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Braving COVID-19 to Document Nigeria's Children

While COVID-19 is making the experience of registering each new birth difficult, birth registrars are braving the virus to ensure each newborn is registered.

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Chibok Girls: Bring Back Their Childhood

In 2014, the world witnessed the abduction of more than 276 school girls taken from their school in the town of Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria, triggering a massive solidarity movement on social media with celebrities calling on the governments of the world to act. We wanted to bring them back, to live their childhood as any child - any girl - should be entitled to. Yet, more than five years later, more than 100 of the “Chibok girls” are still missing. Worse, 110 more girls were abducted, and five lost their lives, in February 2018 in Dapchi, northeast Nigeria.

Bringing healthcare to hard-to-reach communities in Nigeria

Mobile health teams, funded by Global Affairs Canada, are helping to ensure that children receive polio vaccinations, while also providing basic health services in hard-to-reach areas of Nigeria.

Ending Child Labour at Every Step of the Supply Chain

Millions of children around the world are trapped in child labour, depriving them of their childhood, their health and education, and condemning them to a life of poverty and want. Of course, there is work that children do to help their families in ways that are neither harmful nor exploitative. But many children are stuck in unacceptable work for children – a serious violation of their rights.

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5 examples of how UNICEF is helping children survive around the world

Although the world has made dramatic progress in reducing global rates of under-five child mortality, newborn deaths have declined at a slower pace. Find out what UNICEF is doing to help children survive.

Meet Canadians who are helping to build a better world

From February 4-10, Canada celebrates International Development Week. It’s our chance to recognize Canadians who are helping to make the world a better place. UNICEF has hundreds of Canadians working to protect and promote the rights of vulnerable children. Meet just a few of them!

Children under attack in 2017

For children trapped in conflict zones around the world, 2017 has been a ‘nightmare year’.

Education under attack in Borno, Nigeria

The new school year in northeast Nigeria is bittersweet. Education has been one of the biggest causalities of the Boko Haram conflict, with over 3 million children now in need of emergency education support so that they can get back to school and get a decent education.

Seven Canadians making a difference in UNICEF's famine response

Meet seven Canadians working to provide urgent humanitarian relief to children at risk of famine.

Unwitting victims

Marked by massive violations of children’s rights, the Lake Chad Basin conflict has shattered countless lives

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