End Violence Against Children: David Beckham
A new film featuring UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham was released Monday to illustrate the brutal reality that physical and psychological abuse can mark children forever. During the new 60-second UNICEF film, scenes of violence against children appear as animated…
Universal Children’s Day: Protect the Rights of Every Child
“Universal Children’s Day is more than a day to celebrate children everywhere. It is an annual opportunity to recommit ourselves to protecting the rights of every child,” said UNICEF executive director Anthony Lake today. United Nations Universal Children’s Day was…
Top Writers Write Short Stories for Children’s Rights
Over 200 prominent writers including novelists, playwrights and poets, have joined a global literary campaign this week, penning ‘tiny stories’ of around seven lines each to highlight Universal Children’s Day and the injustice so many of the world’s poorest and…
Children in Syria Risk Their Lives to Go to School
With the start of the school year in Syria, over 1.7 million children remain out of school and another 1.3 million are at a risk of dropping out, according to new education data. Escalating violence, displacement, increased poverty, and an…
UNICEF Deplores Attack on Primary School in Syria
UNICEF has deplored Tuesday’s attack on the “That al-Netaqeen” primary school in the city of Daraa which killed five school children, aged between four and 16, and left 15 other children injured. “The conflict in Syria has plummeted to such…
Study Says 385 Million Children Living in Extreme Poverty
Children are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty, according to a new analysis released Monday by the World Bank Group and UNICEF. Ending Extreme Poverty: A Focus on Children finds that in 2013 19.5…
UNICEF Launches Back-to-School Campaign in Iraq
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched its back-to-school campaign to help millions missing out on education several weeks before the start of the new school year. UNICEF, together with the Iraqi Ministry of Education, launched a nationwide ‘Back to…
Report Warns of Global Crisis in Learning and Education
More than two-thirds of schoolchildren in low-income countries will not learn basic primary level skills in 2030 despite an ambitious goal to get every child in school and learning, according to a report launched Sunday by the International Commission on…
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