United Nations agencies are behind an international coalition aimed at rapidly improving the nutrition, health and education of school-age children around the world following pandemic-driven school closures.Read more
Nine cities and municipalities in Belgium’s Flanders region can now officially call themselves ‘child-friendly’.
Benjamin Dalle, the Flemish Minister of Youth, visited towns in the successful provinces of Limburg and Antwerp, which are in the Dutch-speaking...Read more
Three more of Beirut’s public parks have been revitalised and made child-friendly as part of an ongoing programme led by the non-profit CatalyticAction.
After the successful rehabilitation of the Karantina public park, CatalyticAction, which works for...Read more
‘Bold and effective commitment to children’s rights are more important than ever before in the EU, and with the EU for the world’, says UNICEF’s deputy executive director, Charlotte Petri Gornitza.Read more
The effects of the global pandemic on the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents may take years to be fully appreciated, says children’s charity UNICEF in a major new report.Read more
Children under the age of two are not getting the food or nutrients they need to thrive and grow well, leading to irreversible developmental harm, says UNICEF.Read more
Children’s charity UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) say measures must be introduced to help keep European and Asian schools open by being better protected from the highly-infectious Delta variant of COVID-19. Read more
With the summer break coming to a close, many children – and their parents – will be looking forward to their first day of school. But the continued effects of the COVID-19 pandemic mean that...Read more
A new student council set up by the Romanian city of Brasov is kick-starting the municipality’s child-friendly status with UNICEF.
The new council aims to ensure that young people can play an active role in the...Read more
The final report from the Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free initiative warns that progress towards ending AIDS among children, adolescents and young women has stalled and none of the targets for 2020 were met.Read more
Around 23 million children did not receive routine vaccinations in 2020, which was 3.7 million more than the previous year, according to official figures by the World Health Organization and UNICEF.Read more
Children living in ‘fragile cities’ are among those most susceptible to the effects of climate change, but we can help them adapt and be part of the solution, according to a new report.Read more
The reopening of schools globally for face-to-face teaching ‘cannot wait any longer’, two of the world’s most high-profile charities have said.Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) is part of a new programme aimed at giving children and teenagers the skills and knowledge needed to support their friends during traumatic events.Read more
The devastating impacts of the COVID pandemic on children’s lives globally has been far worse than first feared, says an influential child rights organisation.Read more
