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The current worldwide sustainable development model is threatening to reverse years of progress, if strategies don’t drastically change, an independent group of scientists has concluded in a major new report launched on Wednesday.

A special exhibition of some of the world's most powerful visual stories that lay bare the pressing challenges faced by children uprooted from their homes and countries was inaugurated by UNICEF and the World Press Photo Foundation on Sep 11, 2019.

The 100th anniversary of Afghanistan’s Independence was celebrated in Kandahar and across the country in August 2019 with hundreds of people taking to the streets with Afghan flags.

A UNICEF installation to show the devastating scale of child deaths in conflict zones in 2018 was unveiled at the United Nations in New York on Sep 08, 2019. The haunting display features 3,758 backpacks in rows reminiscent of a graveyard, each one representing a senseless loss of a young life to conflict.

A top U.S. diplomat says the United States is holding talks with Iranian-backed Houthi rebels to try end the fighting in Yemen, which has killed thousands of civilians.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, on September 01, expressed his concern over the publication of a National Register of Citizens (NRC) that may put large numbers of people in India’s north-eastern state of Assam at risk of becoming stateless.

A senior U.S. diplomatic official reportedly said Thursday the U.S. is negotiating with the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels an in effort to end the Yemeni Civil War.

The US Coast Guard has been supporting response efforts in the Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian

Pandora and UNICEF announced a new global partnership to support the world’s most vulnerable children to lead healthier and safer lives and fulfil their potential on Sep 05, 2019. The three-year partnership between the international jewellry retailer and the United Nations Children’s Fund will also fund life skills training, with a focus on programmes that support female empowerment.

One in three young people in 30 countries said they have been a victim of online bullying, with one in five reporting having skipped school due to cyberbullying and violence, in a new poll released on Sep 04, 2019 by UNICEF and the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) on Violence against Children.