Written by Gloria Ngatha A new report from the United Nations Children’s Fund, known as UNICEF, has revealed that nearly half of the world’s children are facing multiple climate dangers at the same time. Experts say these challenges could affect children’s health, education, and daily lives around the world. UNICEF According to […]
Written by Gloria Ngatha More children were affected by armed conflict in 2025 than at any other time in the last 30 years, according to a new United Nations report that describes the year as one of the darkest periods for child protection on record. The UN documented 38,558 grave violations against children […]
Written by Alice Njoki In South Sudan, millions of children are facing a worsening hunger crisis driven by conflict, displacement, and climate shocks, according to a joint report released on April 28, 2026 by UNICEF, the World Food Programme (WFP), and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The agencies report that […]
Written by Alice Njoki Across the world, governments have committed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of targets developed by the United Nations to create safer, fairer, and more equal societies by 2030. One of these goals, SDG 16, focuses on promoting peace, reducing violence, ensuring access to justice, […]
Huku mauaji ya kimbari yakiendelea kuzidi kwenye Ukanda wa Gaza, UNICEF inatoa tahadhari, ikionya dhidi ya kuzingirwa kijeshi na uvamizi wa ardhini huko Rafah kunaweza kuleta matokeo mabaya kwa watoto 600,000 wanaopata hifadhi katika eneo hilo. Tangu kutolewa kwa amri za kuhamishwa mwezi Oktoba, takriban watu milioni 1.2 wamekimbilia kujikinga Rafah, wakiipanua idadi ya watu […]
Globally, at least one million children under 5 years die annually due to severe wasting, making it one of the top threats to child survival according to a new report by UNICEF. This is because severe wasting turns childhood illnesses into killer diseases. Children who are severely wasted succumb to those diseases because their bodies […]
Two-thirds of child-related 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators are off-pace to meet their targets, according to a new UNICEF report released recently. This is worrying as the world is at the halfway mark towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report, Progress on Children’s Well-Being: Centring child rights in the 2030 Agenda warns […]
To help properly document violence against children, UNICEF has developed the International Classification of Violence against Children (ICVAC) with inputs from over 200 experts from national statistical offices, academia, and international organizations. This, the agency says, will help combat lack of available and comparable data that covers the many complex forms of violence which have […]
A new report by UNICEF and WHO indicates that girls are nearly twice as likely as boys to bear the responsibility of fetching water for households and spend more time doing it each day, The report Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) 2000-2022: Special focus on gender shows that globally, 1.8 billion people […]
Hedhi ni mchakato wa kawaida katika maisha ya kila mwanamke, lakini mara nyingi hufunikwa na usiri na aibu. Takriban wanawake na wasichana milioni 9.3 nchini Kenya hupata hedhi. Mara nyingi wasichana waliofikisha umri wa kubalighi hutafuta majibu kuhusu afya yao ya hedhi ila mara nyingi huambulia patupu. Ili kukabiliana na changamoto hii, Unicef imezindua […]