I thought only men could learn robotics – now I am able to construct a robot! These were the inspiring words of one teenage Lebanese girl after she attended a training for girls interested in careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). She is just one of more than 600 million adolescent girls worldwide preparing… Read more →←
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He belongs to the family of Imam Hussain who lost his leg, his wife Halima Khatum and their five children, who live in Kutapalong Rohingya refugee camp in south-eastern Bangladesh. Pets in the vast camps are a rarity – hardly any of about one million Rohingyas have them — which makes Whocef all the more loved. About 750,000… Read more →←
On 12 September, 2018, UNICEF hosted the TomorrowReady event — a discussion about how tech and innovation are going to shape the future for children and young people. I went behind-the-scenes to get some advice from the panelists: Nicholas Thompson, Editor-in-Chief of WIRED; Stephanie Sy, CEO and Lead Data-Scientist of Thinking… Read more →←
There’s no question that young people are the future. In fact, that’s the impetus behind Generation Unlimited, a UNICEF and partner initiative to help develop opportunities for young people as they head into their second decade of life. We reflect on the challenges that those under 30 face and ask ourselves what can a global… Read more →←
The work of UNICEF and its partners helps children thrive in some of the most challenging situations around the world. As they transition into adolescence, however, it can be difficult to determine where care ends and independence begins. Given the growing population of adolescents globally, and given their needs, it is becoming critical… Read more →←
UNICEF’s “Young People’s Agenda” reinforces strategies to ensure that every young person is in school, training or work before 2030. Discussions between young people are essential to making this strategy work, because they best understand the problems and aspirations of their generation. Malagasy youth have taken the lead… Read more →←
Promoting the rights of young people uprooted In June, UNICEF Germany’s youth delegates Yasmin, Sandra and Alexandra travelled to Morocco to participate in a youth workshop organised by the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD). The workshop aimed at unpacking priority issues for young people uprooted. Why? Because UN… Read more →←
Having HIV in the 1990s meant automatic exclusion from your social circle, discrimination and a lot of stigma. It was even more difficult in developing countries, where HIV was, in the minds of many, a death sentence – because despite being a step away from entering the millennium, ignorance flooded Latin American countries. When our… Read more →←
I was born prematurely at seven months. The doctors told my mother that I probably wasn’t going to survive, so she left me in the hospital. At some point during my stay in the hospital I was given a blood transfusion. That was how I got HIV. When I was 14 days old my grandmother discovered I’d been born and came to get me. She has… Read more →←
My name is Yana Panfilova. I am from Ukraine, and I was born with HIV, on 20 October 1997. Now I am a founder of Teenergizer, an organization for teenagers (including those who are HIV-positive), but during my childhood, I thought I would die. Neither my friends nor civil society in Ukraine knew much about HIV at the time. For the… Read more →←
