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Water rationing, garbage pile-up raise disease fears in Yemen's besieged Taiz

Fighting between the Saudi-backed government and the Houthis since September has cut key supply routes, worsening shortages of water, food, and fuel in and around the city.

Workers collect garbage from a street in the southwestern city of Taiz, Yemen, October 20, 2026.
Displaced Lebanese children play in the playground of a public school that has been converted into a shelter in the town of Dekwaneh, north of Beirut on March 25, 2026.

UNICEF warns of severe child deprivation in Lebanon as displacement, economic tolls mount

The Washington Post headquarters, pictured on February 4, 2026.

Why ‘Washington Post’ columnist Shadi Hamid excuses Hamas, demonizes Israel, Jews - opinion

Rawya Hassan, a mother of seven, sits with her children outside their hut at the al-Bireen camp for displaced people who fled fighting between the Houthis and forces of Yemen's internationally recognized government in Taiz province, Yemen, September 17, 2026.

UNICEF: Acute child malnutrition on the rise in Yemen as fighting disrupts healthcare access


PMW report slams Palestinian Authority for using child soldiers

Does UNICEF confront the issue?

A Palestinian boy carries a tire during a protest marking al-Quds Day, (Jerusalem Day), at the Israel-Gaza border, east of Gaza City June 8, 2018.

Israel must stop arrests, 'abuse' of Palestinian minors, European MPs say

The Parliamentary Assembly of Europe voted on a report calling for Israel to stop detaining Palestinian minors.

Palestinian children hold models depicting the Dome of the Rock during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, near the central Gaza Strip December 15, 2017

UN issues blank statement on Syria, says it has run out of words

There followed 10 empty lines with quote marks indicating missing text, and an explanatory footnote.

A man holds a child after an airstrike in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria February 7, 2018.

UN staff allegedly responsible for over 60,000 cases of sexual exploitation

"The charities have a higher than normal obligation to ensure they do everything they possibly can in training, prevention and detection and, critically, prosecution."

Displaced Iraqi boys enter a tent school set by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) at Hammam al-Alil camp south of Mosul, Iraq

Poverty could push Lebanon's Syrian refugee children to marry and work

Struggling to survive, more than three quarters of the refugees in Lebanon now live on less than $4 per day, according to the survey which was based on data collected last year.

A GENERAL view of the Bab Al-Salam refugee camp in Azaz, near the Syrian-Turkish border, one of many camps housing Syrian refugees.