UNICEF Europe and Central Asia

From across the region

Children eating

Press release

08 October 2019

Poor diets damaging children’s health worldwide, warns UNICEF

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Rita Ora: “I feel inspired working with UNICEF"

UNICEF UK Ambassador

A woman holds a child

Press release

14 October 2019

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

Boy holding fruit

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In Kazakhstan, eating well can be a daily struggle

A boy and his mother explain why sticking to a healthy diet is hard when temptation is around every corner.

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

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The CRC@30: For Every Child... Every Right

30 Years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

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