Over 700,000 children across the Caribbean are estimated to be affected by Hurricane Melissa. In Jamaica, UNICEF is supporting the government to reach more than 284,000 children and address urgent needs related to nutrition, safe water, sanitation and hygiene, and mental health support. In Cuba, UNICEF and partners are providing hygiene kits, shelter supplies and school and recreation kits. In Haiti, UNICEF is deploying 2,900 hygiene and cash kits, while U-Reporters — a UNICEF-supported youth-led community — have been mobilized to spread awareness and support preparedness efforts. In the Dominican Republic, UNICEF and partners are delivering hygiene kits and providing health and nutrition services. Details on our response and urgent needs for children: https://lnkd.in/gT8mfSeP © UNICEF/UNI887428/Noel (Haiti) © UNICEF/UNI887331/Makyn AFP (Jamaica)
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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up.
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Thousands of people have fled Al Fasher, Sudan, amid escalating violence and are seeking refuge in Tawila. UNICEF and partners are in camps for the internally displaced in Tawila, helping construct sanitation facilities and distributing hygiene kits to children and families. Children need a ceasefire NOW. This violence must end.
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Thirty years after the Beijing Declaration, girls and women are still having to defend rights that should already be guaranteed: safety, equity and freedom from discrimination. Enough is enough. Across Europe and Central Asia, adolescent girls and young women are raising their voices alongside peers worldwide to demand urgent progress on six key actions. #GirlGoals
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Polio can cause irreversible paralysis and be fatal, but it can be prevented with safe and effective vaccines! Thanks to the polio vaccine, over 20 million people who would have otherwise been paralyzed are able to walk today. Governments must continue to invest in immunization so that no child suffers from a disease vaccines can prevent. #WorldPolioDay
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UNICEF is gravely concerned by the images and reports coming from Al Fasher, in the Darfur region of Sudan. The escalating violence has left thousands of children, already besieged for more than 500 days, further trapped amid relentless shelling, heavy fighting, and severe shortages of food, safe water, and medicine. "No child is safe,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. “While the full scale of the impact remains unclear due to widespread communications blackouts, the estimated 130,000 children in Al Fasher are at a high risk of grave rights violations, with reports of abduction, killing and maiming, and sexual violence.” There are also reports of humanitarian workers being detained or killed. UNICEF is calling for an immediate ceasefire to stop the violence, safe, unimpeded humanitarian access, the protection of civilians, especially children, and guaranteed safe passage for families seeking refuge, in line with international humanitarian law. Those responsible for violations must be held accountable.
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We are closer than ever to ending polio thanks to the vaccines that are protecting millions of children every year. But to prevent future polio outbreaks and #EndPolio for good, we must ensure that even in the hardest-to-reach areas, amid conflict or in fragile contexts, children have access to life-saving immunization services. #ForEveryChild, a healthy future. #WorldPolioDay
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In times of crisis, adolescent girls are often the most vulnerable, but UNICEF is committed to ensuring they're not left behind. This is how we're helping them build resilience and lead the change. #GirlGoals
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Movement. Resilience. Hope. These should not be threatened by diseases like polio. Olympic and World Figure Skating Champion and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Yuna Kim’s message is clear: we must vaccinate our children to #EndPolio forever.
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Children in Gaza are determined to get their education despite the immense devastation and loss they have experienced. Edouard Beigbeder from UNICEF Middle East and North Africaoutlines how UNICEF is supporting them through temporary learning centres and what is needed to restart education at scale.