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A better future for every child – World Children’s Day 2021!

Highlights from around the world as kids takeover and turn the world blue

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The Changing Childhood Project

How do you view the world today? We asked multiple generations and here are the results

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26 November 2021

UNICEF calls for urgent action to avoid further loss of life at sea

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75 years of UNICEF

Since 1946, UNICEF has been working tirelessly for child rights and for the well-being of every child.

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As part of the Spotlight Initiative, UNICEF – together with our partners across UNFPA, UNDP, UN Women and the European Union – is focused not only on responding to forms of violence, but uprooting them.

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Preventing violence starts with changing gender norms

A child protection specialist discusses what can be done on the ground to root out harmful gender norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls

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Les enfants de la communauté autochtone de Chicoy à Todos Santos Cuchumatán, dans le département de Huehuetenango (Guatemala), profitent de leur dernier jour d’école en octobre 2019.

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Gender equality

Equal rights and opportunities for girls and boys help all children fulfil their potential.

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A girl fills a can of drinking water amidst surrounding floods.

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Action for the climate crisis

Groundwork for a safe, sustainable and water-secure world for children.

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

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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’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.