UNICEF Europe and Central Asia

From across the region

A woman holds a child

Press release

14 October 2019

Nearly 70,000 children displaced as violence escalates in northeast Syria

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore

Report

An open letter to the world’s children

8 reasons why I’m worried, and hopeful, about the next generation

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A row of empty cots where infants and toddlers deprived of parental care once slept.

Press release

04 October 2019

North Macedonia ends the placement of infants and toddlers in large scale institutions

Nikolina Masnic

Article

UNICEF in Montenegro supports ethical reporting on children

Serving the public interest without compromising the rights of children

Mother with a baby

Report

Supporting Families and Providing Early Childhood Education

Policy and Financing Options

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Valeria

Article

The unstoppable girl helping to shape her home town

A new youth council is having a major impact on the city

Our work

Omar (17), front, with his fellow housemates on the balcony at the reception centre where they stay in the small village of Naro, in Sicily, Italy

Protecting refugee and migrant children

Sonia, 14 remembers the teachers helping to her calm down.

Supporting children caught in conflict in Ukraine

A young child receives polio vaccine at the Kizil Oy Village Primary Health Clinic in Zomin district in Jizzakh region.

Ensuring all children receive life-saving vaccines

On 17 May 2018 in Belarus, three-year-old Agatha laughs with her mother, Ekaterina, at home in Minsk, the capital.

Ending institutionalization and keeping families together