For UNICEF and the world’s children, the past 12 months have been marked by unprecedented difficulties and extraordinary opportunities. As 2010 draws to a close, it’s worth highlighting some of the moments that made this a year like no other.
VIDEO: Watch highlights of UNICEF’s work in 2010. Produced and edited by John Mims. Watch in [...]
Focus on equity
Addressing the needs of the poorest of the poor is the key to meeting ambitious development goals and reducing global injustice, according to a UNICEF’s latest ‘Progress for Children’ report. The report was released today, during the first day of a UNICEF Executive Board session at United Nations headquarters in New York. Report [...]
Millions of children across the world are victims of exploitation, abuse and child labour. In Bangladesh, children account for about almost half of its population and child labour is a major concern.
Brothers Yusef and Smaile live by themselves on the streets on Dhaka in Bangladesh. They make a living by collecting plastic bottles and filling [...]
© UNICEF Afghanistan/2010/Walther
Field report by Cornelia Walther- On the occasion of International Women’s Day last month, UNICEF, the Bamyan Provincial Department of Women’s Affairs and the local Youth Information and Contact Centre (YICC) joined forces to promote girls’ empowerment through sport – by organizing an all-female football [...]
Mothers hold their children outside a therapeutic feeding centre in Mao, capital of a region in western Chad where some 2 million people are in need of food aid – By Salma Zulfiqar
Adam Abdulai is just over a year old, but he can barely move, let alone stand up and walk. He and a dozen [...]
UNICEF aims to immunize 85 million children against polio in West and Central Africa
NEW YORK, USA, 5 March 2010 – For children in West and Central Africa, the threat of the crippling disease polio, eradicated in much of the world, still looms.
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