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 →←
Topic: Big picture
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 →←
Winners: Gerardo Saavedra and Emiliano Salmon Cannes Lions are the most established and coveted awards for the creative and marketing communications industry. The Young Lions Health Award was presented in partnership with UNICEF and UN Women to a team with the most innovative solution to a critical real-world issue affecting children… Read more →←
Gaps frustrate Omar Osman. As class president of Central Washington University, he sees the space fellow students put between their experience and his own, because he is a refugee. When he ran for school office, closing that distance was a crucial piece of his platform, and it is a message Osman has championed since his time in Kenya’s… Read more →←
At UNICEF, we know that the early moments of life offer an unparalleled opportunity to build the brains of the children who will build the future. In fact, there is no better time to invest in the development of the next generation than in the earliest years. But for parents to give their children the early stimulation, good nutrition,… Read more →←
