or funding for 2.5 million Severely Acute Malnourished (SAM) children in the country. And like in previous years, about 500,000 of them risk death before year end according to a recent report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). At the …
The projected number of children expected to suffer has skyrocketed, doubling since January of this year. The country's combination of drought, dislocation, and disease is proving fatal for children. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced in a statement on Tuesday that the number of children projected to suffer from acute …
The 2016 South Africa Demographic and Health Survey (SADHS 2016) is the third DHS survey to be conducted in South Africa in collaboration with the worldwide Demographic and Health Survey Program. A nationally representative sample of over 15,000 dwelling units was selected, and among the approximately 13,000 occupied households, trained …
Even though billions of doses of vaccines for children across 100 countries around the world were supplied in 2016, millions of children " especially those in conflict zones " still miss out on life-saving inoculations, the United Nations Children"s Fund (UNICEF) has warned. "All children, no matter where they live …
NEW YORK, April 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Saudi Arabian charitable foundation said on Monday it will give $50 million to the United Nations children's agency to help eliminate measles, the largest private donation ever to UNICEF's efforts. The donation by Riyadh-based Alwaleed Philanthropies comes amid rising concern about …
UNITED NATIONS New York (Xinhua) -- Nearly 1.4 million children are at the risk of starvation in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen with famine looming, said the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Tuesday, calling for 255 million U.S. dollars to help relieve the situation. UNICEF warned that the risk …
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday that Boko Haram terrorists have destroyed 75 percent of the water infrastructure in the Northeast Nigeria. UNICEF Director of Emergency Programmes, Manuel Fontaine, also said that 3.8 million people in the northeast are currently threatened by lack of water. “In northeast …
New York/Dakar/Nairobi/Amman — Water shortages, inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene practices and disease outbreaks are posing an additional threat to severely malnourished children in northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, UNICEF said today. Across the four famine-threatened countries, nearly 27 million people are reliant on unsafe water which, for malnourished …
Severe malnutrition may claim the lives of 1.4 million children from Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen this year if urgent steps are not taken. As violence, hunger and thirst continue to force people to move within and across borders, malnutrition rates, as stated by the United Nations Children’s Fund …
Since famine was declared in parts of South Sudan a month ago, the United Nations children’s fund, UNICEF and partners have provided live-saving assistance to more than 145,000 people. Among the 145,000 people, there were 33,000 children under the age of five, UNICEF said on Monday in a statement. “With …
Nairobi — The onset of a severe drought in 2016 has hit arid and semi-arid regions in Kenya, affecting over 2.7 million people. UNICEF is supporting the Government of Kenya in initiating and implementing emergency response efforts by delivering life-saving assistance to affected households, strengthening coordination activities, assisting in monitoring …
The court urged bigger NGOs such as Tata Trust and others to come forward with suggestions, expertise and financial assistance. The Bombay High Court Wednesday, while conducting a special hearing on the issue of malnutrition deaths in Maharashtra with various government departments, invited Tata Trust as well as several corporate …
As a result of the drought, a total of 174,000 children are not attending school in the affected counties, and 1,274 schools have no access to water, affecting 246,000 children. Highlights About 2.7 million people in Kenya are now in need of relief assistance, up from 1.3 million in August …
The United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan said Monday that 100,000 people “are already starving” in the country. In some areas in Unity state, in the north of the country, more than 30% of the population are suffering acute malnutrition. U.N. humanitarian agencies warned that 275,000 children …
Almost 1.4 million children suffering from severe malnutrition could die this year from famine in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, the UN children's agency said Monday, February 20, according to AFP. In Yemen, where war has been raging for nearly two years, 462,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition …
A famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan, the first to be announced in any part of the world in six years. The government and the United Nations report that some 100,000 people are facing starvation, with a million more on the brink of famine. A combination of …
Slumped in his mother's lap in a health clinic in northeast Nigeria, three-year-old Hassan was too drained to cry or protest as the nurse wrapped a tape measure tightly around his arm. After weeks of fever, vomiting and diarrhoea - telltale signs of malnutrition - his gaunt face and glazed …
With 2,300 children below five years of age and 145 child-bearing women dying every day, Nigeria has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world, it was learnt yesterday. Citing the report of the United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF), the Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Lanre Tejuosho, at …
