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Namibian child delegates standing in front of Duneside High School in Walvis Bay, Namibia.

16 November 2023

Southern African children rally for their rights, urging action for equal education, climate, and protection from violence

Children and young people from Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe identify priority bold solutions to issues deeply affecting them

a young girl drinks water from the tap of a water tank

18 October 2023

Child rights and climate

The climate crisis is a child rights crisis, and it is happening NOW

Etleva Kadilli, Regional Director

Meet UNICEF’s Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, Etleva Kadilli

An adolescent girl with albinism writes her dream on the board in her classroom in Madagascar

Inclusion is strength

Young people with albinism call for acceptance

Christine

10 December 2021

Young people with disabilities demand to be treated as equal

UNICEF ESA marks Human Rights Day

Statement on behalf of the UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern & Southern Africa, Mohamed M. Malick Fall

Two girls embrace

05 February 2021

2 million additional cases of FGM likely in next decade

As COVID-19 shutters schools and disrupts programmes that help protect girls from this harmful practice

A little girl sits in a classroom

27 September 2020

Integrating Accountability to Affected People

Summary guidelines for country office planning

Files available for download (1)

English (PDF, 3 MB)

A healthy boy poses for the camera at the Health Centre in Kananga, Kasai-Occidental province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 19 October 2018

Angola prioritizes basic social services for children

COVID-19: Angolan Government committed to protect and promote child rights

Preschool children attend child-friendly spaces, Mauritania.

26 December 2019

Pan-African Child Rights Forum (PACRiF)

Recommitting to an Africa fit for children