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A child is a child: One girl's perilous journey to safety

Her name is Mary. She's from Benin City in Nigeria. When she was seventeen, Mary tried to escape a life with no prospects to work in a restaurant in Italy. Instead she was set up to be trafficked into the sex industry.

Five-fold increase in number of refugee and migrant children traveling alone since 2010 – UNICEF

Ahead of G7, UNICEF urges world leaders to adopt six-point action agenda to keep refugee and migrant children safe

Notes from the Ebola epicentre

Going to the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak is not easy – you need to mentally prepare.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake on the life of Goodwill Ambassador Sir Roger Moore

With the passing of Sir Roger Moore, the world has lost one of its great champions for children – and the entire UNICEF family has lost a great friend. In his most famous roles as an actor, Sir Roger was the epitome of cool sophistication; but in his work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, he was a passionate – and highly persuasive – advocate for children. He once said that it was up to all of us to give children a more peaceful future. Together with Lady Kristina, he worked very hard to do so.

In photos: how vaccines are transported globally

Help us save more children: donate 129 polio vaccines through UNICEF’s Survival Gifts and reach 43 kids in need.

UNICEF Child Alert on Myanmar: Fruits of rapid development and reconciliation efforts yet to reach remote, conflict-affected regions

Unresolved conflict, poverty and under-development are preventing children in more remote parts of Myanmar from reaping the benefits of the reform and reconciliation efforts being undertaken by the Government, says the UN children’s agency, UNICEF.

From cholera in Yemen to attacks on hospitals in Syria, conflict threatens lives of over 24 million children in the Middle East and North Africa

Violence and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa have put in jeopardy the health of 24 million children in Yemen, Syria, the Gaza Strip, Iraq, Libya and Sudan.

H&M Foundation and UNICEF renew partnership to make children’s early moments matter

The non-profit H&M Foundation and UNICEF today renewed their mutual commitment to improving children’s early development. The three-year partnership will continue to build on the achievements made by the organizations’ previous collaboration, aimed at driving an increased understanding of how experience and environment during early childhood can permanently and positively shape brain development.

At least 200 children lost at sea trying to reach Italian shores so far this year

As G7 leaders gather in Taormina, Sicily, UNICEF urges them to adopt six-point action agenda to keep refugee and migrant children safe

Minister Sajjan, Lt. General (ret’d) Roméo Dallaire, join South Sudanese advocate and entrepreneur James Thuch Madhier and leading child rights agencies to mark International Peacekeeping Day

Ahead of the anticipated release of Canada’s new defence policy, Minister of National Defence, The Honourable Harjit Sajjan and retired lieutenant-general Roméo Dallaire join South Sudanese refugee and social entrepreneur James Thuch Madhier in an open discussion on Canada’s role in protecting children in conflict.