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24 July 2024
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell's statement following her trip to Vanuatu and Fiji
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9 July 2024
On 8 July 2024, a missile strike kills 150 people at Okhmatdyt Hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, the country’s largest medical center for children
5 July 2024
UNICEF and partners have pre-positioned life-saving supplies and stand ready to provide services to children and families in several countries
3 July 2024
As UNICEF Aotearoa New Zealand celebrates 50 years of positive impact on the rights and wellbeing of children, we are looking to the future with some changes to our governance team, balancing experience and tenure with fresh perspectives and capabilities.
26 June 2024
More than 400 children reportedly killed or injured in Sudan’s El Fasher in past seven weeks while hunger continues to haunt the country’s children
24 June 2024
The inaugural session of a new Parliamentary Forum for Children’s Rights held at the Beehive and led by our Young Ambassadors, provided young people with the chance to speak directly to New Zealand’s decision-makers.
14 June 2024
“Today marks a sad and sobering milestone: 1,000 days since the announcement banning girls in Afghanistan from attending secondary schools. 1,000 days out-of-school amounts to 3 billion learning hours lost," Catherine Russell, UNICEF's Executive Director.
7 June 2024
UNICEF Aotearoa invites Government to include missing youth engagement in next Budget.
13 May 2024
Flash floods in northeastern Afghanistan have reportedly killed at least 240 people, including 51 children, with many more injured. These figures are expected to increase as additional reports come in.
10 May 2024
Displaced people are subject to even greater risk of disease, infections, malnutrition, dehydration and other protection and health concerns.
8 May 2024
“Every warning. Every story of children killed and wounded. Every image of heartbreak and bloodshed. Every mind-boggling piece of data on the number of children and mothers killed; of homes and hospitals destroyed. All Ignored..."
7 May 2024
With hundreds of thousands of children in Rafah injured, sick, malnourished, traumatized or living with a disability, UNICEF calls for children to not be forcibly relocated, and the vital infrastructure on which children rely to be protected.
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