text

Half of world's children facing extreme effects of climate change

Click arrows to view gallery Nearly half of the 2.2 billion children in the world live in countries that face extremely high risk from the impacts of climate change, f

text

Over 168M children worldwide have missed school for nearly a year

02:01 More than 168 million children around the world have been kept out of school for almost a year due to COVID-19 lockdowns, according to new data from the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF

text

“Pandemic Classroom” illustrates how COVID-19 kept classrooms empty

01:43 More than 168 million children around the world have been kept out of school for almost a year due to COVID-19 lockdowns, according to new data from the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF

text

Ghana becomes first country to receive COVID vaccines from COVAX

02:17 Ghana on Wednesday became the first nation to receive coronavirus vaccines via the United Nations-backed COVAX finitiative.UNICEF procured and delivered 600,000 doses of the Astr

text

Child marriages spike during COVID-19 pandemic

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, a staggering rise in child marriages have spread through India. UNICEF estimates that at least 1.5 million girls under the age of 18 are married in t

text

Coronavirus outbreak: UN aid reaches Wuhan

00:21 Much-needed medical supplies arrived in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, on Thursday. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said its first batch of masks and hazmat s