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TikTok star Khaby Lame poses for a photograph after being named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Friday, Jan. 31, 2025 in Dakar, Senegal. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

World’s most popular TikTok personality Khaby Lame joins UNICEF as goodwill ambassador

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A boy pulls a cart to collect items as he scavenges in the Kadikoy district in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Turkey’s soaring costs are creating a ‘lost generation’ of kids forced to help their families get by

By Robert Badendieck - Associated Press

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip, walk through a dark streak of sewage flowing into the streets of the southern town of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on July 4, 2024. Health authorities and aid agencies are racing to avert an outbreak of polio in the Gaza Strip after the virus was detected in the territory's wastewater and three cases with a suspected polio symptom have been reported. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)

Aid groups in Gaza try to avert a polio outbreak with a surge of vaccinations

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An Afghan girl cries in front of her house that was destroyed by the earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Another strong earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier one killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in Herat province in what was one of the most destructive quakes in the country's recent history. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

More than 90% of people killed by western Afghanistan quake were women and children, U.N. says

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Rescue workers evacuate villagers through a boat from a flooded area of Pakpattan district of Pakistan's Punjab province, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Rescuers have evacuated more than 100,000 people from flood-hit areas of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province in the past three weeks, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo)

UNICEF says a year on from Pakistan’s catastrophic floods, millions of children still need support

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Illustration about the rise of Cholera cases. (Illustration/Amelia Bates, Grist via AP)

As climate change leads to more and wetter storms, cholera cases are on the rise

By Blanca Begert and Grist - Associated Press

A child receives a polio vaccine, during the Malawi Polio Vaccination Campaign Launch in Lilongwe Malawi, Sunday, March 20, 2022. A new report from UNICEF says nearly 13 million children missed one or more vaccinations in Africa between 2019 and 2021 because of the disruptive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi/File)

UNICEF: 12.7 million children in Africa missed vaccinations

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

Mother Iavosoa, who only gave her first name, and her 10-month-old daughter Soaravo, who is suffering with acute malnutrition, at a hospital in Mananjary, Madagascar, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Southeastern Madagascar has been battered by three intense cyclones in the space of a year and humanitarian groups say it is now facing a hunger emergency because of those climatic disasters. (AP Photo/Sarah Tetaud)

Madagascar faces ‘catastrophic’ hunger after 3 cyclones

By Sarah Tetaud - Associated Press

Bidder Ole Bjorn Fausa, of Norway, holds the 1936 Nobel Peace Prize medal in Baltimore, March 27, 2014, the second Nobel Peace Prize ever to come to auction. The Nobel Peace Prize, won last October by Russian journalist Dmitri A. Muratov, will be offered at auction, Monday, June 20, 2022, with proceeds going to help children displaced by the war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov sells Nobel Prize for Ukrainian children

By Bobby Caina Calvan

Nazia 30, who has lost four children due to severe malnutrition, holds her malnourished baby in a hospital in Parwan province north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 19, 2022. Some 1.1 million Afghan children under the age of five will face malnutrition by the end of the year. , as hospitals wards are already packed with sick children . (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

1.1 million Afghan children could face severe malnutrition

By Rahim Faiez and Lee Keath - Associated Press

A child receives a polio vaccine, during the Malawi Polio Vaccination Campaign Launch in Lilongwe Malawi, Sunday March 20, 2022. A drive to vaccinate more than 9 million children against polio has been launched this week in four countries in southern and eastern Africa after an outbreak was confirmed in Malawi. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

9 million children to be vaccinated against polio in Africa

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FILE - In this June 20, 2017, file photo, United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric fields questions for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during his first press conference with U.N. correspondents, on World Refugee Day, at U.N. headquarters. Dujarric expressed deep concern at the reports "of the horrific killing of 11 people" and strongly condemned such violence. He reminded Myanmar's military authorities of their obligations under international law to ensure the safety and protection of civilians and called for those responsible "for this heinous act" to be held accountable. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

UN appoints Biden adviser Catherine Russell to head UNICEF

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A displaced Syrian girl sits outside her family's tent at a refugee camp in Bar Elias, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Friday, March 5, 2021. UNICEF said Wednesday, March 10, 2021 that Syria’s 10-year-long civil war has killed or wounded about 12,000 children and left millions out of school in what could have repercussions for years to come in the country. The country's bitter conflict has killed nearly half a million people, wounded more than a million and displaced half the country’s population, including more than 5 million as refugees. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

UNICEF: Syria’s war has killed and wounded 12,000 children

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Fire kills 3 children in Syrian camp housing IS families

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UN gets airlines to deliver COVID-19 vaccines as a priority

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FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2019 file photo, a malnourished newborn baby lies in an incubator at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The United Nations Children’s Fund on Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, launched a global appeal for a record $2.5 billion of emergency assistance for the Middle East and North Africa, saying the funds were necessary to respond to the needs of millions of children across a region hit hard by conflict, natural disaster and the coronavirus crisis. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Yemen ‘on edge of precipice’ as UNICEF launches aid appeal

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

UN: Pandemic tough on millions of Mideast, NAfrican children

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

From ‘role models’ to sex workers: Kenya’s child labor rises

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

A worker moves boxes at Snowman Logistics, India's largest cold storage company in Taloja, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020. The vaccine cold chain hurdle is just the latest disparity of the pandemic weighted against the poor, who more often live and work in crowded conditions that allow the virus to spread, have little access to medical oxygen vital to COVID-19 treatment, and whose health systems lack labs, supplies or technicians to carry out large-scale testing. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Vaccine storage issues could leave 3B people without access

By LORI HINNANT and SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

Andres Gomez works inside an amber mine near the community of Jotolchen II in Chiapas state, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. The 11-year-old said that before the new coronavirus pandemic hit, he attended school and then would spend a couple of hours mining after class, but since the school closed in March he is spending entire days mining. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Pandemic driving children back to work, jeopardizing gains

By MARÍA VERZA and CARLOS VALDEZ and WILLIAM COSTA - Associated Press