Tag Archives: Henrietta Fore

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A child’s first day of school, a landmark moment for the youngest pupils and their parents around the world, has been delayed due to COVID-19 for an estimated 140 million young minds, the UN Children’s agency has said. For an estimated eight million of these …

United Nations | Xinhua | The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday announced the signing of an agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to supply 220 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine for all 55 member states of the African Union (AU) by the end of 2022. Some 35 …

Geneva, Switzerland |  THE INDEPENDENT  |  An additional USD 2 billion is required in 2021 to finance and secure up to a total of 1.8 billion donor-funded doses of COVID-19 vaccines, according to the COVAX facility, an initiative led by UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the World Health Organization …

United Nations | XINHUA | Disruptions to services for preventing and responding to violence in the home, due to the global pandemic, has left children in more than 100 countries vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday. The UN agency’s “Socio-economic Impact Survey …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The COVID-19 “pandemic is making a global childcare crisis even worse,” Henrietta Fore, head of the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF), warned Tuesday. Fore’s remark came after the release of a UN study that shows at least 40 million children have missed out on …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  More than 116 million babies have been born since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but pregnant women and newborns remain under increasing threat from strained health services and supply chains, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).  The agency is now calling for governments …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | While governments continue mooting for alternative schooling in the wake of coronavirus (COVID-19) that led to the closure of schools, the UN Children’s Agency-UNICEF says that tens of millions of children in Eastern and Southern Africa will not be reached. The agency says that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Less than half of all school-aged refugee children are enrolled in school, with that dropping to one in four for secondary school, according to a joint statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). Released …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has asked countries to release children in detention resulting from armed conflict. According to UNICEF, many countries have not headed to the advice and as a result, 250 million children continue to be affected. In the latest statement, …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Self-isolation has driven more and more children to move online during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to an unprecedented rise in screen time and raising safety risks for millions of young people, according to Child Rights defenders. More than 1.5 billion children and young people have …