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Flagship Report

The State of the World's Children 2021

On My Mind: Promoting, protecting and caring for children’s mental health

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Dear G20 leaders: Vaccine equity is a must for Africa

Vaccine inequity leaves lower income countries – many of them in Africa – at the mercy of COVID-19

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Press release

15 October 2021

FACT SHEET: On Global Handwashing Day, UNICEF warns that 3 in 10 people do not have basic handwashing facilities at home to fight off infectious diseases

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A production still from Prashna, a short drama from India which has been selected for competition in the 2nd edition of the UNICEF Innocenti Film Festival in Florence, Italy.

Press release

14 October 2021

UNICEF Innocenti Film Festival tells stories of childhood from around the world

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Pakistan. A child is checked for malnutrition.

Statement

15 October 2021

Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and CEO of the Eleanor Crook Foundation William Moore ahead of World Food Day

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Broadcast

Hidden Heroes

A podcast series that follows women and girls around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic as they rise against injustice

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Afghanistan. Internally displaced Afghan families walk past tents in Kabul.

Article

Delivering for Afghanistan’s children

UNICEF is continuing to work with partners to support children and their families across the country

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UNICEF classroom installation with a blackboard.

Campaign

#ReopenSchools

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UNICEF’s work

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. And we never give up.