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Children in Lebanon are at growing risk of health and protection issues – including waterborne diseases like cholera, hepatitis and diarrhoea – as the continued bombardment of the country increasingly disrupts and damages essential services that families rely on.

UNICEF is providing 167 metric tons of medical supplies for about 2 million people affected by the rapidly escalating conflict in Lebanon, especially women and children.

 At least 13 children were reportedly killed and another 4 injured in airstrikes in Al Kuma, in Sudan’s North Darfur State on Friday. The children who were killed were between the ages of 6 and 17.

International Children's Rights Day on 20 November provides an important platform for drawing attention to children's rights worldwide. This year, the Swiss Children's Rights Network and UNICEF Switzerland and Liechtenstein have developed a new, freely usable label to make the numerous activities surrounding this day more visible.

Between September 23 and 26, over 300 representatives from ‘Child Friendly Cities’ (CFC) and various UNICEF representatives met in Jinan, China for the second regional meeting between Asian and European cities.

UNICEF scales up efforts to address mpox as children head back to school across the country.

Super Typhoon Yagi – the strongest storm in the region in decades – made landfall in northern Vietnam and caused catastrophic damage. Millions of children and their families are at risk.

UNICEF today announced that it has issued an emergency tender for the procurement of mpox vaccines.

On Wednesday, several children were injured and killed in various attacks in the city of El Obeid in the state of Kordofan, Sudan.

Eight countries, including Mali, Niger, Senegal, South Sudan and Sudan, are home to children who spend more than half the year in temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius.