Siamak's brother, Babak Namazi, said in a statement Saturday that Iranian authorities had granted his sibling a further three-day furlough and that he hoped a longer extension would follow.

The toll has repeatedly ratcheted higher since the first bodies were found on Thursday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, described the shipwreck as a "heart-wrenching tragedy".

Some 5.5 million Chadians around a third of the landlocked central African country's population needed "urgent humanitarian assistance" last year, according to the United Nations.

Landau works by suspending the objects in the salt lake from frames and later, she carefully liberates the brittle artefacts with the help of several assistants.

Child vaccination rates in Lebanon have dropped by more than 30 percent, compounding a health crisis marked by drug shortages and an exodus of trained professionals, the United Nations said Wednesday.

Despite Russian denials of responsibility, condemnation was swift, with Western leaders, NATO, and the UN all voicing horror at reports of civilian murders in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv.

The UAE has expressed its "support" for the UN ceasefire, which was also welcomed by the US, UN chief Antonio Guterres, the European Union, and the leaders of Britain, France, and Iraq.

UN chief says that around 100,000 people in Mariupol have been forced to live in a complete blockade with no food, no water, no medicine.

The failure of countries to crack down on the marketing of breast milk substitutes means far too many children are still being reared on formula, the World Health Organization and the UN children's agency Unicef have warned in a new report.

Lebanon’s crisis is increasingly forcing young people to drop out of learning and engage in ill-paid, irregular and informal work just to survive and help feed their families, UNICEF said in a report released Saturday. The report also indicates that 31 percent of young people are not in education, employment,...

School closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic have caused "nearly insurmountable" losses in education among children around the world, UNICEF said on Monday. In many countries, in addition to depriving millions of children of the chance to acquire basic skills, these disruptions have affected students' mental health, put them at...

Naseer Shamma, an icon of the Arabic oud, has returned home to help rekindle the flame of Iraqi music, snuffed out by decades of conflict.

Unicef Director Henrietta Fore said “parties to conflict” have continued to “demonstrate a dreadful disregard for the rights and wellbeing of children.”

School constructions across Iraq will take two years and three phases.

South Korea's $2.5 million aid for programs supporting Afghan refugees in Iran has been hailed by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and UNICEF. Iranian media reports said that South Korea's Ambassador to Iran Yun Kahghyeon on Tuesday signed an agreement of cooperation with the two UN agencies in the...

As part of UNICEF’s UPSHIFT program, Nokia has agreed to a partnership with Orange Foundation and UNICEF to empower marginalized young people, particularly girls, in Morocco with digital, entrepreneurial and environmental skills. The UPSHIFT program will empower young people to become resilient citizens who engage more actively with their everyday life, contribute to...

The UN health agency said that a shortage of at least one billion syringes “could occur”, if manufacturing does not pick up.

Amina Mahdi had already been teaching children to read and write before the outbreak of the impoverished country's devastating war in 2014.

The UN leaders released a joint statement in which they condemned what they called the ‘crisis of vaccine inequity,’ among countries.

Unicef is calling for the urgent restoration of power supply, which is the only solution to keep water services running.

Nearly one in two adults also showing signs of psychological distress, according to UNICEF survey of 1,200 families.

Several countries report baby foods producers invoking unfounded fears that breastfeeding can transmit virus.

Global non-profit Save The Children has said the collapsing Lebanese economy has pushed more than half a million children in Beirut into a struggle for survival.

Unicef has estimated that water supply in Lebanon may collapse altogether over the next month and a half

The shelling also wounded around 15 others in several locations of the Jabal al-Zawiya area The UNICEF said the attacks were “just tragic” and “the worst” since a ceasefire brokered in March last year   Seven children were among nine civilians killed by Syrian regime artillery fire Saturday in the...

Vaccine manufacturing, patent protection, surplus doses disposal, cold storage needs a challenge So far, only slightly more than one in five people worldwide estimated to have had at least a single dose An additional 870 million Covid-19 doses promised by the G7 have been hailed as a "big help" by...

    Delivery of at least half of the doses pledged expected by the end of 2021 G7 countries will add to vaccine efforts announced at G20 Summit and Global Vaccine Summit   Leaders of major industrial nations have pledged to share about 1 billion Covid vaccine doses with low-income...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF call for urgent action to address the acute food insecurity in northern Ethiopia

Internet Monsters campaign portrays villains from classic fairy tales as evil digital characters The campaign is an extension of the Zain-UNICEF partnership for child protection activities Saudi Arabia's leading telecom company Zain KSA has launched its "Internet Monsters" campaign on various digital platforms and social media sites to create awareness...