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The Right to a Childhood

Celebrate childhood and the child within all of us. On the 30th anniversary of The Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF Canada urges people to help defend the right to a childhood of every child with its newest campaign.

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World Polio Day: Life as a Polio Survivor

Safia Ibrahim is a 37 year old Somali-born Canadian. When she was 1 years old, she contracted polio that rendered her unable to walk. For World Polio Day, Safia spoke with UNICEF Canada about the choice she never got to make but one that has impacted her entire life.

We didn’t know where to go: Syrian refugees on the move

Kawthar is a 25 year old mother, who fled airstrikes in Serekaniye (also known as Ras Al-Ayn) with her only daughter Barcham (2 and a half years old). They are some of the approximately 176,000 people (including almost 80,000 children) who have been displaced inside north-eastern Syria just in the last two weeks.

Syrian child sit outside a makeshift tent in Iraq

30 years of child rights: Historic gains and undeniable achievements, but little progress for the world’s poorest children – UNICEF

Urgent action and a recommitment to child rights needed to address age-old and emerging threats

Youth activists take over the future at largest National Child Day event in Canada

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, actor Finn Wolfhard send special messages to UNICEF Canada’s Youth Activism Summit

Federal government must respect First Nation children’s right to a childhood

UNICEF Canada calls on Cabinet to rescind challenge to landmark compensation decision

Over 300 children and adolescents die every day from AIDS-related causes

Some 320 children and adolescents died every day from AIDS-related causes in 2018, or 13 every hour, according to a global snapshot on children, HIV and AIDS released by UNICEF today.

Emergency Response

UNICEF aims to assist 59 million children in 64 countries in 2020. Download a free copy of the latest report on UNICEF’s role in international humanitarian and emergency crisis response and how it works to reach children in the toughest places of the world.

A World Inside a Refugee Camp: Children of Zaatari – Part 1

UNICEF Canada ambassador and teacher Bayan Yammout visited Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan – the world’s largest camp for Syrian refugees – in October 2019, to provide training for facilitators (Syrian refugees who run the UNICEF designated programs) at the camp’s Makani Centres. In a two part series, she shares her reflections on life for children in the camps.

Letter from the Future

On November 20, youth activists from across Canada gathered in Toronto and collaborated on a letter from the future.