Eighteen-year-old Rizka Raisa Fatimah Ramli is the winner of UNICEF’s and Comics Uniting Nations’ End Violence in Schools Superhero Comic Contest. Her winning concept is a 15-year-old superhero named Cipta, who turns drawings into real-life objects that she uses to stop school violence. Rizka’s drawing was selected as a… Read more →←
Indiscernible from afar, the seemingly disconnected homesteads scattered across the vast open landscape of Northern Namibia belie an advanced intelligence network. In this hard landscape, people have taken on roles and responsibilities, centred on Indunas (village chiefs in the Zambezi Region), to help them cope. People share the news… Read more →←
Over the past ten years, two things have played a constant in my life— music, and the issue of child marriage. So, when I got the opportunity to help raise awareness about the practice in Niger it was a no brainer: I had to lend my support. Together with UNICEF Niger and Rooftop Productions, I wanted to create a music video that would… Read more →←
School improvement is the process by which schools become more effective both in terms of academic outcomes as well as in developing the social and cultural wellbeing of the children and adults within the school. It describes conscious efforts to raise school achievements by modifying classroom practices and adapting management… Read more →←
The number of countries with violent conflicts is the highest it has been in the last 30 years. An estimated 535 million children — one in four — live in countries affected by conflict or disaster. As of early 2018, nearly 31 million children including 13 million children refugees had been forcibly displaced by violence and conflict… Read more →←
Every child deserves to grow up in a clean and safe environment. In communities where open defecation is practiced, children are at risk of disease. Newly released data confirms that Cambodia has made exemplary progress towards improving toilet use. Since 2000, Cambodia’s progress towards safer sanitation is among the fastest in the… Read more →←
At a family gathering last weekend, it was interesting to see how the older generation heaped praise on my son-in-law for changing my 9-week-old grandson’s nappy, taking him for a walk in the pram, and soothing him on the rare occasion that he cried. He is really good at it. But so is my daughter. And she received no such praise. As we… Read more →←
The Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has provided US$ 5.9 million support to address the challenges that adolescent girls face in provinces like Hadjer Lamis. With this three-year funding, the Ministry of Education and UNICEF are expecting to help girls access and progress through secondary education by, among other… Read more →←
This week, teachers, parents, policy-makers and academics will gather at the World Anti-Bullying Forum in Dublin. Keynote speaker, Charlotte Petri Gornitzka calls for a recommitment to protect children from all forms of violence and bullying. Last month, the world was shocked by news of a 16-year-old girl who Malaysian police say… Read more →←
Today, over 700 million people struggle to survive on less than $1.90 a day. If you take a broader definition of poverty that goes beyond income, the number almost doubles, with more than 1.3 billion people living in multidimensional poverty globally. The tragic truth is that half of these people are children. Children are twice as… Read more →←
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