Student council boosts Romanian city’s bid for Child-Friendly status
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
‘Urgent action’ needed to increase children’s access to HIV prevention and treatments
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
Pandemic caused ‘major backsliding’ on childhood vaccinations in 2020
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
Help children in ‘fragile cities’ who are most at risk from climate change
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
Urban green spaces are ‘vital’ to children’s development – UNICEF
Green spaces can provide enormous benefits to children and should be easily accessible to all youngsters living in cities, says UNICEF.Read more
UN charities: ‘Reopening schools cannot wait any longer’
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
Global project to help youngsters support each another during emergencies
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
Devastating impact of COVID on children’s lives ‘far worse than first thought’
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
UNICEF must ‘look to future with optimism and hope’
After a year for everyone like no other, children’s charity UNICEF must ‘look to the future with optimism and hope’ for what it can achieve together with its partners across the world.Read more
Vileika is latest city to join global Child-Friendly City scheme
Vileika in Belarus is the latest city to become part of UNICEF’s global Child-Friendly City initiative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).Read more
USA and UNICEF renew partnership for improving child health
The renewal of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) longstanding partnership with UNICEF will help improve the health and well-being of mothers, children, families, and communities around the world. The five-year award, worth up...Read moreTime for school: UNICEF & the European Union ring the bell
With 897 million school children around the world affected by disruptions to their education, senior officials from UNICEF and the European Union reiterated their support to ensure the right to education for all.Read more
UNICEF: Combatting the wider costs of exclusion for children with disabilities
The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) makes clear the right of all children to be ‘full members of society’, and be included...Read moreGlobal ‘tracker’ launched to measure COVID’s impact on education worldwide
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