Legal Guidance

Copyright © UNICEF Ethiopia 

UNICEF Ethiopia uses its digital platforms to inform, engage, and inspire action in support of children's rights, humanitarian response, and sustainable development efforts that improve the lives of children and communities across Ethiopia.

Unless otherwise stated, all content published on UNICEF Ethiopia's digital platforms, including text, photographs, videos, graphics, illustrations, reports, publications, and other multimedia materials, is protected by copyright and applicable intellectual property laws.

Requests to reproduce, republish, translate, adapt, distribute, or otherwise use UNICEF Ethiopia content beyond personal, educational, or other non-commercial purposes should be submitted to [email protected], together with details of the proposed use, target audience, distribution channels, and intended duration.

UNICEF Ethiopia content may not be used in any manner that is misleading, defamatory, discriminatory, political, commercial, or otherwise inconsistent with UNICEF's mandate, values, and principles.

Certain materials may be subject to third-party copyright, licensing, or usage restrictions. Where applicable, these rights will be clearly indicated, and additional permission may be required from the relevant rights holder.

The reproduction, redistribution, or repackaging of UNICEF Ethiopia content in print, digital, broadcast, or other formats without prior written authorization is prohibited.

UNICEF Ethiopia Social Media Policy

UNICEF Ethiopia maintains official accounts on a range of social media and digital platforms, including but not limited to:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• X (formerly Twitter)
• LinkedIn
• YouTube
• Flickr

These platforms are used to share UNICEF's advocacy, humanitarian response, programmatic results, partnerships, and engagement with communities and the public. We encourage audiences to follow UNICEF Ethiopia's official channels to stay informed about our work and impact.

UNICEF Ethiopia may engage with content from other organizations, institutions, and individuals through its social media accounts. This may include sharing, reposting, commenting on, liking, tagging, or otherwise interacting with third-party content. Such interactions do not imply endorsement of any organization, individual, product, service, opinion, or content.

UNICEF Ethiopia reserves the right to moderate comments and remove content that is unlawful, abusive, discriminatory, misleading, defamatory, spam-related, harmful to children, or inconsistent with UNICEF's values and safeguarding standards.

Use of UNICEF Ethiopia Photography and Multimedia Content

UNICEF Ethiopia’s photographs published on Flickr are made available under a Creative Commons licence, which governs their use and distribution. Users are encouraged to review the applicable licence terms, including the Legal Code and the Human-Readable Deed, before using any images.

For further information regarding the use of UNICEF Ethiopia photographic material, please contact [email protected].

Privacy and Child Safeguarding

UNICEF Ethiopia is committed to protecting the privacy, dignity, safety, and best interests of children featured in its communications and digital content.

All UNICEF Ethiopia content is created and published in accordance with UNICEF’s child safeguarding, ethical storytelling, data protection, and informed consent standards.

Users may not reproduce, manipulate, alter, or repurpose UNICEF Ethiopia content in ways that compromise the dignity, safety, identity, or rights of children and communities represented in the content.