UNICEF Europe and Central Asia

From across the region

Legal expert Paolo Torsello answering to UASC questions wih the U-Report on the Move team during the live chat

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Using social media to reach young refugees with legal advice

In Italy UNICEF teams up with volunteer lawyers to help young migrants navigate a complex system

Decoders

Blog post

Teenagers develop an App to fight gender-based violence

Through the innovative GjejZâ App users are empowered to help to identify the problem and take action

Didina and her children

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Turning every “no” into a “yes” to protect children

The stories of two mothers: Adina and Didina

Maxim’s volleyball medals

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After explosion, young volleyball star sets sight on future

A landmine almost killed him, but this Ukrainian teen is never giving up

Reyhan Jamalova

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Rainergy: A story of determination, success and sustainable

How one girl from a small village in Azerbaijan created a device that generates electricity from raindrops

Lejla has acted as a guardian to approximately 400 unaccompanied refugee and migrant children

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Refugee children in Bosnia: hopeful after dangerous journeys

UNICEF supported social worker/guardians provide children with vital care and emotional support

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