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More than 29 million babies born into conflict in 2018
Armed violence across the world meant that more than one in five babies often spent their earliest moments in deeply unsafe and highly stressful environments.
Humanitarian aid to cost US$20 billion per year by 2030 in a warmer world
A new report by the IFRC estimates that by 2050 the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance as a result of climate-related disasters could climb beyond 200 million annually compared to an estimated 108 million today.
UNICEF giving more than 300,000 Venezuelan children tools to help keep them in school
Over the coming 12 months, UNICEF, in tandem with national partners, plans to reach a total of 1.2 million children in public and subsidized schools across the country with educational supplies.
World at risk of pandemics, warns global monitoring board
The world is not prepared. There is a very real threat of a rapidly moving, highly lethal pandemic of a respiratory pathogen killing 50 to 80 million people, says panel on its first report.














