UNICEF Europe and Central Asia

From across the region

Elias, 7, prepares to read for the class at his school in Suruc Refugee Camp, Turkey.

Press release

11 September 2019

UNHCR, UNICEF and IOM urge European states to boost education for refugee and migrant children

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Press release

More than 1,100 unaccompanied refugee and migrant children in Greece need urgent shelter and protection – UNICEF

In Croatia, according to the parents’ assessment, 57 per cent of children spend between one and three hours per day watching TV in 2015.

Press release

04 September 2019

UNICEF poll: More than a third of young people in 30 countries report being a victim of online bullying

Video

Unaccompanied refugee children share dreams and despair

New film reinforces calls to accelerate support for unaccompanied and separated refugee and migrant children in Europe

Halima Aden Visits UNICEF Programming in Italy

Press release

Halima Aden Visits UNICEF Programming in Italy

UNICEF Serbia/2019/Djordjevic

Article

The big touch of little heroes

Lenka and Miona are identical twins. They were born two months prematurely. The girls are lively and it’s already obvious to their parents that they have di

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