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A woman and her child in Khokhana town on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, after the earthquake destroyed their home.
UN Women Australia/Vlad Sokhin

Ban kicks off meeting to boost commitment to ‘Every Woman, Every Child’ initiative

14 May 2015
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has gathered senior leaders from around the world for a meeting that began today in New York on ways to step-up commitments to improve the health of women, children and adolescents globally under a United Nations initiative.
A group of boys displaced by violence in South Sudan, playing in a UNICEF-supported child friendly space.
UNICEF/Brian Sokol

UN-backed report urges greater violence-prevention efforts for Africa’s children

11 February 2015
African girls and boys continue to be subjected to distressing levels of physical, sexual and emotional violence despite the significant legal and policy measures adopted throughout the region, according to a new United Nations-backed report.
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham meets child survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
UNICEF/Per-Anders Pettersson

UNICEF, David Beckham launch new initiative to boost funding for world’s children

9 February 2015
International football icon and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador, David Beckham, today announced his latest fundraising initiative, launched in tandem with the UN agency and aimed at boosting assistance for the world’s youth, amid the planet’s worsening humanitarian crises.
A student at the Hamar Jajab School in Mogadishu holds a peace-themed comic book for children produced by UNSOM during the commemoration of Somalia’s ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on 20 January 2015.
UN Photo/Ilyas Ahmed

UN lauds Somalia as country ratifies landmark children’s rights treaty

20 January 2015
The United Nations today applauded Somalia’s ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) – a move which was praised as being an “important step” towards protecting and promoting the rights of all children in the war-torn nation and an explicit commitment towards improving the lives of its youngest citizens.
Photo: World Bank/Natalia Cieslik
World Bank/Natalia Cieslik

UN champions children as ‘fundamental building blocks,’ marking 25th anniversary of historic treaty

20 November 2014
As countries around the world celebrate the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations family today hailed the landmark treaty as a powerful human rights tool, while taking stock of the long-standing disparities that must be addressed to propel actions for the well-being of all children into the future.
A child with his mother.
UNICEF/Naser Siddique

UN spotlights children’s rights as world gears up to mark 25th anniversary of landmark treaty

19 November 2014
As the global human rights community readies to celebrate tomorrow the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations committee charged monitoring with its implementation highlighted the right of children to actively participate – and not just be heard – in discussions that affect their lives and communities.
Daniela Cojocaru (left) and Chiara Dimastromatteo, both 16, stand next to a graffiti-covered wall in Turin, Italy. Daniela is originally from Moldova. Chiara does not attend school and does not have a job.
UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi

Recession-hit rich countries suffer ‘great leap backwards’ in child poverty – UN

28 October 2014
Some 2.6 million children have sunk below the poverty line in the world’s most affluent countries since 2008, negatively impacted by the wave of recessions that rippled through their economies following the meltdown of blue chip financial intuitions, according to a new United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report out today.
Photo: UNICEF/AFGA2010-00325/Noorani
UNICEF/AFGA2010-00325/Noorani

UN experts urge real dialogue with children about their rights, decisions that affect them

23 September 2014
A group of United Nations independents experts today called on governments to make renewed efforts to ensure that children’s views are heard and taken into account.
Women and their babies outside the maternity ward of Kissidougou Hospital in the south-eastern Forestière Region of Guinea.
UNICEF/Olivier Asselin

UN reports one million children die on first day of life from mostly preventable causes

16 September 2014
While child survival rates have increased dramatically since 1990, one million babies each year do not see their second day of life, many succumbing to complications during labour and delivery that could be easily prevented with simple, cost effective interventions, according to a report released today by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
UNICEF says children rights in south Asia have made strides but inequalities exist.
UNICEF

UNICEF: progress for children rights in south Asia, but inequalities exist

11 September 2014
Despite rapid economic growth and huge progress in realizing the rights of children, young people in South Asia are paying a heavy price, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported today, noting that “everybody in South Asia has an obligation – and the potential – to do more to realize the rights of every single child in the region.”