Syria. Three children fill a container with water. UNICEF/UN0398428/Chnkdji, A grim milestone for Syria’s children, After 10 years of conflict, the situation for many children across Syria has never been worse. Children and their rights are undermined on a daily basis – through continuing violence and grave rights violations, rising food insecurity and a tumbling economy. Nearly 90 per cent of children are in need of humanitarian assistance , a 20 per cent…, Crisis in Syria: What you need to know, What is happening in the Syrian Arab Republic? Ten years of humanitarian crisis and hostilities has had a profound impact on the situation of children in Syria, across the region and beyond. Every Syrian child has been impacted by the violence, displacement, severed family ties and lack of access to vital services caused by massive physical…, Syrian crisis snapshot, Recent Syria news and features, What UNICEF is doing in Syria, UNICEF and partners are on the ground in Syria and across the region working to protect children, to help them cope with the impact of conflict and to resume their childhoods. This includes improving access to education and psychosocial support services to help children and caregivers to recover from trauma and to restore a sense of normalcy.…, Results for children in Syria, In 2020, UNICEF and partners:, Donate now to help save and change children’s lives, More resources

Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Ted Chaiban and UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia and Special Coordinator for the Refugee Migrant Response in Europe Afshan Khan,  , AMMAN/GENEVA, 30 April 2021 –, “This week, 125 children, including 114 unaccompanied children, were rescued at sea, off the coast of Libya. “The Central Mediterranean continues to be one of the deadliest and most dangerous migration routes in the world. At least 350 people, including children and women, have drowned or gone missing in the Central Mediterranean while trying to…, “, We call on the Libyan, authorities to release all children and end immigration detention. The detention, of children in migration contexts is never in the best interest of children. We call on authorities in Europe on the Central Mediterranean to support and receive migrants and refugees coming to their shores and to strengthen search and rescue mechanisms.    “With partners, UNICEF is committed to support all governments across the Central…, Key Figures, As of 31 March, a total of 4,005 migrants and refugees have been registered as rescued/intercepted by the Libyan Coast Guard and returned to Libya to detention centres. So far this year, more than 8,600 migrants have arrived in European ports via the Central Mediterranean, one in five are children.

Situation reports are the main reporting tool to monitor UNICEF’s humanitarian response. They provide an update on the situation and needs of children in a country or region, as well as information on UNICEF’s response and funding requirements.    Download file (PDF, 897,39 KB)

DJIBOUTI CITY, Djibouti, April 14, 2021 - ,  IOM, the International Organization for Migration, and UNICEF, have confirmed that at least 16 children and 27 adults have died after a migrant ship controlled by people smugglers capsized off the coast of Djibouti in the early hours of Monday morning, April 12. The vessel was packed with at least 60 migrants trying to return home to the Horn of…

UNICEF is working with partners to help children like Junaid recover from a devastating fire

DHAKA, 22 March 2021, – “UNICEF expresses its deepest sympathy to the Rohingya refugees affected by the fire in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The fire has already caused enormous devastation, spreading rapidly through refugee camps and displacing thousands of people. While large-scale evacuations have taken place, the full extent of the disaster is yet…, #####, Notes to Editors The Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar is one of the largest refugee settlements in the world, hosting over 877,000 refugees, over half of whom are children. Over 725,000 Rohingya refugees fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh in August 2017 following a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.

What is the Rohingya crisis?  When hundreds of thousands of terrified Rohingya refugees began flooding onto the beaches and paddy fields of southern Bangladesh in August 2017, it was the children who caught many people’s attention. As the refugees – almost 60 per cent of whom were children – poured across the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh,…, Crisis snapshot, Our Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore recently visited the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh. It is home to a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar – more than half are children., Recent Rohingya crisis news and features, What UNICEF is doing, UNICEF is on the ground working to help deliver life-saving supplies and services for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.  Working with the government and partners, UNICEF is helping provide water and sanitation, including the establishment of diarrhoeal treatment centres, health services for children and pregnant women; support for access to quality…, Read UNICEF’s 2021 Humanitarian Action for Children appeals for Bangladesh and Myanmar ., Results for children, In 2020, UNICEF and partners:, Donate now to help save and change children’s lives, More resources

Children without a nationality have limited access to basic rights

This “best practices” guide was developed as part of UNICEF’s initiative to build the capacity of organizational leaders, field staff and volunteers who support the mental health and psychosocial needs of refugee and migrant children and their families at the border of the United States and Mexico. It describes key principles, appropriate…

NEW YORK, 18 December 2020, – In countries around the world, migrant and displaced children have been largely excluded from national response and recovery plans to the COVID-19 pandemic and have experienced a significant reduction in access to essential services and care, UNICEF announced today. These findings are based on data collected through a recent UNICEF survey of 159…