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From across the region

Fatou Sanneh (17) behind the coffee bar at the café where she works in Palermo, Italy.

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Recipes for success

Young refugees and migrants embrace and enrich Italian food culture

On 21 September 2018 in Ukraine, Sasha Shapovalenko, 9, at home in Bakhmutka in the Donetsk Region.

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Children living in protracted conflicts are three times more likely to die from water-related diseases than from violence – UNICEF

Oleksiy Dukhovy, a water worker, stands next to his truck that hit an anti-tank mine in a conflict-affected eastern Ukraine, February 2019.

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Workers risk lives restoring water supplies in conflict-affected Donbas

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

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The birds, the bees, and now ‘Shnet’!

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

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.

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Vaccination against measles outbreak ongoing in Ukraine

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

Patrik, who is on the autism spectrum, uses his tablet computer to help with communicating.

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Tablets break down communication barriers for children

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

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