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Healthy, affordable eating during the COVID-19 outbreak

Une fille prepare a manger en compagnie de son pere

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Ideas to help your family maintain a nutritious diet

Protect your family’s mental health in the face of COVID-19

Xiomara, age 3, draws pictures with her father, David Fretes Paniagua, 27, in Paraguay.

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A conversation with adolescent psychology expert Dr. Lisa Damour

COVID-19 outbreak: How employers can support working parents

An eight-year-old boy in Connecticut, United States, has a snack while working on a laptop as part of his second grade class’s distance learning measures, following the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

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Children around the world need support from their parents right now. And parents need support from their employers

Tips for parenting during the COVID-19 outbreak

Coronavirus (COVID-19): Luka, 8, plays with stuffed animals in between completing school exercises on his first day of distance learning from home.

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Ideas to help parents and caregivers do the most important job in the world

Yemen is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world – and children are being robbed of their futures

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Spotlight: Children in emergencies

اليمن. صبي ينتظر أن يتم تلقيحه ضد الكوليرا في عدن، اليمن.

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Yemen conflict

After nine years of conflict, children continue to pay the heaviest price

Syria. Children stand together at an informal settlement in the Syrian Arab Republic near the Turkish border.

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Syrian crisis

The Ebola virus is relentless and devastating. UNICEF and partners are continuing to ramp up their response

Democratic Republic of Congo. A child attends school in the Ndindi neighbourhod of Beni.

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Ebola

Rohingya children: Beyond survival

Bangladesh. A child stands under the plastic roof of a shelter in a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar.

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Rohingya children and young people want more than survival – they want a hopeful future, too

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): What parents should know

Fast facts: Breaking down the global issues that impact children and young people

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How to protect yourself and your children

How to talk to your children about bullying

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Tips for parents

Measles explained: What’s behind the recent outbreaks?

A mother holds her daughter while a doctor administers a vaccine, Ukraine

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Reported cases of measles rose by 200 per cent from 2018 to 2019

Child marriage around the world infographic

Fatema, 15, in Bangladesh was saved from marriage

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Did you know 650 million girls and women alive today were married as children?

Sounding the alarm about a forgotten epidemic in Nigeria

Through the lens: Photography

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Worldwide, pneumonia claims the lives of more than 800,000 children under the age of five

The Haiti earthquake: 10 years later

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A decade after the catastrophic earthquake, UNICEF and partners are still helping Haiti along the road of recovery

A look back at some of the most striking UNICEF photos of the year

India. A mother holds up her newborn baby girl at Lady Hardinge Medical College in New Delhi.

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A year in photos

Treating HIV-positive children with speed and skill

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How innovations in rapid testing and child-friendly medicines are saving lives in Uganda.

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An estimated 1 in 10 children has a disability, and that number is even higher during emergencies. For children like Ahmad, Hamza, Sami and Eman, living in Za'atari refugee camp can be particularly difficult.

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