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Enhancing Gender in Humanitarian Response
Gender equality is a human right, and mainstreaming a gender perspective in all UNICEF policies, programmes and operations.
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UNICEF South Asia Gender Mainstreaming Strategy 2018-2021
Gender Equality and Rights in South Asia
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When poor health care threatens our newborn babies’ lives...
There is plenty that mothers and families can do to help protect their newborns. It is not all in the hands of doctors, nurses and birth attendants.
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01 January 2019
New Year’s Babies: Over 395,000 children will be born worldwide on New Year’s Day - UNICEF
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28 December 2018
World has failed to protect children in conflict in 2018: UNICEF
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18 December 2018
Orlando Bloom meets children working in Bangladesh slums in powerful installment of photography series
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![Swaddled in blankets and sleeping, 1-day-old Sebastian is held by his father, Rigoberto Gua, an indigenous Mayan man, in the maternity ward at Cobán Hospital in the city of Cobán, in Cobán Municipality in Alta Verapaz Department. UNICEF supports the hospital in partnership with the Ministry of Health. [#1 IN SEQUENCE OF FIVE]](/rosa/sites/unicef.org.rosa/files/styles/large/public/UNI139096_0.jpg?itok=zX8TzU1Z)
