With over 1.6 billion children worldwide having had their education severely disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year, Johns Hopkins University, the World Bank, and UNICEF have created a COVID-19 – Global Education...Read more
UNICEF has unveiled a ‘Pandemic Classroom’ at the HQ of the United Nations in New York to urge governments worldwide to prioritise the reopening of schools
Schools which are normally the second home for 168 million...Read more
Children’s charity UNICEF and pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca have signed a long-term agreement for the supply of COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca on behalf of the COVAX Facility. Read more
Vantaa has been selected by Finland’s UNICEF committee to participate in its Child Friendly Cities Model, and will be supported to make the city’s infrastructure designed with children as a priority.Read more
Renewing global confidence in vaccines, addressing challenges to youth mental health and wellbeing, fighting discrimination, tackling climate change, and bridging the digital divide are the biggest opportunities for children that the COVID-19 pandemic has presented...Read more
Participation in decision-making processes, quality education, internet access and climate change make up the chief concerns for children and young people throughout Africa and Europe.Read more
The European Union, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, have launched a new EU-wide programme strengthen child protection systems and provide alternatives to immigration detention.Read more
The world’s most vulnerable children will bear the brunt of another year of school disruption – putting not only their education but also their health & well-being at risk.Read more
Vaccinating teachers is a ‘critical step’ towards putting children’s education across the globe ‘back on track’, says Henrietta Fore, executive director of UNICEF, the international children’s charity.Read more
International children’s charity UNICEF is demanding urgent global investment to bridge a digital divide stopping children and young people from accessing essential digital learning and opportunities online.
A report by UNICEF reveals that two thirds of...Read more
Children and young people from around the world are joining some of UNICEF’s most recognisable Goodwill Ambassadors – David Beckham and Orlando Bloom for starters – in virtual conversations in celebration of World Children’s Day.
In...Read more
Severe pneumonia leaves an estimated 4.2 million children under the age of five in 124 low- and middle-income countries with critically low oxygen levels each year, new analysis shows.Read more
The government of the West Indian island of Trinidad and Tobago is asking children to apply to become Child Rights Ambassadors (CRA) to help shape policies affecting their lives.Read more
Schoolchildren in low-and lower-middle-income countries have already lost nearly four months of education since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to six weeks of loss in high-income countries, according to a new report. Read more
An estimated 1 in 6 children – or 356 million globally – lived in extreme poverty before the pandemic, and this is set to worsen significantly, according to a new report.Read more
