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COVAX Update: UNICEF working with global airlines and freight providers to plan delivery of COVID-19 vaccines

UNICEF kickstarts discussions with over 350 logistics organizations to step up delivery plans for eventual COVID-19 vaccines

320,000 children and adolescents newly infected with HIV in 2019, 1 every 100 seconds – UNICEF

UNICEF warns of COVID-19 disruptions to HIV service delivery in one third of high burden countries

Veronica Marco Bareza carries her youngest child, Mubarak (9 months), at the hospital in Wau, South Sudan. She was infected with HIV by her second husband, a soldier who has been missing since the conflict in South Sudan re-emerged in 2016.

Gift-Giving with Thought: Top 5 Gifts that Give Back for 2020

Gift giving around the holidays can be challenging but UNICEF Canada is here to help ease your stress with our curated list of gifts, with something for everyone.

A child washes their hands at a portable station in Mongolia.

Two thirds of the world’s school-age children have no internet access at home, new UNICEF-ITU report says

The International Telecommunication Union and UNICEF call for urgent investment to bridge a digital divide currently preventing children and young people from accessing quality digital learning and opportunities online

UNICEF Canada launches The Anthony and L. Britt Giuffre Family Fund

New fund aims to help UNICEF give every child the chance to reach their full potential

2.3 million children in Tigray region of Ethiopia need humanitarian assistance, as thousands flee across border into Sudan

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

An Ethiopian refugee child who fled fighting in Tigray province sits holding a child in a hut at the Um Raquba camp in Sudan's eastern Gedaref province, on 16 November 2020. Sudan – one of the world's poorest countries, now faced with the massive influx – has reopened the camp, 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the border. It once housed refugees who fled Ethiopia's 1983-85 famine that killed over a million people.

UNICEF issues record US$6.4 billion emergency funding appeal

Funds will support essential programs for more than 190 million children impacted by humanitarian crises and the COVID-19 pandemic

Friends sit by a UNICEF-supplied mosquito net in Bienythiang in Akoka county, Upper Nile state, South Sudan on 23rd October 2020.

Child poverty to rise above pre-COVID levels for at least five years in high-income countries including Canada - UNICEF

In high-income countries, only 2 per cent of fiscal stimulus was allocated specifically to support children during the first wave of COVID-19; a better balance of spending that provides more direct support to children is urgently needed

Father playfully lifting his daughter in the air

New report identifies ten ways Canadian businesses can better support children’s rights

First ever Child Rights and Business Assessment launched in Canada

The Power of Possibility

In October 2019, six members of UNICEF Canada’s Women Unlimited travelled to Ghana for their first field visit, as part of a four year philanthropic journey. One of the members, Lisa Letwin, provided us this reflection on her experiences and how philanthropy really means the power of possibility.