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One week on from devastating earthquakes, millions of children remain in need of urgent humanitarian assistance
NEW YORK/AMMAN/GENEVA, 13 February 2023 – , Seven days after two devastating earthquakes and more than 1,600 aftershocks hit south-east Türkiye and Syria – causing widespread destruction and taking the lives of thousands of people – UNICEF is warning that millions of children are in need of urgent humanitarian sup...
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Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on latest school attack in Luhansk, Ukraine
NEW YORK, 8 May 2022 –, “UNICEF strongly condemns yet another attack on a school in Ukraine amid reports that civilians, including children, had sought shelter in the school’s bunker. “We do not yet know how many children might have been killed or injured in the reported bombing, but we fear this attack has just added to the hundreds of children who have already lost…
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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom in Moldova to meet refugee children fleeing Ukraine war
CHIȘINĂU/NEW YORK, 25 March 2022 –, One month since the start of the war in Ukraine, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom has visited Moldova to meet children and families fleeing Ukraine as refugees. During the two-day trip, Bloom visited a UNICEF-supported “Blue Dot” space in Palanca, south-west Moldova, whe...
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Stop attacks on health care in Ukraine
NEW YORK/GENEVA, 13 March 2022 –, “Today, we call for an immediate cessation of all attacks on health care in Ukraine. These horrific attacks are killing and causing serious injuries to patients and health workers, destroying vital health infrastructure and forcing thousands to forgo accessing health services des...
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Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on reported attack against maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine
NEW YORK, 9 March 2022, – “I am horrified by the reported attack today on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine – an attack which reportedly left young children and women in labor buried beneath the rubble of destroyed buildings. We do not yet know the number of casualties but fear the worst. “This attack, if...
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Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell calling for a suspension of hostilities to carry out urgent humanitarian action in Ukraine
NEW YORK, 28 February 2022 –, “The situation for children caught up in the conflict in Ukraine grows worse by the minute. “We are receiving reports of hospitals, schools, water and sanitation facilities and orphanages under fire. Explosive weapons in populated areas and explosive remnants of war are real and pres...
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Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine M. Russell on children in Ukraine
NEW YORK, 24 February 2022, – “UNICEF is deeply concerned that intensifying hostilities in Ukraine pose an immediate threat to the lives and wellbeing of the country’s 7.5 million children. Heavy weapons fire along the line of contact has already damaged critical water infrastructure and education facilities in recent days. Unless the fighting subsides, tens of thousands of…