Informes

HIGHLIGHTS • Child Protection (CP) partners reunited 56 unaccompanied children with their families. • Gender-based violence (GBV) partners referred 1,249 GBV cases to GBV specialized services providers. • Unidentified gunmen decapitated a teacher before his family. • At least three…

Aissa Doumara Ngatansou was 15 years old when she was forced into marriage. Nearly 30 per cent of girls in Ngatansou’s home in North Cameroon are married before the age of 18, facing loss of education, high…

HIGHLIGHTS In Cameroon, 4.4 million people, including 2.3 million children, 1.1 million women and 660,000 persons with disabilities,2 urgently need humanitarian assistance. Needs are driven by armed conflict, inter-communal violence, an influx of refugees from neighbouring countries,…

HIGHLIGHTS The West and Central Africa region is facing concurrent public health emergencies, increasing violence and insecurity, and large-scale population displacement. Across the region,107 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, including 60 million children. The UNICEF…

New UN Women data confirms violence against women has worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic The report launch kicks off the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence, from 25 November to 10 December, under the…

What protection concerns do children face in West and Central Africa? Major humanitarian crises continue to unfold across the West and Central Africa region. 57.5 million children are in need of humanitarian assistance, a figure that has…

Over the past five years, the region has consistently recorded some of the highest numbers of UN-verified grave violations against children DAKAR, 23 November 2021–Since 2005, when a United Nations mechanism for monitoring and reporting on the…

The COVID-19 pandemic has continued to take a devastating toll on women and girls’ safety in already complex humanitarian emergencies. Following on from What Happened?, this report surfaces evidence of increased risk of gender-based violence (GBV),…

Dakar, 15 November 2021 - At the invitation of the Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mahamat Saleh Annadif, the Heads of the…

Leaders from governments, civil society and the United Nations have renewed their commitment to make urgent and strategic investments in adolescent girls' and young women's rights, education and health. At a three-day regional summit on…