15 December 2021
An executive summary for the research memorandum on artificial intelligence and children’s rights. As Artificial Intelligence-based technologies become increasingly integrated into modern life, the onus […]
18 October 2021
(Guatemala) A majority of hungry residents, children dying: climate disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic have plunged Guatemala into one of the worst situations of food […]
5 October 2021
Over 10 million children are out of school in Nigeria and the global pandemic has only made it harder for young people to stay in […]
22 September 2021
For more than two decades, the Taliban have put children on the front lines of Afghanistan’s armed conflicts. They have used children as fighters, to plant […]
15 September 2021
UNESCO and the International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030 are collecting information on teacher prioritization within national COVID-19 vaccine deployment, including data from the UNESCO/UNICEF/World Bank […]
3 September 2021
The inter-agency team releases annually estimate for child stunting, overweight, underweight, wasting and severe wasting. These new estimates supersede former analyses results published by the […]
1 September 2021
Children are coming under attack in conflicts across the world. We can’t accept this as a ‘new normal.’ Around the world, attacks on children continue […]
26 August 2021
Change is possible. UNICEF calls for action to protect children in war. We have a choice. It is not inevitable that children are direct targets […]
10 August 2021
“UNICEF is outraged by a report that a 12-year-old boy from Shirin Tagab district, Kohsayyad village, in the northern province of Faryab, was brutally flogged […]
10 August 2021
The Convention on the Rights of the Child codifies children’s rights and forms the basis for much of the national legislation relating to children around […]
7 July 2021
Joint Statement by the League of Arab States and the UN SRSGs for Children and Armed Conflict and on Violence against Children* New York/Cairo, 7 […]
10 June 2021
The Report was tabled in Parliament on April 16, 2021 in accordance with the requirements set out in the Official Development Assistance Accountability Act. This […]
19 May 2021
New York, 18 May 2021 – Millions of children in Syria remain trapped in a high-intensity protracted conflict and continue to endure a shocking level […]
3 May 2021
New York, 30 April 2021 – Increasing insecurity in recent months in north-east Nigeria and other Lake Chad Basin border areas poses additional protection challenges for children […]
7 April 2021
March 29 2021 – The pandemic has made it more difficult for justice-involved youth to receive fair treatment in the justice system, according to a […]
6 April 2021
New York, 1 April 2021 – The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, and the UN Special Representative of […]
31 March 2021
31 March 2021 – The three United Nations (UN) High-Level Officials express serious concerns about the rapid degradation in the humanitarian situation in the northern […]
11 March 2021
11 March 2021 – Between April and November 2020, 245 case studies from 86 countries3 were reviewed,4 and in-depth dialogues were taken forward with 36 […]
2 March 2021
1 March 2021 – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (SRSG CAAC), Virginia Gamba, called for the immediate release of some […]
23 February 2021
November 2020 – The IASC Youth Guidelines aim to mobilize commitment and action with and for young people in humanitarian and protracted contexts. It also […]
23 February 2021
December 2020 – FINTRAC-2020-OA001 The purpose of this Operational Alert is to support reporting entities in recognizing financial transactions suspected of being related to the […]
11 February 2021
11 February 2021 – Despite global commitments and efforts, children around the world continue to suffer from the consequences of conflicts and are still being […]
1 February 2021
23 décembre 2020 – In her report, which covers the period from December 2019 to December 2020, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children […]
22 January 2021
11 November 2020 –The news that the numbers of babies in England that have suffered serious injury or neglect during the pandemic has increased by a […]
20 January 2021
Jan 12, 2021 – UNICEF GBViE Podcast Episode 19 In the last 20 years, successive SEA scandals have made media headlines: revelations that peacekeepers in Bosnia […]
20 January 2021
December 2, 2020 – UNICEF works in more than 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their […]
17 December 2020
New York, 10 December 2020 – Children in Mali suffered a sharp increase in grave violations, particularly linked to the worsening security situation throughout the country. This […]
4 December 2020
COVID-19 has brought about a complex array of factors (uncertainty, social isolation, and parental angst) that have an impact on the mental health of children and adolescents. […]
26 November 2020
“You just have to dance, we can make a little money like that.” That’s what Shandel, then 13, said her boyfriend told her at a […]
16 November 2020
The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has cut off supports for children with autism and their caregivers, leaving them feeling abandoned by the British Columbia […]