The United Nations children's agency has urged Taliban rulers of Afghanistan to lift the ban on girls' education, a decision that has hit the future of millions of children in the country.

UNICEF has called on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to lift their ban on girls’ secondary education as the new school year begins. The UN children’s agency said the ban deprives another 400,000 girls of ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), a UN agency dedicated to promoting and protecting the rights of children, on ...

Speaking at a conference in October 2024, Nigeria’s Vice President Kashim Shettima described the high rate of out-of-school ...

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has said 1.3 million children (under the age of five) suffering ...

The United Nations Children's Fund said 1.3 million children under five suffering from severe acute malnutrition could lose ...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned that 1.3 million children in Ethiopia and Nigeria under the age of ...

Sudan: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) condemns looting of life-saving supplies for children from Al Bashair hospital in Khartoum State ...

In Nigeria, UNICEF said it may run out of supplies to feed 80,000 malnourished children as soon as the end of this month. Van der Heijden described recently being in a hospital in Maiduguri with a ...

The United Nations Children's Agency says it will run out of supply of lifesaving food to treat children suffering from acute malnutrition ...

The ban, said the agency, has deprived 400,000 more girls of their right to education, bringing the total to 2.2 million.