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The protection of civilians is a key mandate for many United Nations peacekeeping operations including in the Central African Republic.

A family from Amran Governorate in Yemen shares lunch (file)

2020 Military Gender Advocte Awardees, Major Suman Gawani (left) of the Indian Army formerly depolyed with UNMISS, and Commander Carla Monteiro de Castro Araujo, a Brazilian Naval officer working in MINUSCA.

Tea is a cultural and social tradition in Kyrgyzstan.

Two-year-old Dariy with his grandmother in their home in Krasnohorivka, eastern Ukraine.

Since early March, at least 1,000 unaccompanied migrant children have been returned from the United States to Mexico and northern Central America – El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras – despite serious protection risks in their communities of origin aggravated by COVID-19, UNICEF reported on May 21,2020. Over the same period, at least 447 migrant children were returned from Mexico to Guatemala and Honduras.

12-year-old Elizabeth and 10-year-old Justin follow a Social Studies lesson on the EDU TV while doing their revision at home in Kibera. Justin's brother, Morara who is in the kindergarten doodles on an exercise book. Elizabeth is in Standard 6 and Justin is in Standard 5, "I am familiar with most of the topics the teacher is teaching" he said.

At least 19 million children in parts of Bangladesh and India are at imminent risk from flash flooding, storm surges and heavy rain as Cyclone Amphan makes landfall on May 20, UNICEF has warned. The Indian state of West Bengal, home to more than 50 million people, including over 16 million children, is expected to take a direct hit from the powerful storm.

In Niger, 1.6 million vulnerable children are affected by humanitarian crises, including border closures and COVID-19 containment measures.

The lives and health of over a quarter of a million children under one year of age in Libya are at risk from vaccine-preventable diseases due to critical shortages in vaccine supplies.