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Child-Friendly Governance

UNICEF seeks $3.3 billion in emergency assistance for 48 million children caught up in conflict and other crises

Forty-eight million children living through some of the world’s worst conflicts and other humanitarian emergencies will benefit from UNICEF’s 2017 appeal, which was launched today.

Children in crisis

Nearly 50 million children at risk as conflict and disaster engulf 48 countries

Schools in Syria rise from the rubble

As the intensity of violence decreases, children head back to school with UNICEF support.

Heavy fighting leaves thousands of children cold, thirsty and out of school – UNICEF

Following intense fighting over the last two days around the town of Avdiivka, Donetsk region, more than 17,000 people – including 2,500 children – are facing freezing weather without any heating, electricity or water.

Child Rights Impact Assessment

Child rights impact assessment is a systematic process to assess the potential impacts of decisions on children and their rights and promote policy coherence.

Saved in South Sudan: Nyajime’s remarkable recovery

Four-year-old Nyajime Guet was too weak to sit up on her own. Severely malnourished and near death in a medical clinic in Juba, South Sudan, she lay silently cradled in her father’s arms.

Two refugees, generations apart, tell their story in new UNICEF film

A powerful new UNICEF film presenting the parallel stories of a young Syrian refugee and a World War II child refugee was released today as a stark illustration of the challenges that refugee children continue to face.

The world must make faster progress to end female genital mutilation by 2030

Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin and UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake on the 2017 International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM

Thousands of children out of school after classrooms hit by heavy shelling in eastern Ukraine

Thousands of children have been forced out of school in eastern Ukraine due to last week’s surge in fighting. At least five schools and two kindergartens have been damaged by heavy shelling and 11 other schools have had to close, according to humanitarian organisations supporting the emergency education response in Ukraine.