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A group of children between 5 and 13 years of age pose smiling in front of the camera in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.

News note

04 December 2023

Latin America and the Caribbean: Less than 4 per cent of climate funding considers the needs of children

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Un jóven de perfil con el cielo al fondo

News note

01 December 2023

Latin America and the Caribbean: Every day 30 adolescents and young people become infected with HIV for the first time

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Ahmad, 5-year-old sitting on his mattress in one of the shelter courtyards surrounded by several hundred other displaced people.

Statement

01 December 2023

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the resumption of fighting in Gaza

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grupo de niños y niñas jugando a saltar la cuerda.

Article

Learning Passport Jamaica

Strengthening literacy and numeracy skills for elementary school students

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bebé recién nacido apoyado en el pecho de su padre en plan canguro

Article

Cradling hope through skin-to-skin contact

How the UNICEF Kangaroo Family Care Programme works in Panama

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Group of children in a classroom playing with Lego blocks

Article

Learning Passport Costa Rica

‘Aprendo Pura Vida’: Strengthening Learning in Children and Adolescents

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Latin America and the Caribbean: Less than 4 per cent of climate funding considers the needs of children

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Almost 60 per cent of child-focused SDGs are off track in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Inspirational stories about children, their families and the people we work with from across the region.

Latin America and the Caribbean: Less than 4 per cent of climate funding considers the needs of children

Learning Passport Jamaica

Cradling hope through skin-to-skin contact

Learning Passport Costa Rica

Latin America and the Caribbean: Less than 4 per cent of climate funding considers the needs of children

Latin America and the Caribbean: Every day 30 adolescents and young people become infected with HIV for the first time

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the resumption of fighting in Gaza

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell’s remarks at the UN Security Council briefing on the protection of children in Gaza

Almost 60 per cent of child-focused SDGs are off track in Latin America and the Caribbean

“Children live in a world that is increasingly hostile to their rights”

31 premature babies at imminent risk of death relocated from Al-Shifa hospital

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on her visit to Gaza

Latin America and the Caribbean: 1 in 6 children exposed to severe water scarcity

Lives of one million children ‘hanging by a thread,’ as child health services almost collapse across the Gaza Strip

Migrant teenagers

From gray skies to rainbows

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