For the first time since insurgent attacks on Oct. 9 resulted in an ongoing military crackdown in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, the World Food Program is allowed to deliver food to displaced people.
Around 1.5 million children in Yemen are malnourished and half the population lives in hunger, United Nations aid agencies said on Friday, three days after pictures of an emaciated Yemeni teenager sparked headlines around the world.
Aid officials say up to 90 percent of southern Haiti has been destroyed since Hurricane Matthew struck the impoverished nation…
Hilton Foundation honors most influential, invisible group in global health
Conflict and climate change are creating a burgeoning hunger crisis in west and central Africa. With funds being shifted to…
An attack last Thursday on an aid convoy in northern Nigeria forced UNICEF to temporarily suspend its operations. The group…
Human trafficking is one of the most lucrative criminal enterprises in the world. Although sexual exploitation accounts for just over…
Colombia’s left-wing FARC rebels have agreed to release child soldiers from their ranks as part of the peace deal they…
Immunizations prevent 2 million to 3 million deaths around the world each year, according to UNICEF. However, due to lack…
A new joint initiative by UNICEF and the United Nations Programs Fund (UNFPA) aims to end child marriage across the…