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Joint Statement on Dose Donations of COVID-19 Vaccines to African Countries

A joint statement from the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT), the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and COVAX

April 21, 2021 - Goma, North Kivu Province, DR Congo. Nearly 100,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Goma thanks to the COVAX program. They will be deployed in the provinces of North and South Kivu.

The Right to Vote - Part One

13 young Canadians are challenging the federal voting age in court - find out why Khadijat thinks the Canada Elections Act is unconstitutional

A crisis within a crisis: Increased investment critical to end female genital mutilation as COVID-19 rages on

Joint Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem and UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation

UNICEF Geneva Palais Briefing note on the crisis in the Horn of Africa, as well as the impact of Tropical Storm Ana and Cyclone Batsirai on children and communities

Summary of what was said by UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern & Southern Africa Mohamed M Fall at February 8, 2022 press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

UNICEF meets child survivors of the attack on northeast Syria prison

UNICEF met with some of the children still detained in the Ghwayran detention centre, in al-Hasakah, northeast Syria.

ACT-Accelerator calls for fair share-based financing of US$ 23 billion to end pandemic as global emergency in 2022

World leaders launched a call to end the pandemic as a global emergency in 2022 by funding the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator

UNICEF working to assist tens of thousands following cyclone Batsirai In Madagascar

UNICEF and partners in Madagascar are urgently working to support people in need of humanitarian assistance following the devastating impact of cyclone Batsirai

Life “over there”

Children who were previously associated with armed groups describe the terrible war happening in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Urgent support needed for 1.4 million children likely to suffer from acute malnutrition in Somalia

Funding immediately needed to procure nutrition supplies and avert deaths

Haiti: Six months after the earthquake, more than 4 out of 5 schools destroyed or damaged are yet to be rebuilt

Six months after the devastating earthquake that struck southwest Haiti, more than 1,000 schools are yet to be rebuilt