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Economic duress is compounding the impact of conflict in Syria, even before the COVID-19 pandemic touched the country.

“The world is currently united in a shared struggle against an invisible enemy. But while our eyes are firmly focused on how to avoid or treat COVID-19, the serious consequences that will challenge us far beyond the current pandemic – the hidden impacts – are not yet front of mind. This must change.

A shipment managed by UNICEF of approximately 90 tons of vital supplies arrived in Caracas on April 08, 2020. The shipment includes Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits for health workers on the frontline in the battle against COVID-19.

Two boys walk to their settlements in Hadhwe sub-district, Ethiopia.

Warehouse staff prepares to UNICEF supplies to be delivered and distributed to health centres across Lebanon.

Even before the COVID-19 crisis, South Asia had a chronic education crisis with 95 million children of school age being out of school. With the current COVID-19 crisis unfolding, many of the 430 million children affected by school closures in the region are now in danger of dropping out of the education system.

A UNICEF shipment of 7.5 tons of vital health supplies is arriving in Bamako, Mali on a Danish flight of April 04, 2020, co-financed between the European Union (EU) and the Government of Denmark.

A deminer undergoing training in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

“No more femicides,” reads this graffiti, scrawled on a wall in Mexico City, where public outcry has been mounting against gender-motivated killings.

WHO and UNICEF on 3 April,2020 announced an agreement to work together on COVID-19 response, through the historic COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund powered by the United Nations Foundation and Swiss Philanthropy Foundation.