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Empowering the future of Pakistan

UNICEF Pakistan’s Gender Strategy 2024-2027 puts the socio-ecological model at the centre of its framework to address inequalities and structural barriers that hamper progress toward gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. It aims to accelerate the implementation of the Country Programme Document (CPD) for 2023-2027. In line with the UNICEF Gender Action Plan 2022-2025, a number of principles guided the development of the strategy...

02 November 2023

Breaking barriers through education

Battagram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: It’s a chilly and overcast morning as children navigate the steep and narrow lanes of Battagram colony in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The intermittent rain has made the streets slippery and the children exercise caution as they climb. While roughly 30 chil...

Improving access to water and sanitation in rural Punjab

JHANG, Punjab, Pakistan – 11 August 2022: “When a WASH club was formed in our school in 2018, I was the first student to become a member!” 17-year-old Nida Mumtaz proudly tells. “At first, my friends were annoyed when I told them to wash their hands,” the girl says. “They would argue that their hands were already ...

Santex & UNICEF Launch #NoChuttiPlus Campaign

KARACHI, 24 May 2022: In a bid to address the high prevalence of Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH) challenges amongst adolescent girls in Pakistan, Santex Products (Pvt.) Ltd., a pioneering female hygiene products company, and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), in collaboration with the School Education & Literacy Department,…

We must prioritize girls in our COVID-19 recovery

ISLAMABAD/ NEW YORK, 8 March 2022 – “On International Women’s Day, we acknowledge the international community’s hard-fought gains for the world’s women and girls. We celebrate the remarkable achievements of women and girls in our societies. And we redouble our commitment to extend those gains to every girl, e...

Bringing Out-of-School girls Back to Education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

HANGU, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 15 March 2021 – For sixteen-year-old Malaika, getting back to education was like getting back to life. The adolescent, who comes from a poor family in Jhandi Darsamand village in Hangu, a district of Pakistan’s northeastern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, had stopped going to school after c...

08 February 2021

Meena's Adventures

These stories feature Meena as she deals with different situations in her life with the help of her pet parrot "Mitthu".

Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders at School

Lasbela, Balochistan, Pakistan - 17 March 2020: “My mother always told me that the greatest satisfaction in life is achieved by giving others a reason to smile,” says 15-year-old Khadija Sadiq, Eighth grader at the UNICEF-supported Government Girls Middle School in Moosani, in Balochistan’s Lasbela distr...

11 October 2019

UNRC's statement on International Day of the Girl

Every year on 11 October, the International Day of the Girl, United Nations and partners work with girls to amplify their voices and stand up for their rights. This year, under the theme, “GirlForce: Unscripted and unstoppable”, we will celebrate achievements by, with and for girls since the adoption of the Beijin...

15 October 2018

A cherished chance of going to school

Lasbela, Balochistan - October 2018: In Balochistan’s rural universe – a barren land with patches of green bushes and population pockets living in scattered houses -- schools are a rarity. And even when there is one, parents are often reluctant to let their daughters leave home and go to school. One girl was lucki...

11 October 2018

On the International Day of the Girl, UNICEF calls on improving employability skills

Islamabad, Pakistan - 11 October 2018: On International Day of the Girl, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) calls on improving girls’ access to education and employment in Pakistan and worldwide. Today's generation of girls is preparing to enter a world that is being transformed by innovation an...

UNICEF joins Government of Pakistan in condemning attacks on schools in Gilgit-Baltistan

Islamabad, Pakistan - 4 August 2018: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) joins the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Justice (Retd) Nasir-ul-Mulk, in strongly condemning the ransacking and torching of schools, most of which were girls’ schools, in Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan. UNICEF firmly believes t...