Climate change is changing children. Every child has the right to grow up healthy and safe. However, repercussions from climate change are robbing them of this right, as it continues to lead to illness, diseases and even death.
It is time for decision-makers to fully commit to action and for child-sensitive climate finance to be radically increased. Governments can leave the best possible legacy by investing in the bold, child-focused climate action that children and future generations so desperately need.
On average, one Palestinian child was killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, every two days since October 2023, a nearly two-and-a-half-fold increase from the previous nine months
To mark Black History Month, UNICEF Canada Youth Advocate Harantxa reflects on the experiences of discrimination that many Black children and youth face.
Why should you talk about Black history? It adds to the truth of our story, the good, the bad, and yes, even the ugly, all pieced together to form a mosaic that has yet to be completed. If we want to seek the truth, then we need to take the time to learn this story. The Black story of history.
UNICEF is deeply concerned by the significant increase in reports of grave violations against children in parts of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The number of incidents has tripled since the latest escalation of violence which began on 24 January 2025.
