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Emergencies and humanitarian Action

We work to provide safe spaces for children to help them recover from natural disasters or man-made crisis.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on killing of polio workers in Afghanistan

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Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on school attacks in Afghanistan and Cameroon

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Conflict, climate crisis and COVID-19 pose great threats to the health of women and children

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Preserving hope in Afghanistan

Protecting children in the world’s most lethal conflict

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An adolescent boy looks starkly into the camera, standing in a classroom riddled with bullet holes in the concrete walls.

Nine Afghan children killed or maimed daily in world’s most lethal warzone – UNICEF

Parties must protect children, end targeting of schools and clinics

Ahmad Parsa is recieving an oral immunization drop.

Vaccinating amidst insecurity: Ahmed Parsa’s right to health

[CRC Article 24 – the right to the best health care possible] In Afghanistan, only 1 in 2 children are fully-immunised. Increasing violence on healthcare...

Yathusia looks confidently at the camera in her school uniform: braids (black hair), a white button-up and black tie. On the desk in front of her a textbook and notebook are open and pen is in her hand. In the dark, blurred background another student is sitting with her back to the camera.

In Sri Lanka, children are forced to abandon their dreams

[Youth Skills] Conflict took Yathusia's father, home, four years of education and her dreams. But she is still determined to make a career for herself.....

Naqibullah, an adolescent boy, looks at the camera with determination. He is wearing a black pakol, light red shirt and grey-brown sports jacket. A beige wall is in the background.

Naqibullah is finally looking toward the future

[Youth Skills] Conflict ruptured Naqibullah's family, forcing him out of school and into child labour. At 17, he's saved enough to attend evening classes...

Yeasminara, a young girl in a burgundy hijab, sews next to a window with light streaming in.

A sense of self, a sense of life – Yeasminara

[CRC Article 8 – the right to an identity] “In Bangladesh, I am registered as a refugee, but I am more than that. I have a separate.....