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“We are the generation that can end polio.”
Fy, a UNICEF Youth Advocate, joins Mendrika and Béatrice – a vaccinator and a community mobilizer – as they set out to protect children from polio in Madagascar.
Watch to learn how they work to reach every child with life-saving vaccines.
#WorldPolioDay
"While the international community has built a strong framework to protect children in war, the reality for children living through conflict is increasingly dangerous."
Read @unicefchief's full remarks to the @UN Security Council below.
Graça Machel's report 30yrs ago exposed a brutal truth that children weren’t just caught in war. They were targeted. The world built strong protections. Yet today, the reality for children in conflict is getting more dangerous. My Security Council remarks.
unicef.org/press-releases/30…
“It’s very hard not having my mother,” says Sahara, 16, who lost her mom in Nepal’s devastating floods two months ago.
Children like her in Nepal are paying for a climate crisis they did little to create.
Watch the video to see how communities are coming together to help each other, with UNICEF’s support.
Stand with the children of Nepal. Donate now: unicef.link/3Up3Tn1
How did this father decide to vaccinate his children?
In Yemen, sensitization efforts and reassuring words from health workers and community mobilizers are encouraging parents like Wagdan to make the right call.
“The community mobilization team helped me realize that vaccinating my children is essential,” he says.
#WorldPolioDay
A polio-free world for every child is possible.
This #WorldPolioDay, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo calls on governments and donors to sustain commitment and funding to end polio and protect children’s right to health.
Learn more: unicef.link/4yyG4HT
UNICEF retweeted
A polio-free world is within our reach.
Together, with sustained leadership and commitment of governments, health workers, partners and parents, we will #EndPolio for every child.
#WorldPolioDay
15-year-old Marium dreams of becoming a doctor. But first, she needs the chance to learn.
In Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Rohingya refugee girls face barriers to education and the risk of child marriage. At the same time, children and families in the host communities also need support to access education and other essential services.
Hear from UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell how UNICEF and partners are supporting children like Marium to stay in school and build a brighter future. #GirlGoals
“Gaza’s children are trying to recover their childhoods, to find some routine and stability in their young lives, which for too many have again been cut short. A ceasefire that does not protect children has failed them.” - @UNICEFmena's Edouard Beigbeder
Full statement: unicef.link/4iajOOi
Nearly one in two girls in Bangladesh is married before 18.
During her visit to Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar, @unicefchief called for greater investment in children, from ending child marriage to protecting education for Rohingya refugee children.
Read more: unicef.link/3UdMD4i
“I know my rights and I will work to reach my goals.”
Here’s how 13-year-old Duretti* (name changed) from Ethiopia stood up against child marriage and returned to school to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. #GirlGoals
unicef.link/3SuAnfb
Amid the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo, the role of UNICEF-supported community health workers like Thomas can be life-saving.
Hear from him and UNICEF’s @LelmiU how timely and accurate information about the disease and its prevention measures is helping keep children and their families safe.
Across Sudan, children continue to face deadly violence after more than three years of conflict.
UNICEF calls on all parties to the conflict to comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law and protect civilians and civilian infrastructure. Children must be protected wherever they are, at all times.
Details: unicef.link/4yulKaA
ALT At least 12 children, some as young as two, were reportedly killed in two separate incidents in Sudan's West Kordofan and Khartoum states in recent days.
"In Taiz, Yemen, escalating fighting and fuel shortages are threatening UNICEF water systems serving an estimated three million people, at least 1.6 million of them children."
Full remarks from @UNICEF_Yemen's Akhil Iyer below. unicef.org/press-releases/wa…
Every mother, like Farzana, deserves quality care from pregnancy to delivery and beyond.
Child marriage can take away choices that should belong to girls.
It can force them out of school, increase the risk of early pregnancy and limit their opportunities.
Every girl has the right to learn, make decisions and have her voice heard in her community.
#EndChildMarriage. Invest in girls’ rights. Now. #GirlGoals
ALT Each year, more than 12 million girls are married before the age of 18. That’s one girl every three seconds.
ALT Ken, 16, holds her baby at home in Ratanakiri, Cambodia, where nearly half of all girls are married before age 18. UNICEF and partners are helping young mothers like her get the care and protection they need. For many girls, child marriage means growing up too soon, facing early pregnancy and leaving school before they can choose what comes next.
The recent 7.5-magnitude earthquake in Panama has left over 8,000 children in need of humanitarian assistance.
@UNICEFPanama's Gloria Nyam Gyang takes us through the aftermath in Tonosí, one of the hardest-hit districts, and the urgent impact on children’s health, sanitation and hygiene services.
Follow @UNICEFPanama to learn how you can support.
At just two weeks old, Asante’s life turned upside down.
She lost both of her parents amid the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo and contracted the disease herself.
But her story didn’t end there.
Baby Asante survived Ebola and her recovery has been marked by weekly visits to a UNICEF-supported hospital, thanks to her foster mother, Francine.
“Today, seeing her smile makes me feel good,” she says.
A little over one year on since the ceasefire in Gaza was announced, more than 340 children have been reported killed and hundreds of others injured.
Hear more from UNICEF's Ricardo Pires on our new report on the staggering human cost of the war.
UNICEF continues to support hundreds of thousands of children with learning, safe water, health, nutrition and psychosocial support.
Learn more: unicef.link/4hOyZxN
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UNICEF is deeply saddened by the reported deaths of at least 28 children & a teacher when the roof of a private school collapsed in Peshawar. The children were mostly below age 14. More than 50 children were injured.
Read @PernilleUNICEF's statement👇
unicef.org/pakistan/press-re…
