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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.

Two former child soldiers pose with their arms around each other.

In the COVID-19 vaccine race, we either win together or lose together

Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

On 8 October 2020 at Gurei Health Care Centre in Juba, South Sudan, Elisabeth Abraham Loro, nurse and vaccinator, collects vaccines from a cold box.

Going the Distance to Eliminate MNT with Female Health Workers

UNICEF-trained community health workers won't stop until they've vaccinated every woman of reproductive age against tetanus, even in the hardest-to-reach parts of the world.