@joe-english.bsky.social
Covering humanitarian crises in the UNICEF press office in NYC | Brit in Brooklyn
With millions returning to Afghanistan, UNICEF calls for a safe, dignified, voluntary and phased approach and increased support for children and families
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"In July alone, nearly 12,000 children in Gaza were identified as acutely malnourished - The highest monthly figure ever recorded.
βThis is clear evidence that malnutrition is accelerating rapidly, putting young lives at grave risk.β
Children in Sudan βreduced to skin and bonesβ as UNICEF calls for urgent action
βThe world must not look away. Not now.β
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βthe U.N. and other experienced aid organizations stand ready with the resources, the skills and the proven blueprint to provide essential humanitarian relief.β
βTo end starvation in Gaza, Israel must allow humanitarian-aid professionals to do their jobβ
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"You see the images on the news, and you know what has happened, but it is still shocking when you are there.
"The marks of deep suffering and hunger were visible on the faces of families and children."
UNICEF's Ted Chaiban following his visit to Gaza
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Children in Gaza are running out of time -
Two out of three of the famine thresholds have now been breached in parts of Gaza, with food consumption and nutrition indicators at their worst levels since the conflict began.
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"The pause in the fighting is important and it is welcome," UNICEF's @joe-english.bsky.social tells @anacabrera.bsky.social. "But if we're really going to save lives of children and prevent this from continuing to happen, it needs to be a sustained ceasefire."
More from @msnbc.com on #Gaza:
The images of malnourished children and stories coming out of Gaza should not be happening in the 21st century. And it certainly shouldnβt be happening somewhere where food is just a matter of miles away.
Speaking to @jaketapper.bsky.social about #Gaza last night
The images coming out of Gaza over the past few days do far more than my words to convey the severity of the situation for children.
But still glad to join @caitrionaperry.bsky.social to unpack just why severe malnutrition is one of the deadliest threats to a young childβs survival. #gaza
βChildren in the Gaza Strip are starving to death.
βSevere malnutrition is spreading among children faster than aid can reach them, and the world is watching it happen.
"Children must be protected - not killed, and not left to starve."
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Sudanβs children face growing threat of deadly infectious diseases as vaccination rates halve
Important reporting from @katlay.bsky.social, speaking to UNICEF Sudan's Chief of Health Dr Tedbabe Degefie Hailegebriel
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"The latest deaths take the nationwide toll to nearly 180 since the monsoon started in late June. More than half of them were children."
Important reporting by BBC News' Kelly Ng on the floods in Pakistan
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βChildren are not political actors. They do not start conflicts, and they are powerless to stop them. But they suffer greatly, and they wonder why the world has failed them.β
UNICEF ED at the UN Security Council Meeting on #Gaza this afternoon
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"As shocking as Sundayβs deaths were, they are commonplace in Gaza: a classroom-worth of children have been killed each day since the war began."
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βUNICEF condemns the attacks in the strongest possible terms. We call on all parties to the conflict to end the violence immediately and to uphold their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law, and the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution."
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βMore than 450 civilians, including at least 24 boys, 11 girls, and two pregnant women, were reportedly killed in horrific attacks in Sudanβs North Kordofan State over the weekend.. we fear that the number of child casualties could rise further.β
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βChildren in Darfur are being starved by conflict and cut off from the very aid that could save them,β
More worrying news from Sudan as the number of severely malnourished children doubles in North Darfur and the nutrition crisis deepens across the country
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'Among the survivors was Donia, whose 1-year-old boy, Mohammed, was killed. She said he spoke his first words to her just hours earlier. Donia now lies in a hospital bed, critically injured by the blast, clutching Mohammedβs tiny shoe.'
Horrific news that 9 children and 4 women were killed as they waited in line for nutrition supplies from a UNICEF partner organisation in Gaza this morning.
We call for a thorough and independent investigation of this incident and all allegations of violations.
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Around 70 per cent of children in Ukraine - or 3.5 million - now lack access to basic goods and services, including adequate food or shelter. An increase from some 18 per cent in 2021, prior to the escalation of the war in February 2022. @unicef-ukraine.bsky.social
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There seems to be a trend at the moment of calling something 'humanitarian' and then believing it becomes so, but that's simply not how it works...
'Humanitarian work has to adhere to the principles of independence, neutrality, impartiality and humanity.β
Speaking to BBC News about Gaza this eve
There seems to be a trend at the moment of calling something 'humanitarian' and then believing it becomes so, but that's simply not how it works...
'Humanitarian work has to adhere to the principles of independence, neutrality, impartiality and humanity.β
Speaking to BBC News about Gaza this eve
The verified number of children killed or injured in Ukraine between 1 March and 31 May 2025 increased by more than 200 per cent compared to the previous quarter, w/ the ongoing use of explosive weapons in populated areas particularly deadly and destructive.
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'11 members of her family were killed during the shelling of el-Fasher, and three children died during their four-day journey from the city to Tawila.
"The children died from thirst along the way."
Heartbreaking reporting from BBC News' Anne Soy on Sudan
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At least 12.2 million children have reportedly been killed, maimed or displaced in conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa in less than 2 years, the equivalent of one child displaced every five seconds, and one child killed or maimed every fifteen minutes.
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βMillions of people who have fled Sudan depend wholly on support from WFP, but without additional funding we will be forced to make further cuts to food assistance.
"This will leave vulnerable families, and particularly children, at increasingly severe risk of hunger and malnutrition.β
'Aid workers must choose between buying vaccines for babies or nutrition products for starving children, she said, and all could die without help.'
Important - heartbreaking - reporting from Sudan by @khoureld.bsky.social and Hafiz Haroun
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"Each violation against children in every country around the globe represents a moral failure. And each leaves scars that may never fully heal."
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The food security situation in Government-controlled areas of southern #Yemen is dire, with nearly half of the population acutely food insecure and struggling to find their next meal, according to the latest IPC analysis - @unicef.org @wfp.org @fao.org
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UNICEF delivers more lifesaving cholera vaccines to Sudan as deadly outbreak spreads
βChildren are particularly vulnerable to this deadly disease, and we must make every effort to keep them safe."
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