Today we are facing unprecedented challenges, but we also have a unique opportunity to create a better world. Nearly 1 billion children worldwide are growing up in countries exposed to the negative ...

More school-age children and adolescents are now obese than underweight, a new report from the United Nations’ children’s agency, UNICEF, has revealed, with 188 million young people affected. Obesity ...

In July this year, I spent a week in Haiti, together with counterparts from the United Nations Children's Fund and the European Union Humanitarian Aid Department, in an effort to gain a clearer ...

A record number of unaccompanied migrant minors have traveled through Latin America and the Caribbean this year, according to estimates from UNICEF, the United Nations children's agency. Some 3,800 ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — At least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted last year because of heatwaves, cyclones, flooding and other extreme weather, the United ...

This week, the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund told global leaders that Sudan’s humanitarian crisis is the world’s biggest and most devastating. A new UNICEF report says 30 million people ...

Five million children across Sudan's Darfur region are facing extreme deprivation, the United Nations children's agency said ...