Latin America and the Caribbean

On 23 April 2019 in Cucuta in Colombia, Sahid ALexander Valero (4 months old) receives one of the four vaccines he got this day ( Rotavirus, polio, the pentavalent, and neumococus) on a health center supported by UNICEF in Cucuta, Colombian border with Venezuela. His mother, Belmar Moncada carried him for two and a half hours from El Tachira, in Venezuela, to this point. "This is very important hes benefiting, so he wont get sick, he wont get any kind of illness. And to have him healthy, to have him warm th

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Mass campaign to vaccinate over 3 million children against polio kicks off in Venezuela

14/07/2019

On 19 June 2019 in Tijuana, Mexico (right) UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore speaks with [NAME CHANGED] Nadia and her one-year old child. Nadia is from Guerrero, Mexico. She had to leave her home due to extortion, she was scared for her and her daughter. Now she wants to go to the US to look for better opportunities and to feel safe again.

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Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore following three-day visit to Mexico

21/06/2019

Colombia. A woman feeds her baby in an accommodation centre.

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From Venezuela to Colombia, Yamileth isn’t alone

Migrant families from Venezuela are traveling hundreds of kilometres on foot. But support comes in many forms

12/06/2019

4 June 2019: A child playing on the roof of El Carmen school in Barrio Union, Petare, in the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela. It is too dangerous to play outside and children head straight home as soon as they leave school. Even a basketball hoop right outside the school was removed to discourage children from hanging out outdoors.

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UNICEF ramps up humanitarian assistance to children in Venezuela, delivers 55 tons of health supplies since January

3.2 million children – or 1 in 3 – need assistance

07/06/2019

Adolescents in Nepal perform a sketch on child marriage as part of a global programme to help end child marriage

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115 million boys and men around the world married as children - UNICEF

First ever analysis on child grooms brings global child marriage figures to 765 million

06/06/2019

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A father from the start

With the help of family-friendly policies, couples in Cuba break gender norms by sharing parenting responsibilities

06/06/2019

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Where education has no borders

Each day, almost 3,000 Venezuelan children cross the border for the Colombian city of Cúcuta – just to get to school.

31/05/2019

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For many Venezuelan children, hope begins at dawn

UNICEF and partners in Colombia are providing much-needed assistance to Venezuelans crossing the border

03/05/2019

Una niña sonríe en un centro de aprendizaje temporal en Venezuela EN

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“My friends were in class, but I was sleeping on cardboard”

A teenager and her family left Venezuela for Brazil. UNICEF learning spaces are making the transition to a new education system a little less daunting

05/04/2019

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Tales of love and hope

Uprooted families from Central America share their dreams

05/03/2019

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