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Niger. A girl creates a heart sign with her hands at a transit centre in Agadez, northern Niger.

Six actions for refugee children

Ensuring equal rights and opportunities for all refugee children

On 5 March 2022, amidst the escalating conflict in Ukraine, children at the Lviv-Holovnyi railway station in Lviv, western Ukraine, wait to board an evacuation train to Przemysl, Poland.

Refugee children carry memories of home

No matter where they’re from or why they left, refugee and displaced children are children first

Poland. Olga helps Mark put his shoes on at Warsaw stadium.

Families receive support navigating uncertain futures

UNICEF is working with local partners to support Ukrainian refugees in accessing vital services

Olha is a mental health coordinator for a multidisciplinary 'Spilno' mobile team, supported by UNICEF to assist children and families displaced due to war in the country.

Mobile teams provide support to traumatized families

Child protection specialists in Ukraine such as Olga are helping fleeing mothers and their children cope with trauma and an uncertain future

Romania. A child and adult walk near the border crossing point with Ukraine.

Helplines for families fleeing Ukraine

How to receive essential services, protection and other support if you're a refugee from Ukraine entering a neighbouring country.

4 March 2022: 30 minutes after arriving by ferry from Ukraine to Isaccea, Romania, Aurelia and her two sons Nichita, 7 and Adrian, 14, are preparing to board a car which would transport them to the place where they would spend their first night in Romania.

Childhood upended by war in Ukraine

One month on, displaced children and their families are in desperate need of safety, stability and protection

Somalia. A boy holds an empty glass toward the camera.

Responding to devastating drought in Somalia

UNICEF is working with partners to support families displaced by drought and conflict

FILE PHOTO: A refugee family with 11 children entered Romania at the Isaccea border crossing. They are from Ismail, nearby Odessa, and they left the country imediately, by bus, and they took the ferrry to arrive in Romania.

Unaccompanied and separated children fleeing escalating conflict in Ukraine must be protected

Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi

Bangladesh. Three teenagers sit near a social hub.

11 February 2022

Rohingya and Bangladeshi adolescents build friendships

A UNICEF-supported social hub is helping to promote social cohesion between refugee and host communities

07 February 2022

UNHCR, IOM, OHCHR and UNICEF deeply saddened at Venezuelan baby’s death during interception at sea off Trinidad and Tobago