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Introducing UNICEF Congressional Action Teams

Want to make a real difference for the world’s children? Join a UNICEF Congressional Action Team.

In 1988, tetanus killed some 160,000 young children in India. Eliminating Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus reduces annual deaths to less than 1 per 1000 live births.

India Celebrates a Lifesaving Victory in its War Against Tetanus

India's gain brings the world one giant step closer to global elimination of MNT.

A woman carriers her grandson at a shelter for people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina 10 Years Later

Sagga, 12 years old, and other inmates at a detention camp for migrants in Zawya, Libya.

30 Million Children on the Run: Portraits from Libya

This World Refugee Day, there are more refugee children, displaced children, children driven from their homes by conflict, than at any time since World War II. Today, 30 million children are on the...

September 2013: A UNICEF-supported vaccination team in Somalia goes house-to-house during an emergency polio immunization campaign.

World Humanitarian Day 2015

Honoring all those who risk their lives to make a better world for children.

Many vaccinators are veterans of the war against disease. But in South Sudan, where civil war left many scars on the newly independent nation after its independence, young people like 14-year-old vaccinator Nyaluak Tebuom step up to do their part. Nyaluak

The Long and Winding Road: In the world’s far corners getting vaccines

The itinerary is ambitious: It begins with a flight from POLIO MANUFACTURER LOCATIONTK to Islamabad, followed by a road trip by jeep for hundreds more miles. Then when the road runs out, it’s on foot...

UNICEF USA at the Girl Scouts Senior Leadership Conference

Bringing a global perspective to a local movement.

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons Twitter Party

Join us for a Twitter party on July 30th to raise awareness about human trafficking!

Polio survivors like Amina Abdullhidiso who help convince families to vaccinate their children have helped raise Nigeria's immunization rates. © UNICEF/NYHQ2015-0681/Rich

Nigeria Reaches Important Milestone in Fight to End Polio

The deadly and debilitating disease, once endemic in Nigeria, is one step closer to being eradicated.