NEW DELHI: India has emerged as a key contributor to global progress in reducing child mortality, according to the latest United Nations report. The UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality ...

Figures from the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Ubos) indicate that over 12 percent of households are headed by children and youth aged 15-24, as the country struggles with a rising number of orphans.

An estimated 4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2024, as progress in reducing child mortality slowed sharply, according to a UN report released.

UNICEF on Wednesday said it was launching an investigation into Israel’s allegation that tobacco products were smuggled into Gaza in one of the U.N. agency’s aid shipments ...

A UN report reveals 4.9 million children died before age 5 in 2024 as global progress in reducing child mortality slows sharply.

War in Lebanon has wounded or killed the equivalent of one classroom of children daily ​and robbed the remainder of their ...

About 4.9 million children died before reaching their fifth birthday in 2024, according ‌to new United Nations estimates, a ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called on government authorities to urgently upgrade public schools across Nigeria in order to salvage and restore the declining standard of education ...

Andrés Kragelund, UNICEF USA Senior Director of Global Programs, on mobilizing support for UNICEF emergency humanitarian action for children in crisis.

SAN JUAN – The recruitment of children by armed groups in Haiti tripled last year as poverty and violence deepens across the troubled Caribbean country, according to a new UNICEF report released ...

A child sleeps at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph) (Odelyn Joseph ...