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Multiple challenges, including escalating conflict and violence, the Covid-19 pandemic, climate-related disasters, rising poverty and a collapse in public services in Myanmar have left an estimated 14.4 million people including 5 million children in need of humanitarian assistance, UNICEF Myanmar has pointed out in a statement.

HÀ NỘI — UNICEF Việt Nam has called on the country to reopen schools for all age groups “without prerequisites”.

MANILA, Philippines — The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has congratulated the Philippine government for raising the minimum age of sexual consent from 12 to 16 to protect minors from rape and sexual abuse.

While the internet offers new opportunities in education amid the pandemic, it has also become a platform for threat and sexual abuse among children, an official of the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) said on Wednesday.

Catherine Russell of the United States took office on Tuesday as the new executive director of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), becoming the fourth woman to lead the organization.

"When COVID-19 community transmission increases and stringent public health measures become a necessity, schools must be the last places to close and the first to re-open," UN Childrens Fund (UNICEF) chief Henrietta Fore said.

More than one million children are in need of humanitarian assistance due to COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflict and rising poverty, announced UNICEF Myanmar.

As part of the newly launched Every Day is Mind Day campaign, UNICEF Thailand is releasing two mental health toolkits on its website for young people and caregivers in Thailand to help them take care of their mental well-being and support their loved ones.

UNICEF launches a nationwide campaign to normalise and address mental health challenges with young people and caregivers.

The United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday called on the public to attend to the psychological well-being of adolescents at a theme campaign held in Beijing.

UNICEF and Department of Mental Health caution on World Mental Health Day

The UN chief said although the total number of nuclear weapons has been decreasing for decades, some 14,000 are stockpiled around the world, which is facing "the highest level of nuclear risk" in almost four decades.