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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

UNICEF is a United Nations institution that provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.

Most of UNICEF's work is in the field, with staff in over 190 countries and territories.

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Children were not adequately protected from conflicts in 2018, according to UNICEF. The children's fund said thousands of boys and girls were directly victims of war violence this year.
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Faces of hope: 'UNICEF Photo of the Year' 20.12.2018

A Togolese boy with leg braces was cast out by his family for his disability and ended up in an orphanage. His portrait, sitting alone with his thoughts, won photographer Antonio Aragon Renuncio the top prize.

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Nigerian army lifts ban of UNICEF after spy accusations 15.12.2018

Nigeria's army has revoked a ban on UNICEF imposed after claiming it held workshops to train spies for Boko Haram. The group's Islamist insurgency has killed over 27,000 people since 2009 and left 1.8 million homeless.
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UNICEF alert over children's plight in Central African Republic 30.11.2018

Years of conflict in the Central African Republic mean most children there are threatened with war, disease and hunger and are in dire need of help, the UN children's agency said. And things are only getting worse.
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Anti-Boko Haram militia releases own child recruits 12.10.2018

Nigerian group CJTF has released over 800 children from its ranks after agreeing to end child recruitment in its fight against Boko Haram. UN officials warn that many other militias still use children as fighters.
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UNICEF has warned that in some parts of the world, more than 60 percent of victims are minors. The data was published ahead of the World Day against Trafficking in Persons.
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One of the world’s biggest populations of child soldiers lives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — about 30,000 children are forced to serve armed groups as soldiers, sexual slaves and laborers, according to UNICEF. Lisa Bryant caught up with one former child soldier at a new peace forum in the French region of Normandy, not far from the D-Day beaches of World War II.

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A German appraisal that Afghanistan remains "volatile" has rekindled a row over whether to reject asylum-seekers. Bavarian CSU conservatives want more expulsions. Asylum advocates want returns fully stopped.
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The UN's children's agency, UNICEF, has said at least 3.7 million children in war-torn Afghanistan cannot go to school. Girls are at a particular disadvantage, it added.
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South Sudan: More than 200 child soldiers released, UN says 19.05.2018

The UN says armed groups in South Sudan have released more than 200 children who have been serving as fighters. The children’s agency UNICEF estimates that there are some 19,000 child soldiers in the country.
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Boko Haram has abducted over 1,000 kids since 2013: UN 13.04.2018

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