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Shaista (10) attending her first-class in UNICEF supported Temporary learning centre in Baluchistan province, Pakistan.

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Digital Equality for Girls: A South Asian Imperative

     

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Preserving Glaciers Urgent for Children

On World Water Day 2025, UNICEF South Asia highlights children’s right to safe water

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Breaking Barriers

Creating a disability-friendly future

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Children at the table: A success or a grand failure?

Reflections from COP29 on the future of children and childhood

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Stories from across South Asia

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Dreaming Big: Dawa’s journey back to learning

Across Nepal, Community Learning Centers (CLCs) are helping out-of-school children and adolescents get back on track with education and to stay safe.

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Advika – Empowering Girls in a Unique Way

Children, youth, parents, community member and government officials come together with UNICEF to end child marriage in Odisha

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A tent full of dreams

Maryam is reclaiming her right to learn and looking towards the future by continuing her education at a UNICEF Accelerated Learning Centre in Afghanistan

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Nothing exists in a vacuum

A holistic new approach to eradicating polio - combining community awareness with improvements to sanitation – yields its first fruits.

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Improving adolescent health and nutrition in South Asia

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Nourishing South Asia

New approaches to accelerate progress on nutritional outcomes in South Asia

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Tackling the triple burden of adolescent girls’ malnutrition

Improving adolescent girls' health and nutrition in South Asia

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Fed But Not Nourished

The Growing Threat of Junk Food to Girls' Health in South Asia

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Adolescent girls’ nutrition in South Asia

This report analyses the nutritional challenges of adolescent girls and the policy and programme bottlenecks hindering effective interventions

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Information hubs

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Parenting Centre

The guidance parents and caregivers can trust to help give children the best start in life!

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Youth Centre

Youth voice matters

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COVID-19 – Information Hub

The latest COVID-19 news and resources, as well as tips to protect you and your family.

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Inside UNICEF South Asia

Read the latest ideas from the people who work to make a difference for children in South Asia

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