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As airstrikes and conflict continue to devastate communities across Ukraine, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, is raising urgent concerns about the mental health and well-being of the country’s children.Kenan Madi, Chief of Field Operations for UNICEF in Ukraine, warns that the war is leaving thousands of children without homes, heat, power, or access to basic services, making everyday life “extremely difficult.”Education has also been severely disrupted.Despite ongoing efforts, UNICEF’s appeal for Ukraine remains only partially funded, leaving millions of children at risk as another harsh winter looms.UN News’s Nargiz Shekinskaya started by asking Mr. Madi what are the main needs of the children living on the frontlines of the conflict.
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Gaza: Hostages released, aid is beginning to flow, say aid agenciesSouth Sudan’s escalating political crisis is driving violence, Human Rights Council investigators warnWHO: Maldives is first country to stop mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B
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As Afghanistan quake toll jumps to 2,200, aid agencies continue relief missionGaza: Families fleeing need a ceasefire desperately, says UNICEF workerPapua New Guinea is in frontline of climate change, warns UN’s Guterres
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Afghanistan quake: Aid agencies call for emergency funding – WFPGaza: Desperate aid-seekers killed every day trying to get food – OCHAFunding cuts will have big impact on Human Rights Council, says President
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Afghanistan quake: Aid teams scramble to reach most remote survivorsAlert over worsening situation for Myanmar’s remaining Rohingya: OHCHRLa Niña likely to return but global temperatures still set to rise: WMO
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Aid effort gears up after Afghanistan quake ‘wipes out’ villages: UNHCR In Gaza, children out of school for third year running: UNRWA Guterres condemns detention of more UN staff in Yemen
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Descent into ‘massive famine’ in Gaza has begun: OCHA, WHOIran surge in executions signals further crackdown on protesters, minorities: OHCHRAfghanistan schools ban rejected by almost all men and women: UN Women
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Gaza death and destruction is without parallel, says UN chiefUkraine: Condemnation for unrelenting Russian attacks; OCHA, UNICEFIn Yemen, IOM appeals for support amid deadly flooding
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Viet Nam: Typhoon’s deadly destruction is not over, warns IOMGazans face even more hunger and disease unless aid is allowed in at scale: UN agenciesPeacekeepers in Lebanon still needed to push for regional stability: UNIFIL
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Gaza: UN condemns Israeli strike on hospitalEight years on from forced exodus, conditions keep worsening for RohingyaPakistan: Over 20,000 still displaced by deadly flash floods
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Food security experts confirm famine in Gaza Sudan: UN rights office horrified by recent killings in El Fasher End impunity for violence against Rohingya in Myanmar: OHCHR
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UN chief calls for ceasefire in Gaza Pakistan suffers deadly floodingIn Ukraine, war is less stressful than exams, UNICEF says
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UN chief calls for ‘new era of cooperation with Africa’ at Tokyo summit Israeli plan to take full control of Gaza city will lead to further killings and displacement, warns UN human rights officeCorporal punishment remains widespread: WHO
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World Humanitarian Day 2025: Aid workers mull record death toll among fallen colleaguesHaiti: more than half of the population don’t have enough to eat – WFPWHO condemns rising attacks on healthcare
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More young lives lost and devastated in Russian attacks on Ukraine: UNICEFGaza food assistance below half WFP’s daily targetImpacts of Somalia drought made worse by funding cuts: OCHA
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More young lives lost and devastated in Russian attacks on Ukraine: UNICEFGaza food assistance below half WFP’s daily targetImpacts of Somalia drought made worse by funding cuts: OCHA
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More young lives lost and devastated in Russian attacks on Ukraine: UNICEFGaza food assistance below half WFP’s daily targetImpacts of Somalia drought made worse by funding cuts: OCHA
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More young lives lost and devastated in Russian attacks on Ukraine: UNICEFGaza food assistance below half WFP’s daily targetImpacts of Somalia drought made worse by funding cuts: OCHA
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Plastic pollution treaty talks adjourn in Geneva without consensusFrom Sudan to Yemen, conflict is fuelling cholera, warns WHOGaza: Nearly all people with disabilities have lost assistive devices
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Türk: Peru amnesty law is an ‘affront’ to victims of country’s warSyria: Violence in Alawite areas may be war crimes, say rights investigatorsGaza 40C heatwave piles pressure on scant water supplies: UNRWA
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Türk: Sri Lanka must seize opportunity to ‘break with entrenched impunity’UN Human Rights urged Uganda to conditionally release opposition leaderMyanmar: Hunger surging in Rakhine state, warns WFP
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Report reveals ‘systematic torture’ and other crimes in Myanmar Gaza hospitals overflow with people injured while seeking food: WHO UNESCO chief condemns killing of six journalists in Gaza City
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Gaza: UN rights office condemns killing of Palestinian journalistsAfghanistan: UNICEF urges safe returns amid education concernsWorld Steelpan Day: Celebrating a Caribbean instrument with global impact
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Israeli plan to take complete control of Gaza must stop now, says UN rights chief Cholera sweeps across Sudan, Chad refugee site Afghanistan returnees have lost hope and now they need our help: UN-Habitat
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In Gaza, hospitals are ‘at near-total collapse’ and staff are overwhelmed DR Congo: UN Human Rights chief condemns surge in M23 violence WHO issues new recommendations to counter widespread mistreatment of women giving birth
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In Gaza, hospitals are ‘at near-total collapse’ and staff are overwhelmed DR Congo: UN Human Rights chief condemns surge in M23 violence WHO issues new recommendations to counter widespread mistreatment of women giving birth
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Gaza: Famine doesn’t happen overnight, says UN aid agency In Sudan, children are ‘just skin and bones’: UNICEF Geography shouldn’t define destiny, UN chief tells summit on landlocked nations
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Gaza remains on brink of famine as UNRWA chief calls for release of hostagesSudan war: terrified civilians flee besieged El Fasher, ZamzanPlastic pollution talks get underway in Geneva
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Gaza: People continue to be killed seeking food as starvation deepens First UN aid mission arrives in Sweida, Syria Support mums and babies during World Breastfeeding Week
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Syria: WHO confirms five attacks on healthcare in SweidaUN agencies urge more support for Sudan returneesWorld marks first International Day of Women and Girls of African Descent
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