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Join us to #fightunfair

#FightUnfair On 20 November, which is both Universal Children’s Day and the anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), UNICEF will launch the global #FightUnfair campaign to lead voices speaking out about the most egregious and unfair situations facing children today – and commit to doing something about … Continued

Pampers and UNICEF celebrate a decade of lifesaving partnership

International celebrity and UNICEF ambassador, Emma Bunton, joins Pampers and UNICEF to reflect on the 10 year-long partnership that has helped protect the lives of tens of millions of women and their babies. An estimated 500,000 newborn lives have been saved and 100 million women and their newborns protected from the deadly disease, maternal and … Continued

7 facts about child poverty everyone should know

As we start to celebrate the lasting progress in tackling poverty around the world for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (17 October), we are bringing attention to children, who have been so often missed from poverty debates. Here are 7 facts that galvanize UNICEF and partners to take action to end child … Continued

5 things you need to know about sanitation & drinking water

2015 is the deadline for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and it is also a time to reflect on progress made during the MDG era. The MDGs challenged the global community to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation between 1990 and 2015. The WHO/UNICEF … Continued

Checkpoints, water and the children of Yemen

My job is to ensure that more people have access to water and sanitation in Yemen, one of the most water-scarce countries in the world. After less than a month there, I had to leave Sana’a, along with other international United Nations colleagues, because of the escalation in conflict. It is now the holy month … Continued

Ebola survivors deliver water as Sierra Leone pushes to zero

Quarantining an entire community to stamp out a new case of Ebola requires a complex operation to reduce the strain for residents who suddenly find themselves behind an orange plastic barrier. And in rural Sierra Leone there are additional challenges – in normal times food is often bought on a day-to-day basis from a nearby … Continued

Nigeria: responding to the education needs of displaced children

  Sixteen-year-old Grace fled her home in March this year after witnessing the brutal beheading of her father by the armed group Boko Haram, in Baga, Northeast Nigeria. “When my father was killed, we had to leave our town,” she recalls. “I thought that was the end of the road for me.” But it wasn’t. … Continued

Infographic: Education Crisis in Syria

  Syria was a leader in basic education in the region before the crisis began in 2011: an estimated 97% of primary school-age children were enrolled in school. Today, more than half of school-aged children in Syria are out of school. A recent report by UNICEF and partners highlights how severely the conflict has damaged education, decimating … Continued

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