“I have lost a child; he was six months old. I know the grief of a mother who loses her child. My husband had HIV/AIDS but he never told me about it. I would never have thought that a child born with HIV could die before his first birthday.” With a warm handshake, Oremta comes to greet us. She is in a hurry. I follow her through a… Read more →←
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In 2015, the migrant and refugee crisis shook the world. Public discourse on the topic has remained charged ever since. Refugee host countries seem divided. Discussions remain emotional and binary – two camps, two stances on the issue: #RefugeesWelcome or #RefugeesGoHome. There is little room for constructive debate – everyone talks,… Read more →←
Atheer leans back in his chair to gather his thoughts. We’re sitting in the anonymity of a crowded lunch room on the UN compound in Erbil — as UNICEF Iraq’s Emergency Coordinator for the Mosul crisis, Atheer makes every minute of his day count. He is a man with a lot on his mind. Military operations to retake Mosul and the… Read more →←
Going to the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak is not easy – you need to mentally prepare. In fact, when I informed my colleagues in Kinshasa that I was going to the epicenter of the outbreak, I could see the apprehension on their faces. Fortunately, we have a clear office protocol in place, and we make sure that staff who go to an active… Read more →←
In Mariupol, a city near the line of conflict in eastern Ukraine, some districts are especially close to the fighting. The Left Bank district, where I work as a psychologist in a Youth Centre, is one of these districts. The purpose of my work is to provide psychosocial support for young people. Young people who attend our Centre know… Read more →←
“The hardest day was when I first arrived in the camp. When I first started teaching here, we had just two tents for all the children and no supplies.” Life for teachers like Babaganesha in the Lake Chad Basin hasn’t been easy for the last few years. The conflict has had a huge impact on the already fragile education systems of… Read more →←
Every day, thousands of people travel from the hinterlands of Africa and the Middle East, across the Sahara to Libya – the entry point to the Mediterranean Sea. They flee war, violence and poverty. Thousands die along the way or endure exploitation, abuse, violence and detention in the hope of reaching Europe and a better life. Italian… Read more →←
HIV has never stood in the way of 18-year-old Yana Panfilova. In fact, it’s only driven her forward. “It inspired me and encouraged me to do more as an activist,” she says. “If people believe in me then I can do anything.” Yana has spent the last eight years campaigning in her native Ukraine to raise awareness in a country with… Read more →←
For International Youth Day, UNICEF has released the results of a new global poll of more than 100,000 young people from more than 14 countries that shows two-thirds of young people have been bullied. We asked Yeshna, a 18 year old blogger living Mauritius to write a reflection on the results and share her thoughts on bullying and why it… Read more →←
When my daughter, Pari – my very first child – was born, I was 47 years old, and literally had not a single drop of breastmilk. At the only Baby-Friendly Hospital in Tokyo, my hometown, I tried day and night to breastfeed my little baby, with support from the nurses. No success. As a UNICEF staff member who had been promoting… Read more →←
