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Supporting Migrant and Refugee Children During COVID-19

UNICEF Italy Migrant and Refugee Response Coordinator Anna Riatti shares her experience – and that of her UNICEF Italy colleagues – in helping migrant and refugee children during COVID-19.

A UNICEF Italy staff member demonstrates handwashing to a young migrant girl.

UNICEF outlining plans to transport up to 850 tonnes of COVID-19 vaccines per month on behalf of COVAX, in ‘mammoth and historic’ logistics operation

UNICEF – in partnership with Gavi and WHO – is also helping low- and lower-middle-income countries prepare to receive COVID-19 vaccines in 2021

Some of the 3,842,000 doses of bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) that arrived in Uganda on 24 April 2020 to support ongoing routine immunization services throughout the country.

Finding Light in the Dark: Top 5 Stories of Success in 2020

2020 has been a challenging year for almost everyone. However, in spite of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, UNICEF continued to make strides in protecting every child’s right to a childhood.

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

COVAX: ensuring global access to COVID-19 vaccines

UNICEF Canada is working to ensure all countries that are part of COVAX have equitable access to 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of 2021.

Children cannot afford another year of school disruption

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

On 15 April 2020 in Kyiv, Ukraine, Zlata, 7, works on schoolwork from home, with all schools in the country closed as part of measures to combat the spread of COVID-19.

To keep our children learning

For International Day of Education, we’re looking at teachers who are making sure that even when school is out, the learning doesn’t stop.

A teacher in Uganda records a lesson for a televised education broadcast.

Nutrition crisis looms as more than 39 billion in-school meals missed since start of pandemic – UNICEF and WFP

School meals, often the one nutritious daily meal that children get, must be prioritized in school reopening plans

Children from the Child Protection Service Hub having their lunch

COVAX PUBLISHES FIRST INTERIM DISTRIBUTION FORECAST

CEPI, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the World Health Organisation, as co-leads of the COVAX initiative for equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines, alongside key delivery partner UNICEF, are pleased to publish COVAX’s first interim distribution forecast.

What Is Female Genital Mutilation? Eight Important Questions Answered

How this harmful practice affects millions of girls worldwide.

When I Close My Eyes: 3 Stories of Child Soldiers

For Red Hand Day/International Day Against the Use of Child Soldiers, three former child soldiers share how the traumatic events in ‘the bush’ kept haunting them in their dreams and how the support from family and social workers have helped them.