Latest United Nations Children's Fund News
Water guns are in full blast to mark Thai New Year festivities despite worries about heat wave
It's water festival time in Thailand where many are marking the country's traditional New Year, splashing each other with colorful water guns and buckets in an often raucous celebration that draws thousands of people, even as this year the Southeast Asian nation marks record-high temperatures...
Hunger deepens as relentless gang violence targets Haiti's capital
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gangs have intensified their rampage in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital, setting fire to a school and looting pharmacies across the road from the country’s largest public hospital. The attacks that began Monday and continued into early Tuesday...
Looting is on the rise in Haiti. Among the victims: UNICEF and Guatemala's consul
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — As Haiti once again spirals into chaos with another wave of gang violence, a number of government and aid agencies reported Saturday that their facilities and aid supplies have been looted. Gangs have raged through Haiti in recent weeks, attacking key...
UNICEF: 230 million females are circumcised globally, 30 million more than in 2016
CAIRO (AP) — Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations children's agency. In the last eight years, some 30 million people have undergone the procedure, in...
Women's tennis tour and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will work to support prenatal care
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The charitable wing of the women's professional tennis tour and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have started a joint effort to provide prenatal vitamins to 1 million women in low- and middle-income countries. The Women Change the Game campaign —...
Diapers and baby formula are hard to find in Gaza, leaving parents desperate
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Zainab al-Zein was forced to make a desperate decision: Feed her infant daughter solid foods that her tiny body may not be able to digest or watch her starve because of a lack of baby formula in the besieged Gaza Strip. Al-Zein chose to give 2...
