March 15th 2014 marks the third year of the Syrian conflict. The streets of Syria have been battlefields for three long years. Cities flattened. Schools crumbled. Millions of lives ripped apart. Relentless bloodshed has turned a middle-income country into the most dangerous place for children in the world. This week, people from across… Read more →←
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The storm came with such speed and ferocity that no one was prepared, twenty year-old Thot told me the following morning, as families around us struggled to find places out of the water and mud to dry their mattresses and clothing, “I was sitting with my five brothers and sisters in the tent, playing a game, and then . . . boom, the… Read more →←
“Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.” — Archbishop Desmond Tutu Marking the International Women’s Day, our friends at UN Women launched the ‘HeForShe’ campaign this week. Men all over the world are being encouraged to speak out against the inequalities… Read more →←
I had not imagined, when I joined UNICEF as a child protection officer, that burying the bodies of children would be something I would do. Sadly, in Malakal last week, I did help to bury the dead after devastating violence shook the town, penetrating even into the UNMISS compound where civilians had taken shelter. Masumi… Read more →←
His haunting and compelling images capture stories that aren’t told often enough – stories of children who are living through one of the most brutal wars in recent history. Swedish photographer Niclas Hammarström traveled to Syria three times since October 2012 to cover the everyday life of hundreds of thousands of families who… Read more →←
During the night of February 9, I was woken by the sound of a powerful downpour. Burundi was being hit by torrential rains. Little did I know at the time just what the consequences of this severe weather would be: a death toll of 77, a tragic 70% of which were children. More than 3,700 houses were destroyed that night, forcing hundreds… Read more →←
I’ve supported UNICEF emergency responses in Papua New Guinea, Kyrgyzstan, Albania, Philippines and China. The pace of UNICEF work is regularly punctuated by that unexpected call in the middle of the night with first news of an earthquake, typhoon or refugee exodus. For the next several weeks or months life is turned up-side down. I… Read more →←
We are always on the lookout for interesting content that often gets overlooked. We search the web for stories from under-reported regions and articles that will make you think of children’s rights and development issues in a way you haven’t before. Here are our top picks for this week – It doesn’t make headlines, but every… Read more →←
It is heartbreaking to see the devastation wrought on the people of South Sudan since the sudden outbreak of fighting there two months ago. More than 850,000 South Sudanese have been forced to flee their homes; family members have been killed and injured, homes and livelihoods lost. More than 150,000 have left the country altogether.… Read more →←
I know I wonder about the effects on my grandchildren of violent video games. Imagine the effects on the children of Syria – or the Central African Republic – or South Sudan – when the horrors and violence they see are not virtual, but real. Surrounded by such violence, Syrian children – millions of whom are without education or… Read more →←