![On 25 September, [NAMES CHANGED] (foreground, left-right) siblings Awa, 3, and Amadou, 4, pretend to talk on toy mobile telephones, at home in a village on the outskirts of the city of Kenema in Eastern Province. Many of the people in the village are affected by Ebola. Olematu and Ibrahim are being cared for by their 15-year-old sister, Betty, with help from a neighbour, following the death of their mother from Ebola one month ago. Betty is a survivor of the virus. An estimated 1,131 children in Sierra Leone are affected by Ebola virus disease. UNICEF/UNI172461/Bindra](https://www.unicef.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/media-1500x900.jpg)
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19 September 2024 – “I know we are all concerned with situation involving Lebanon and Israel and the Secretary General has urged all concerned to exercise maximum restraint to avert any further escalation and any further escalation would be terrible in terms of consequences for children.
BANGKOK, 18 September 2024 – Floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Yagi have ravaged Viet Nam, Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand, affecting nearly 6 million children and compromising their access to clean water, education, healthcare, food, and shelter—pushing already marginalized communities deeper into crisis.
BUJUMBURA, 17 September 2024 – School-age children between 5 and 19 years old now account for 33 per cent of mpox cases in Burundi, presenting a new challenge as families prepare for the upcoming school year.
NEW YORK, 16 September 2024 – UNICEF has launched an appeal for US$58.8 million to address the rising mpox crisis across six African countries where children are most affected.
Monday 16 September – The UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) is pleased to announce the appointments of Louise Lane as Chief Marketing Officer and Ben Ramalingam as Chief Strategic Development Officer of the charity, as Dr Philip Goodwin begins as Chief Executive today.
DAKAR, 12 September 2024 – Severe flooding across West and Central Africa has hit an estimated 4 million people so far this year, many of them children, displacing at least 500,000 people and destroying more than 300,000 homes.
LES CAYES, Haiti – 11 September 2024 – The education of over 100,000 school-aged children displaced in Haiti’s Grand South is in jeopardy as the continued surge of violence, particularly in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas, has put immense pressure on local communities and their already fragile social services.
Children now represent one in four migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean, and, just like all children, they have the right to be protected and to be with their families.
KYIV, 6 September 2024 – “This week marked the start of a new school year for children across Ukraine. Seven-year-old Emilia was one of them. Tragically she didn’t make it back for the third day.
ROME, 4 September 2024 – “Three children are reportedly among some 20 people who have died in yet another tragic shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa. Our deepest sympathies go out to their families.
Research from the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) finds that 62% of parents of children aged 0-4 years think that childcare is one of the biggest challenges facing families with young children today. The YouGov survey found that 44% of parents said they worry about childcare ‘a lot’ or ‘all of the time’, and 21% said they worried about their child’s readiness to start school. Families on lower incomes (£19,999 or below a year) were more than twice as likely (38%) to be worrying ‘all’ or ‘a lot of the time’ about school readiness when compared to higher earners (14%), households of £60,000 or more a year.
Anna Kettley, Deputy Executive Director of the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK), said: "We are deeply saddened to learn that children were amongst those that lost their lives in the Channel today.
BANGKOK, 3 September 2024 – More than 800,000 children and 120,000 pregnant women will be vaccinated in a nationwide campaign launched on Monday by the Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) with UNICEF support.
DHAKA, 30 August 2024 – Over two million children in eastern Bangladesh are at risk as floods sweep through homes, schools and villages, UNICEF has warned. In all, these floods, the worst in eastern Bangladesh in 34 years, have affected 5.6 million people.
DHAKA, 30 August 2024 – Over two million children in eastern Bangladesh are at risk as floods sweep through homes, schools and villages, UNICEF has warned. In all, these floods, the worst in eastern Bangladesh in 34 years, have affected 5.6 million people.
24 August 2024 - Seven years after hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people fled violence and persecution in Myanmar, conflict continues to intensify in Rakhine State, on the western coast of Myanmar, with a surge in casualties and displacement in Maungdaw Township and reports of increasing numbers of people seeking shelter and protection in Bangladesh.
