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From across the region

Volodymyr Charushyn, 16, presenting a master-class on the creating the “interactive sign language alphabet”. Each wooden cube has a letter represented by a hand gesture and objects that have the letter in their name.

Blog post

The interactive alphabet

Bringing hearing and non-hearing people together

On 26 January 2019 in the Syrian Arab Republic, children and families are huddled together after being forced to flee their homes in nearby towns and villages, with their few belongings in Baghoz village in Hajin district in eastern rural Deir-ez-Zor before they embark on a long and ardous journey to safety at Al-Hol camp, almost 300km to the north.

Statement

2018 deadliest year yet for children in Syria as war enters 9th year

First-of-it's kind sexual education app created by young women in Kosovo (UNSCR 1244)

Blog post

The birds, the bees, and now ‘Shnet’!

First-of-it's kind sexual education app created by young women in Kosovo (UNSCR 1244)

Young girl in a wheelchair at school

Press release

75% of children with disabilities in Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia left out of inclusive, quality education

Migrant boys, who arrived in Sicily unaccompanied, pose at the remains of a church in the old town of Naro, Sicily.

Photo Essay

Young migrants revitalize Italian village

They’re often city kids, but they’ve been transferred to a rural village in the middle of Sicily.

Liubomyr Pauk, 8, held the hand of his brother, Bohdan 6, as Bohdan received his MMR vaccination from a mobile brigade of healthcare professionals on 26 February 2019 in the office of a school nurse at Mykolaiv Gymnasium, Lviv region, Western Ukraine.

Article

Vaccination against measles outbreak ongoing in Ukraine

24,000 people infected with measles during first two months of 2019

Our work

A boy carrying his belongings in a large cloth bag over his shoulder is among people walking on railway tracks to cross from the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia into Serbia.

Protecting refugee and migrant children

Ina Morhun, 5, and her sister Lyuda, 3, sit on a sofa at their home as their mother Iryna holds baby Vika, 1.5, in the city of Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine

Supporting children caught in conflict in Ukraine

A young child holds a little soft toy in her mouth while an older relative gives her a hug and kiss.

Healthy early childhood development

11-year-old Ajsa is photographed in front of a laptop, with her head in her hands.

Ending violence against children