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Spotlight publications

Report

For every child, every right

Historic gains and undeniable achievements, but little progress for the world’s poorest children

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Wayuú families receiving education on behavioral practices through the UNICEF-supported program "Seres de Cuidado", where health services and civil registry are also provided, in the community of Uribia, Colombia.

Flagship Report

The State of the World’s Children 2019

Children, food and nutrition: Growing well in a changing world

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Report

An open letter to the world’s children

by UNICEF’s Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore

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Children celebrate World Children’s Day in Dhaka at a Goodwill Cricket Match organized by UNICEF Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Cricket Board.

Report

UNICEF annual report 2018

Read 2018 results that UNICEF achieved, together with partners and supporters

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Latest publications

Report

Marketing of breast-milk substitutes

Status report 2020

27/05/2020

A 9 year-old waiting for her clothes to dry near her new home, a former warehouse now housing over 5,000 people displaced from eastern Aleppo, Syria.

Report

Lost at Home

The challenges for internally displaced children and the urgent actions needed to protect them

06/05/2020

Report

Material risks of gender-based violence in emergency setting

Is gender-based violence (GBV) impacting your investment?

09/04/2020

Teacher and his students singing while on their way to their class, which is a temporary tent school in Kasaï region, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Report

On life support

A battered health system leaves DRC children at the mercy of killer diseases

31/03/2020

Report

Build to Last

A framework to advance access to pre-primary education

31/03/2020

Young children in Kiribati wash their hands outside in 2019.

Document

Guidance for COVID-19 Prevention and Control in Schools

Read Interim guidance from UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

10/03/2020

Girls attending class at BiBi Mehro Girls High School, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Report

A new era for girls

Taking stock on 25 years of progress

04/03/2020

Sumaiya developed a high fever on the 16th day of her birth, and she was taken to Patukhali Sadar Hospital the next day in Bangladesh. She returned home after 8 days of treatment in the hospital.

Report

Every child’s right to survive

A 2020 agenda to end pneumonia deaths

30/01/2020

Mali. An injured boy shows a bandaged arm.

Report

Crisis in the Central Sahel

A surge in armed violence is having a devastating impact on children’s survival, education, protection and development

28/01/2020

Group work helps students to learn from each other. This is one of the techniques teachers are being taught from Pedagogical Advisors to improve quality education at Phonkeo Primary School, Saravane Province Lao PDR.

Report

Addressing the learning crisis

How are education resources distributed across segments of society?

19/01/2020

On 21 November 2019, Hanifa and her husband Nabih and five of their six children sit on the floor of their one-room house in Shayadee camp for internally displaced people near Herat in Afghanistan.

Report

Preserving hope in Afghanistan

Protecting children in the world’s most lethal conflict

17/12/2019

Prashenjit is held by his mother Hoimanti Bhaumik, who is holding his birth registration card at Mirtinga Tea Estate in Maulavi Bazar, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Report

Birth registration for every child by 2030

Are we on track?

10/12/2019