Iraq: Over 150,000 children endangered by ‘freezing’ temperatures, warns UNICEF

Dec 11, 2018, at 08:27 am

New York, Dec 11 (IBNS): The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has ramped up efforts to provide warm clothes and life-saving supplies to more than 150,000 displaced children across northern Iraq whose lives are threatened by freezing temperatures.

Armed groups threaten every child in Central African Republic, UNICEF warns

Nov 30, 2018, at 08:24 am

New York, Nov 30 (IBNS): A new study released by the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, shows that the deteriorating crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR), five years into the latest civil conflict to hit the country, has left practically every child needing protection from armed groups, which now control four-fifths of the country’s territory.