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Education for Justice Helps Children Learn Rule of Law

Education for Justice Helps Children Learn Rule of Law

Education has a fundamental role in building a culture of respect for the law and to prevent crime and violence.  Through the Education for Justice (E4J) initiative, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has developed educational tools and resources for educators worldwide to support strengthening the rule…
Children Are Dying Before Our Eyes in Syria: UNICEF Chief

Children Are Dying Before Our Eyes in Syria: UNICEF Chief

The Executive Director of UNICEF Henrietta H. Fore has expressed her deep concern over the continuing violence in Syria. Reports suggest that another deadly chemical attack may have been carried out in Syria on Saturday in the town of Douma. “I am particularly horrified by allegations of a chemical attack…
One in Every Four Children Robbed of Their Childhoods: Report

One in Every Four Children Robbed of Their Childhoods: Report

One quarter of the world's children are being denied the opportunity to have the childhoods they deserve and grow to their full potential, a new report from Save the Children has revealed. Launched to coincide with International Children's Day, June 1, "Stolen Childhoods" has found that at least 700 million…
New EU Policy to Protect Migrant and Refugee Children

New EU Policy to Protect Migrant and Refugee Children

UNICEF and UNHCR welcomed Wednesday a new policy guidance from the European Commission as an important milestone for the protection of migrant and refugee children. “It is the first EU policy to address the situation and rights of all children in migration – refugee and migrant children, children alone and…
Montblanc and UNICEF to Help Children Get Education

Montblanc and UNICEF to Help Children Get Education

Montblanc and UNICEF announced Monday the continuation of their partnership to help some of the world’s most vulnerable children access education. The partnership, formed in 2004 through a shared vision of empowering children through education, has to-date raised more than US$10 million for UNICEF’s work for children. In this next…
Polio Immunization Campaign Reaches 5 Million Children in Yemen

Polio Immunization Campaign Reaches 5 Million Children in Yemen

Amid escalating violence, UNICEF and partners have completed the first round of a nationwide door-to-door vaccination campaign reaching 5 million children under the age of five with oral polio vaccine and vitamin A supplementation. In the first campaign of its kind this year, 40,000 vaccinators spread across Yemen to provide…
Actor Orlando Bloom Meets Displaced Children in Niger

Actor Orlando Bloom Meets Displaced Children in Niger

English actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom this week travelled to Diffa, south-east Niger, to highlight the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Lake Chad Basin where Boko Haram violence has caused huge population displacements. Hundreds of thousands of children across the region have been forced from their homes, are…