UN agency says children as young as 12 are also being enlisted or coerced to join the fighting by armed groups.

The following is a transcript of an interview with UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell that aired on March 17, 2024. MARGARET BRENNAN: According to UNICEF, 81% of households in Gaza don't ...

Catherine Russell never forgets the children she meets. As Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), she bears witness to the stories of tens of millions of children and ...

Dozens of children caught up in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been subjected to sexual ...

The U.N. children’s fund is accusing armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping scores of children over the past weeks as rebels expand their footprint and push govern ...

EXTREME weather disrupted the schooling of about 242 million children in 85 countries last year — roughly one in seven students, the UN children's agency reported Thursday, deploring what it said was ...

UN agency says children as young as 12 are also being enlisted or coerced to join the fighting by armed groups.

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Catherine Russell serves as UNICEF’s 8th Executive Director, overseeing the organization’s work for children in over 190 countries and territories. Ms. Russell brings to the role decades of experience ...