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Every Child has the Right: Ukrainian Faces of CRС
This year world community is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Ukraine has ratified this Convention by the Parliament of Ukraine decree №789ХІІ and it came into force for Ukraine on 27 September 1991.

Immunization Crisis in Ukraine
It is a busy morning in public polyclinic No. 5 in Ukraine’s southern city of Odessa as many parents have brought their children for vaccination. Per guidelines from the Ministry of Health in Ukraine, total of 10 mandatory vaccines for children.

Family Centre Opening in Yabluniv
UNICEF supports opening of the first Family Center in Ivano-Frankivsk region to service parents and young children in the rural areas.

CRC@20: Ukrainian children are drawing their rights (part 2)
In 2009 the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is celebrated worldwide. Observing this anniversary, the pupils of Art Studio “Muzeum” from Chernivtsi, Ukraine were drawing their rights. [Kravchenko Galina, 15-year-old girl]

CRC@20: Ukrainian children are drawing their rights (part 1)
In 2009 the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is celebrated worldwide. Observing this anniversary, the pupils of Art Studio “Muzeum” from Chernivtsi, Ukraine were drawing their rights.

A Perfect Future
Can a furnishings company contribute to improving the world? With UNICEF, IKEA co-financed a child development project in one of the poorest of Ukraine’s regions.

Red Card to Child Neglect: Football to Protect Child Rights in Ukraine
In Ukraine number of children living in the streets estimates up to 300,000. New UNICEF initiative aims to address child neglect by engaging young people in sport

Roma children in Ukraine
In Ukraine live over 130 nationalities. According to the 2001 census, 47,917 persons are ethnically Roma. However, unofficial sources estimate the number of Roma to be up to 400,000 persons in country.

Floods in the Western Ukraine
Heavy rains in the Carpathian Mountains in July 2008 resulted in floods affecting 6 Ukrainian oblasts. Only in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 28,000 houses were ruined, 1,160 kilometres of roads washed away, 500 bridges ruined and 9,370 people evacuated.

Photo workshop for Chernobyl-affected children
From 2-7 March 2006, UNICEF held a photo workshop for children aged 12-17 from the three countries hardest hit by the disaster: Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine.

"Children's Voice" - Young Ukrainian media makers
See the youth media NGO "Children's Voice" from Kiev, Ukraine, in action. The young people have recently won a number of awards for their outstanding work.

Maternal and newborn health crisis
January 2009: Each year, more than 500,000 women die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, and nearly 4 million newborns die within the first 28 days of life.