Humanitarian Action for Children 2025: Overview

Building a better future for every child living through conflict and crises.

Pakistan. Two girls wait outside their home for a polio vaccination team in Lahore.
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Highlights

Across the globe, millions of children are being denied their fundamental rights because of a broad array of interconnected crises – from conflict and the consequences of climate change to public health emergencies and rising poverty.

This edition of UNICEF’s annual Humanitarian Action for Children highlights UNICEF’s 2025 funding appeal, which sets out an ambitious agenda to address the major challenges facing children and young people living through conflict and crises. UNICEF is appealing for $9.9 billion to support our humanitarian action in 2025. These funds will help us to reach 109 million children living through humanitarian crises with both immediate life-saving services and investments for their longer-term development.

Additional information about UNICEF humanitarian action and funding appeals at the country and regional levels is available at www.unicef.org/appeals.

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978-92-806-5620-6

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