Vanuatu, 2015: Tropical Cyclone Pam, which hit on 13 March, has disrupted access to safe water and sanitation in the South Pacific island nation, increasing children’s risk of water- and vector-borne diseases. The ‘10,000 in 10’ campaign, launched on 18 March, aims to immunize 10,000 children 6 to 59 months of age against measles… Read more →←
Author: Christine Nesbitt
A boy holds onto a ledge outside his home amid extensive floods caused by heavy rains linked to La Niña climate effects, in Santa Cruz Department in this photograph taken by Shehzad Noorani in Bolivia in 2008. Climate change and environmental degradation undermine the rights of children and can affect their ability to live in safety,… Read more →←
While deaths from AIDS are falling among most age groups, progress is lagging behind for adolescents aged 10–19, for whom AIDS has become the second-leading cause of death globally. The All In campaign aims to end the AIDS epidemic among adolescents, including by reaching them with HIV services that meet their unique needs and by… Read more →←
Each year, some 3 million girls are subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM). Despite being illegal in many countries, the practice continues due to cultural pressures and, at times, is even performed by trained health providers. But, FGM poses life-threatening dangers to girls’ health and leaves emotional wounds that often last a… Read more →←
Five years ago, just weeks after the 12 January earthquake destroyed her home, in a 2010 photo taken by Shehzad Noorani, this baby girl lay in a basin while her mother, a single parent with two other children, washed laundry nearby, in Cité Soleil, one of Port-au-Prince’s poorest neighbourhoods. The earthquake – the single largest… Read more →←
In Bangladesh a UNICEF-supported national nutrition security programme funded by the European Union (EU) aims to permanently reduce the rates of under-five child and maternal under-nutrition in the country. Seen from left to right in this photograph taken by Shehzad Noorani in 2014, sisters Samira, 14, and Sabonni, 3, in Sharisha Bari… Read more →←
Anya, 8, sits for a portrait taken by photographer Andrey Krepkih in Ukraine in 2014. Due to the ongoing conflict, Anya, fled her hometown of Bryanka in July and now lives in an accommodation centre in Kyiv. Her mother and younger brother and sister, who were unable to get out, remained behind. “I was very scared. They were shooting… Read more →←
A polio team, accompanied by an armed escort, vaccinates children in a nomad community during a national polio immunization campaign in Pakistan in 2013 in this week’s Photo of the Week taken by Asad Zaidi . The world is closer than ever to eradicating polio. Just three endemic countries (including Pakistan) remain. Acceptance of the… Read more →←
This week’s Photo of the Week by Tanya Bindra is of three-week-old Francine Melissa as she sleeps at the displacement site where she and her 14-year-old mother now shelter, in the conflict-affected town of Bambari in Ouaka Province in Central African Republic. The infant was born as a result of her mother’s rape by a rebel soldier… Read more →←
In this week’s photograph by Mike Pflanz taken in South Sudan in August 2014, Nyabel Wal holds a bowl filled with small-leaved succulent plants known in the local Nuer language as ‘wool’, which grow wild close to the ground all around the town of Kiech Kon, where she lives in Upper Nile State. Ms. Wal recently travelled for six… Read more →←
