13 November 2024

Urgent need for investment in programmes against violent discipline: Nauru’s first-ever nationwide MICS

Nauru, 13 November 2024, – The Nauru Bureau of Statistics officially launched Nauru’s first ever Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2023 results today to support the Government in providing reliable data to measure progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. “The first-ever Multiple Indicator Cluster Sur...
07 May 2024

SIDS Global Children and Youth Action Summit

What is the SIDS Youth Summit?, The SIDS Global Children & Youth Action Summit (CYAS) is a ground-breaking event aimed at empowering young people from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to address the complex challenges facing their communities. Held from 24-26 May 2024 in Antigua and Barbuda ahead of the 4...
29 February 2024

Tuvalu launches typhoid campaign

Funafuti, Tuvalu 29 February 2024, – The Tuvalu Department of Health launched their typhoid vaccination campaign last week. Funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), and UNICEF, the Tuvalu Department of Health launched the vaccination campaign at a ceremony at the Niutao Community Ha...
24 November 2023

Outcome Document: Follow up visit of the CRC

United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child Follow-Up Visit to the Pacific 13-22 November 2023 Apia, Samoa Outcome Document To encapsulate the positive outcomes over the course of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child’s first ever Follow-Up Visit to the Pacific, and to envision a pathway ...
20 November 2023

General Comment 26 launched in the Pacific.

Apia, 20 th November 2023 –, On the occasion of World Children’s Day, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child launched its new guidance on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change, together with children and representatives of Pacific Island Countries. Known as General Comme...
20 November 2023

Against the Current: Tuvalu's Rising Stars in the Pacific Games

Tuvalu Meet Lisaima Kavatia and Asaia Eliko, two determined 16-year-old athletes from Tuvalu with a strong passion for sports. "I always ensure to train and dedicate myself to volleyball, and I feel incredibly proud to represent Tuvalu." Lisaima, an athletic youth who represented her island through mini-games arou...
10 November 2023

CRC Committee Returns to the Pacific to take stock of children’s rights.

Suva, Apia, 10 th November 2023 -, Three years after its 84 th Extraordinary Outreach Session in Apia, Samoa, the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC Committee) is returning to the Pacific to meet with Pacific Island Countries to take stock of their efforts to advance children’s rights. The 10-day mission wi...
30 September 2022

Tuvalu supported with two 4x4 vehicles to continue strong COVID-19 vaccination efforts

Funafuti, 30 September 2022, – The Government of Japan and UNICEF have handed over two 4x4 vehicles to the Tuvalu Ministry of Health, Social Welfare and Gender Affairs to boost COVID-19 vaccination efforts in the country and protect communities against severe symptomatic illness from the virus. In addition, the ve...
20 October 2021

Tuvalu launches MICS data to strengthen its commitment in improving the wellbeing of its people

Funafuti, Tuvalu, 8 October 2021, – Tuvalu, a Pacific Island country with a population of almost 12,000, joins more than 118 countries globally as well as three countries in the region with the recent launch of nationwide data on the status of women and children from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS). T...
27 February 2020

For Every Child, Every Right

Suva, 27 February 2020, – UNICEF is supporting Cook Islands and Tuvalu prepare for their reporting on how they are upholding the rights of children at the upcoming 84th Extraordinary Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child which will be held in Samoa next week. In Article 44 of the Convention, State Pa...
18 February 2020

84th Session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in Samoa

Convention on the Rights of the Child, In 1989, world leaders adopted an international legal framework - the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Today, the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history has helped transform children’s lives around the world, inspiring governments to put chil...
23 October 2019

15 Pacific island governments take a giant step forward on Early Childhood Development

SUVA, 23 October, 2019 –, Today, government ministers from 15 Pacific island countries and from several sectors, including education, finance, health and social welfare, announced a new Pacific Regional Council for Early Childhood Development, at a three-day forum being held from 23 to 25 October in Nadi, Fiji. Fi...