UNICEF's Ted Chaiban urged the international community to immediately scale up support for children and families to avert a deepening humanitarian catastrophe throughout the country.
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One year on from catastrophic floods, millions of children in Pakistan still need urgent support
UNICEF estimates there are still eight million people, about half of whom are children, who continue to live without access to safe water in flood-affected areas.
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Children in East Asia and the Pacific face the greatest exposure to multiple climate disasters
Children in the region face six times more climate related shocks compared to their grandparents eroding their coping capacity and exacerbating inequality.
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Over 7 million children remain malnourished across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia
Three years of drought have left over 1.9 million children at risk of dying from severe malnutrition as vulnerable communities have lost cattle, crops, and entire livelihoods.
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Global polycrisis creating uphill battle to end child marriage – UNICEF
Despite a steady decline in child marriage in the last decade, multiple crises including conflict, climate shocks, and the ongoing fallout from COVID-19 are threatening to reverse hard-earned gains.
More than 10 million people living in Pakistan’s flood-affected areas still lack access to safe drinking water
The floods damaged most of the water systems in affected areas, compelling people - including 2.5 million children - to solely rely on contaminated water from ponds and wells.
UN warns 25 million Nigerians at high risk of food insecurity in 2023
This is a projected increase from the estimated 17 million people now at risk. Continued conflict, climate change, inflation and rising food prices are key drivers of this alarming trend.
Up to four million children in Pakistan still living next to stagnant and contaminated floodwater
More than four months after the floods, acute respiratory infections among children have skyrocketed, while the number of children with malnutrition doubled between July and December, against 2021.
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More than 27 million children at risk as devastating floods set records across the world
A large majority of the children are at high risk of a multitude of threats, including death by drowning, disease, lack of safe drinking water, malnutrition, disruption in learning, and violence.
Schools for more than two million children in Pakistan remain inaccessible due to devastating floods
More than two months since the devastating floods engulfed large areas of Pakistan, the tops of school buildings are only just becoming visible in some of the flood-hit areas.
UNICEF concerned for children in the Philippines as cyclone Paeng/Nalgae strikes
UNICEF has prepositioned emergency supplies to respond to affected people’s needs for safe drinking water, sanitation, hygiene, medical supplies, nutrition, education, and child protection.
Cases of malnutrition escalate rapidly as lives of millions of children remain in jeopardy in Pakistan
In the aftermath of the devastating floods, health facilities are reporting alarming levels of severe acute malnutrition among children in affected areas, UNICEF warned today.
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UN report reveals staggering backsliding across women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health
Since the last Every Woman Every Child Progress Report in 2020, food insecurity, hunger, child marriage, risks from intimate partner violence, and adolescent depression and anxiety have all increased.
More than three million children at risk as devastating floods hit Pakistan
About 16 million children have been affected by this year’s heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan. In affected areas, 30 per cent of water systems are estimated to have been damaged.
Millions of children in flood-affected Bangladesh need food, clean water and protection
Since the floods started, UNICEF has delivered more than a million water purification tablets, thousands of water containers, dignity and hygiene kits, and therapeutic milk for affected families.
UNICEF provides emergency relief as 1.6 million children stranded by floods in Bangladesh
UNICEF has already dispatched 400,000 water purification tablets that can support 80,000 households with clean water for a week. UNICEF is also procuring emergency medicine for health facilities.
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UNICEF says a record 36.5 million children displaced worldwide
These figures do not include children displaced by climate and environmental shocks or disasters, as well as those newly displaced in 2022, including by the war in Ukraine.
More than 1.5 million children at risk as devastating floods hit north-east Bangladesh
Sylhet and Sunamganj have been most affected, with water flowing above dangerous levels. Agricultural land and critical infrastructure, including power stations and schools, have been submerged.
More than five million children face cholera and AWD in midst of COVID-19 as heavy rains hit Yemen
Heavy rains and flash floods have interrupted access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities and destroyed homes and displaced families, creating optimal conditions for the spread of diseases.
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UN agencies call for urgent action on climate change in southern Africa
If urgent humanitarian action is not taken, the number of food-insecure people will likely rise in the coming months, according to the Regional Interagency Standing Committee Africa.