UNICEF Europe and Central Asia

From across the region

Baurzhan and his sister in during of walk near their school.

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Baurzhan, advocate for HIV-positive youth in Kazakhstan

Helping teenagers with HIV find their voice

Maria Alexandrova at her apartment building in Dabnika district of Vratsa.

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Maria in Bulgaria, Advocate for inclusive education

How one teenager changed exam rules

A young refugee

Press release

08 November 2019

60,000 young refugees and migrants who arrived in Italy alone need ongoing support through transition to adulthood – UN Agencies

Ibrahim Kondeh, a 20-year-old from Sierra Leone, stands outside the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome

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Ibrahim Kondeh, advocate for migrant youth in Italy

From Sierra Leone to Italy: a personal diary shows what it means to be a young migrant

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

30 Years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

July 2016, children's playground in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan.

Press release

12 November 2019

Mayors from Europe and Central Asia pledge support to prioritize children and young people

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