UNICEF urges Uganda to step up fight against measles outbreaks. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has called on Uganda to intensify efforts to curb the ongoing measles outbreaks affecting ...

Bruno Lemarquis, acting head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Prime Minister Kim Min-seok is visiting the United States and Switzerland from the 12th to the 19th to promote South Korea’s bid to host the ‘UN Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hub’ (tentative name), ...

Children living through the latest war in the Middle East or seeing images of the conflict may need help making sense of events that ...

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day throughout the Bay Area with parades, pub crawls, live music, runs and family-friendly festivities happening before, on and after March 17.

UNICEF warned that the violence is another stark example of how the deteriorating security situation in South Sudan continues ...

Global adoptions to the US have become complex over the decades. As an adoptee herself, Maria Noble Valdez delves into the nuances of the adoption process for The World.

Hanging over Monday's meeting was what Iranian state media say was an airstrike that hit a girls' school, killing at least ...

The Tawila camp for internally displaced in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region is home to more than half a million people who live in makeshift huts of sticks, hay and plastic sheeting. Some families have ...

Earlier this week, ahead of the 20th annual UNICEF Gala, presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman was announced as the organization’s newest ambassador. Her post comes after years of support for ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A Sudanese child who fled el-Fasher city with ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On Global Handwashing Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF launched the first global guidelines for hand hygiene in community settings — a ...