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  • Children and Youth in Care: Writing Their Own Life Stories

    Children in care often face additional barriers during their journey of growth and development, and it’s important to recognize when they successfully overcome those challenges - on Children and Youth in Care Day and every day.
  • Helping child soldiers lay down their guns for good

    Posted by UNICEF Canada ·

    On the International Day Against the Use of Child Soldiers, we're using our voice to protect the children recruited and used by armed groups as conflicts around the world become more brutal, intense and widespread.
  • Haiti: Land of Dreams

    Posted by David Morley ·

    You can still see the scars of the Haiti earthquake, but the country is rebounding. The foundations are being laid for a more hopeful future - through education.
  • Fighting Ebola in West Africa

    Posted by UNICEF Canada ·

    In this photo essay, see how UNICEF is working to contain the deadly Ebola outbreak in Liberia, West Africa.
  • Shining a light on child labour

    Posted by Guest Author ·

    On World Day Against Child Labour, discover what is being done to help bring 168 million children out of darkness.
  • World Water Day: 5 Facts

    Posted by UNICEF Canada ·

    March 22 is World Water Day. This is a day to acknowledge water as a basic human right and life-saving necessity. While the global target set in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for safe drinking water was met in 2010, we cannot rest until every child enjoys their right to water and sanitation.
  • Safa from Syria: an inspirational story

    Posted by UNICEF Canada ·

    Safa lost her right leg while fleeing an attack in Syria. Now this brave six-year-old lives in a refugee camp in Jordan, where she and her family are gaining a sense of normalcy. See what a typical day is like for Safa in Za’atari.
  • 230 million children are invisible without birth registration

    Posted by David Morley ·

    Every child has the right to be registered at birth without discrimination. According to UNICEF’s new report released Dec. 11, Every Child’s Birth Right: Inequities and Trends in Birth Registration, nearly 230 million children under five have never been registered. That means that one-third of all children under five in the world do not officially exist — they are invisible.