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From across the region

Press release

Put the most vulnerable and marginalized first in New European Youth Strategy

Article

Tablets break down communication barriers for children

Croatia: Ensuring all children can share their thoughts and feelings.

Photo Essay

Georgia: New centres provide space for play and development

Read how support for children with disabilities is re-igniting the desire to learn.

Article

Letters of frustration and hope from Syrian refugee children

Four young people’s stories, in their own words.

Article

Winter bites on both sides of the conflict in Ukraine

Meet two families, living on opposite sides of the contact line, and struggling to make it through winter.

Video

Saving newborn lives in remote areas of Kyrgyzstan

UNICEF launches Every Child Alive campaign.

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