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A young girl standing, looking down as her mom does her hair

22 November 2021

Vaillante, an original series shedding light on child marriage

A portrait of a young woman with her afro hair in an updo, wearing a blue shirt

22 November 2021

Vaillante

The fictional miniseries shedding light on child marriage

19 October 2020

COVID-19: ECOWAS Ministers Recommend Zero Tolerance to Sexual and Gender-based Violence

Aichatou Moussa, 16 years old at the Centre of Female Victims of Fistula

A New Era for Girls

Taking stock of 25 years of progress

(PDF, 3,60 MB)

Aichatou Moussa, 16 years old at the Centre of Female Victims of Fistula

25 years of uneven progress: Despite gains in education, world still a violent, highly discriminatory place for girls – UNICEF

Two and a half decades after the historic Beijing women’s conference, violence against women and girls still not only common, but accepted

More than 1,000 children in northeastern Nigeria abducted by Boko Haram since 2013

Four years on from Chibok abduction, UNICEF continues to call for children’s release and immediate end to attacks on schools

Statement on the return of girls abducted from a school in Dapchi by Mohamed Malick Fall, Representative UNICEF Nigeria

23 February 2018

Statement on attack against Bursari Government Girls Science Secondary School in northeast Nigeria

Statement from Marie-Pierre Poirier, UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Director

Bad Blood Cover - A Girl Walking away from the camera

01 February 2017

"Bad Blood"

Perceptions of children born of conflict-related sexual violence

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On 16 April, Binta Mahamadou cradles her twin son and daughter, Mahamadou and Khadidja, inside her family’s tent shelter in the Dar es Salam camp in the Baga Sola area, in the Lake Region.

Beyond Chibok

Over 1.3 million children uprooted by Boko Haram violence

(PDF, 13,76 MB)