Children display their vaccination cards after receiving cholera vaccines through a UNICEF-supported vaccination drive in Madani Gezira State, Sudan.
#ForEveryChild , Health

#ICYMI In the latest episode of the #ForEveryChild podcast, host Saara Chaudry & UNICEF Canada Ambassador Simu Liu speak about their journeys with UNICEF, hopes for children in 2024 & what inspires them to be ambassadors for children everywhere. Listen in: ow.ly/XzGQ50Qpma8

2023 was reportedly the hottest year on record.

Children are the most affected by climate crisis.

They’re uniquely vulnerable to heatwaves, cyclones, flooding & climate hazards.

Let’s make 2024 count & take urgent #ClimateAction to protect the lives & futures of children.

Intensifying conflict, malnutrition and disease in Gaza are creating a deadly cycle that is threatening over 1.1 million children.

The world cannot stand by and watch. To get children the life-saving support they desperately need, we need a humanitarian ceasefire. Now.

A Child is a Child.
As we start a new year, we hope 2024 is kinder to everyone, especially children across the world.

We thank our supporters for their dedication towards UNICEF’s mission and generosity as we work together #ForEveryChild .

A holiday special episode of the #ForEveryChild podcast featuring a conversation between UNICEF Canada ambassadors and actors Simu Liu & Saara Chaudry about what inspires them to advocate for child rights and their hopes for children in 2024. Listen in: ow.ly/fl2x50Ql6bA

Children need an urgent, long-lasting humanitarian ceasefire and the safe release of hostages. Now.
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#Gaza is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. Entire neighbourhoods, where children used to play and go to school have been destroyed. Education was disrupted, water and sanitation threatened, and health services compromised. (1/2)

Host Saara Chaudry speaks to Dr. Marcia Brophy, one of UNICEF's global mental health and psychosocial advisors, on the impact of conflict on child and adolescent mental health: ow.ly/Ac7u50Qe7kb

“The humanitarian situation in #Gaza is so perilous that anything other than sustained peace & at-scale emergency aid will mean catastrophe for the children of Gaza'- UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder, as the fighting in Gaza resumes. Read his briefing: ow.ly/ujwX50QetAG

Today, Gaza is again the most dangerous place to be a child.

“Children need a lasting humanitarian ceasefire.”

Read full statement by Catherine Russell on the resumption of fighting in Gaza: unicef.org/press-releases…

.UNICEF welcomes news of a pause in fighting in Gaza and is ready to scale up our humanitarian response.

Unimpeded access to reach children—wherever they are—with life-saving support is desperately needed.
 
The death and destruction must stop.

I’m relieved to see the reports of children and women released.

UNICEF continues to call for an end to grave child rights violations and any form of violence against children in the State of Palestine and Israel.
 
All children must be protected.
 
This violence must end.

10-year-old Suhail from Gaza has burns on 50 per cent of his body.

Doctors also worry that he has lost his sight.

From a hospital in southern Gaza, our spokesperson James Elder shares the horrifying reality children have been experiencing.

“The only way children here will finally be safe is for this war to end.”-James Elder, UNICEF spokesperson speaking from Gaza.
UNICEF welcomes the temporary pause in fighting & calls for unimpeded humanitarian access in Gaza, along with the safe release of all abducted children.

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell addressed the Security Council on Israel & Gaza, saying the war must be brought to an end, and the killing and maiming of children must stop immediately. ow.ly/Qen350QazwF
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November 20 is #NationalChildDay . This year, MPs Adam van Koeverden, Mike Lake, Sylvie Bérubé, députée bloquiste, ᓘᕆ ᐃᓪᓚᐅᖅ Lori Idlout❄️, Mike Morrice and I met with students from across Canada to discuss what this day represents for 8 million Canadian children. UNICEF Canada

#EveryRightforEveryChild

“The war must be brought to an end and the killing and maiming of children must stop immediately.”

Catherine Russell’s remarks at the UN Security Council briefing on the protection of children in Gaza.

More than six weeks of war, lack of electricity, and near-total closure of all border crossings has left 1M children in #Gaza on the brink of a nutrition and public health catastrophe.

My ⁦The New York Times⁩ piece on Gaza's child health crisis. nytimes.com/2023/11/22/opi…