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Three-fold increase in civilian casualties caused by landmines and unexploded ordnance in Myanmar’s escalating conflict

Over 20 per cent of victims are children, according to UNICEF

14-year-old Paing, from Kayah State, stepped on a landmine while searching for his family’s injured cow at a neighborhood farm in eastern Myanmar. His lost his right leg, and his hands & other leg were badly injured.

Baby Eyenga receives a dose of the Malaria vaccine in Cameroon

Six-month-old Eyenga was one of thousands of children in the 42 districts of Cameroon who received the vaccine against malaria this year. The vaccine is part of the routine vaccination. Each child will have to receive 4 doses from the time they’re six months until they reach their second birthday.

A close up shot of a hand holding two vials of the malaria vaccine

An entire generation of children in Sudan faces a catastrophe as the war enters its second year

Continued brutal hostilities and potential famine creating ominous conditions for tragic loss of children’s lives

11-year-old Amna with her peers at the UNICEF supported Alshargia safe learning space or Makanna in Kassala state, Sudan.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director, Catherine Russell, following her two-day visit to the Middle East

“Children do not start wars, and they cannot end them, but they always pay the highest price," says Executive Director Catherine Russell.

Statement by UNICEF Canada on the 2024 Federal Budget

Budget 2024 takes historic steps to address child poverty, yet more progress is needed to reach every child

Removing barriers to girls’ education

UNICEF is working with communities, governments and partners to remove barriers to girls’ education and promote gender equality in education.

At a classroom in Afghanistan, a girl wearing a white headscarf holds open a book and smiles at the camera.

The Chapters of Childhood

There are some books that you don’t just read, they graft onto you. That’s what happens with Ishmael Beah’s personal story, “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.” Childhood is supposed to have many chapters to it. But some children, including Ishmael, have pages torn from their childhood and rewritten into unimaginable circumstances.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Ishmael Beah at a shelter for unaccompanied adolescents who have fled their homes due to fears for their safety.

UNICEF calls for urgent action to save Pakistan’s children on the frontlines of climate change

On Earth Day, Statement by Abdullah Fadil, UNICEF Representative in Pakistan, on the damaging impact of climate change and pollution on children

Children seen on the street in the inundated region of Geokaloi Village in the Southern Pakistani province of Sindh.

Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years

WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launch “Humanly Possible” campaign to scale up vaccination programs around the world during World Immunization Week 2024

Briefing to the United Nations Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Haiti

Remarks by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell