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A mother and baby

UNICEF parenting

Bringing together some of the world’s leading baby experts to help parents give their children the best start in life

A demonstration of fresh fruit and vegetables at a local healthy house cooking in the village Khan Pur Baga Sher, Punjab Pakistan.

The state of food security and nutrition in the world 2020

Transforming food systems for affordable healthy diets

As more go hungry and malnutrition persists, achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 in doubt, UN report warns

Securing healthy diets for the billions who cannot afford them would save trillions in costs

A mother holding her smiling baby next to her face

Global annual results reports 2019: Goal Area 1

Progress and results from 2019 by Goal Area 1: ensuring that every child has the right to life, survival and development, and to grow up healthy and strong

A woman dressed in blue smiles with a young baby sitting on her lap

Global annual results report 2019: Humanitarian action

The key humanitarian results achieved for children by UNICEF and partners in 2019

Afghanistan. A child is screened for malnutrition.

UNICEF comment on malnutrition in Afghanistan at the Geneva Palais briefing

This is a summary of what was said by Marixie Mercado, UNICEF spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

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Marketing of breast-milk substitutes

Status report 2020

A mother breastfeeding her baby in Sierra Leone.

Countries failing to stop harmful marketing of breast-milk substitutes, warn WHO and UNICEF

Agencies encourage women to continue to breastfeed during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mother and baby in Côte d'Ivoire.

As COVID-19 devastates already fragile health systems, over 6,000 additional children under five could die a day, without urgent action

UNICEF launches #Reimagine, a global campaign to prevent the pandemic from becoming a lasting crisis for children

A mother feeding her baby at the Primature health center of San Pedro, in the South West of Côte d’Ivoire.

Supporting Children’s Nutrition during COVID-19

UNICEF and WFP partnership to prevent and treat child wasting