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Girls’ Education in Uganda: Water, Sanitation and School Attendance

Gender equality and the empowerment of girls and women is at the heart of UNICEF’s mandate to realize the rights of all children.

Children wash their hands at a school WASH club

UNICEF REPORT CARD 13: Fairness for Children

Global Goals: Sustainable Development for Every Child’s Future

Objects I Carried With Me: Stories from Syrian Children

March 15 marks the 8th year-mark of the war in Syria. There are now millions of children living in Syria, and in neighboring countries, who have never known anything but war. This photo series takes you through the memories of Syrian children – now living in Za’atari Refugee Camp – and the objects they brought with them that encapsulate those memories.

A Syrian boy holds a photo of himself in kindergarten.

Statement on the situation in Yemen

Joint statement by Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, and Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, on the Situation in Yemen

Go Blue for Black Friday

Why brave the cold and the crowds when UNICEF Market has thousands of products – all available at the click of a button?

UNICEF strengthens support for women and children in Venezuela

UNICEF has flown in nearly 130 tonnes of medicines, health and nutrition supplies for 350,000 women and children in Venezuela since August to boost Government efforts to alleviate the impact of the ongoing economic crisis on the most vulnerable.

Finally! A social policy “thermometer” to measure our kids’ wellbeing

When your baby has a fever, you reach for a thermometer. The Canadian Index of Child and Youth Well-being is designed to function like a social policy “thermometer" - to measure and communicate how well Canadian children and youth are actually doing, as opposed to how well we think they are doing.

Millions of the world’s poorest urban children are more likely to die young and less likely to complete primary school than their rural peers—UNICEF

The poorest urban children in 1 in 4 countries are more likely to die before their fifth birthday than the poorest children in rural areas. And the poorest urban children in 1 in 6 countries are less likely to complete primary school than their counterparts in rural areas, according to a new UNICEF report released today.

UNICEF

UNICEF is the United Nations Children's Fund.  Active in over 190 countries, it promotes the rights and wellbeing of every child in 190 countries and territories, with a special focus on reaching those in greatest need. 