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New Guidance: 10 Steps to Successful Breastfeeding

New Guidance: 10 Steps to Successful Breastfeeding

WHO and UNICEF issued Wednesday new ten-step guidance to increase support for breastfeeding in health facilities that provide maternity and newborn services. Breastfeeding all babies for the first 2 years would save the lives of more than 820 000 children under age 5 annually. The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding…
Maximum Number of Children Born in India on New Year’s Day

Maximum Number of Children Born in India on New Year’s Day

Approximately 386,000 babies were born on New Year’s Day, UNICEF said. Of these, over 90 per were born in less developed regions. Kiribati’s Christmas Island in the Pacific got 2018’s first baby; the United States, its last. Globally, over half of these births are estimated to take place in nine…
100,000 Children Threatened As Conflict Escalates in West Mosul

100,000 Children Threatened As Conflict Escalates in West Mosul

There are alarming reports of civilians including several children being killed in west Mosul. Some were reportedly killed as they desperately tried to flee the fighting which is intensifying by the hour. “Children’s lives are on the line. Children are being killed, injured and used as human shields,” said Peter…
New EU Policy to Protect Migrant and Refugee Children

New EU Policy to Protect Migrant and Refugee Children

UNICEF and UNHCR welcomed Wednesday a new policy guidance from the European Commission as an important milestone for the protection of migrant and refugee children. “It is the first EU policy to address the situation and rights of all children in migration – refugee and migrant children, children alone and…
Polio Immunization Campaign Reaches 5 Million Children in Yemen

Polio Immunization Campaign Reaches 5 Million Children in Yemen

Amid escalating violence, UNICEF and partners have completed the first round of a nationwide door-to-door vaccination campaign reaching 5 million children under the age of five with oral polio vaccine and vitamin A supplementation. In the first campaign of its kind this year, 40,000 vaccinators spread across Yemen to provide…
Actor Orlando Bloom Meets Displaced Children in Niger

Actor Orlando Bloom Meets Displaced Children in Niger

English actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom this week travelled to Diffa, south-east Niger, to highlight the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Lake Chad Basin where Boko Haram violence has caused huge population displacements. Hundreds of thousands of children across the region have been forced from their homes, are…
Schools Closed as Ukraine Violence Intensifies

Schools Closed as Ukraine Violence Intensifies

Following intense fighting over the last couple of days around the town of Avdiivka, Donetsk region, more than 17,000 people – including 2,500 children – are facing freezing weather without any heating, electricity or water. UNICEF reports that six schools and four kindergartens have also closed in the area due…