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Afra, held by her mother Therese, is being checked for malnourishment at Al Sabbah Children's hospital in Juba, South Sudan.

As COVID-19 continues to take lives and change communities around the world, the virus is also creating massive protection risks for women and girls forced to flee their homes, a top official at the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Monday, stressing that global protection staff are on high alert and adapting life-saving support programmes for those subjected to violence.

“Millions of children around the world have been driven from their homes and across borders by conflict, violence and other forms of harm – including 12.7 million refugees and 1.1 million asylum seekers.

In line with Chinese government and Communist Party officials, the director of Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory has aggressively dismissed claims that it could be the source of the coronavirus outbreak, calling it "impossible" and labeling them as “conspiracy theory.”

UNICEF Supplies arrive at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on 16 April 2020

Media and rights groups are calling on Mozambican authorities to locate and immediately release a community radio journalist missing since April 7.

Children sit in front of a house damaged by an air strike in Yemen. (July 2019)

UNICEF Supplies arrive at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on 16 April 2020.

IOM, the International Organization for Migration, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund welcomed the relocation of 12 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children from Greece to Luxembourg on April 15, 2020. The children, who had been living in overcrowded reception and identification centers for several months on the islands of Lesvos, Samos and Chios, arrived safely in Luxembourg this afternoon. Germany is in the process of relocating another group of unaccompanied children from Greece, who are due to arrive this weekend.

Medical equipment is loaded into an aircraft in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as part of a UN “Solidarity Flight” to deliver supplies to African countries fighting the coronavirus pandemic.