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Gema Jimenez: Fierce Protector of Migrant Children — and Their Rights

UNICEF Mexico’s Gema Jimenez helps Central American migrant children build resilience on their difficult journeys toward a brighter future.

Adolescent girls in Jharkhand, India, participate in a body-mapping activity, part of a UNICEF-supported program to improve menstrual health and hygiene and help girls stay in school.

UNICEF and Duke University to Team Up on Menstrual Hygiene

A new partnership aims to accelerate innovative, sustainable solutions to one of the biggest issues for adolescent girls.

Caseworker Simon Char is checking up on 11-year-old Diech Gwang in the Protecion of the Civilian (PoC) site in Malakal, South Sudan. He has been separated from his family for four years and Simon is trying to find out if his parents are alive.

Reuniting Families Split by War Is All in a Day's Work for Simon Char

Thousands of children have gone missing since civil war broke out in South Sudan five years ago. Separated from their families in the chaos of war, these children are desperate to be reunited with their parents.

On May 5, 2019 in Atmeh, close to the Turkish border with Syria, trucks carrying families fleeing escalating violence in Idlib.

Giving Monthly Sustains UNICEF's Work in Syria's Ongoing Crisis

Steadfast support from monthly donors enables UNICEF to be there for children in need, whether they're on the front page or not.

Rohingya refugee boys play on a muddy ridge in BaluKhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh in September 2018.

UNICEF Delivers Lifesaving Assistance to Rohingya Refugees

UNICEF is working to protect and support ethnic Muslim Rohingya families crowded into refugee camps in Bangladesh.

So That No Child Suffers Because of Who They Are or Who They Love

On International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia, a renewed commitment to equal rights and protections for all children.

On May 5, 2019, families fleeing escalating violence in Idlib, Syria take shelter in an olive grove near the Turkish border.

UNICEF Is Helping Syrians Survive Amidst Violence

Millions of Syrians spent another Ramadan praying for the day they can go home again. UNICEF is on the ground helping.

A boy receives a measles and rubella vaccine during a UNICEF-backed mobile vaccination campaign in Aden, Yemen in February 2019.

UNICEF Is On the Ground in Yemen, Helping Children Survive

Millions in Yemen spent yet another Ramadan praying for peace and struggling for survival. UNICEF is on the ground helping.

Why Children Are Fleeing Honduras, and What UNICEF Is Doing About It

In Honduras, seven out of ten children live in a home classified by UNICEF as below the poverty line. Forty-three percent of children do not live with their parents, because their parents have departed for other nations in search of work.