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Step Up and Be Counted in the 2020 U.S. Census

Children under age 5 are routinely overlooked in the U.S. census. In 2020, let's make sure we're all accounted for.

Coronavirus in the U.S.: How to Prepare

Health experts are warning the disease will spread. Here are some simple steps you can take to protect your family.

Making an Impact, All Through a Giving Machine

Latter-day Saint Charities and UNICEF USA are Lighting the World for children

A UNICEF-supported health worker disinfects a house for cholera in the Camp Luka neighborhood of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, January 18, 2018.

What You Need to Know About the World's Deadliest Cholera Outbreak

Cholera is on the rise in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Here's how you can help UNICEF protect the lives of children at risk.

A child plays in a muddy road in the Kinama neighborhood of Bujumbura, Burundi after torrential rains flooded the region.

Severe Flooding Threatens Lives and Futures in Burundi

The torrential rains began in December, triggering landslides and massive flooding across northern Burundi, one of the world's poorest countries.

Sergey, 15 lives in the streets of Odesa, a city by the Black Sea, Southern Ukraine.

UNICEF USA Statement on U.S. Decision Use of Anti-Personnel Landmines

UNICEF USA Statement on U.S. Decision to Allow Use of Anti-Personnel Landmines

Children ride on the back of a truck heading out of south rural Idlib, northwest Syria, where escalating hostilities have forced some 875,000 Syrians to flee since December 2019.

Desperate Times for Children and Families in Syria

Escalating violence in northwest Syria amid harsh winter conditions has compounded an already dire humanitarian crisis in the country.

On 12 February 2020, children peer out from a tent at a recently established informal settlement which continues to receive newly displaced families from southern Idlib and rural Aleppo governorates in northwest Syrian Arab Republic.

UNICEF Winter Clothes Help Syrian Children Weather the Cold

The war in Syria forced Reem and her family to flee their home seven years ago. Like so many other people who have been displaced by the conflict, they have found winter a recurring threat to their survival.

More and more kids are demanding action on climate change.

Report: Time for a Radical Rethink on Child Health

The case for kid-centric solutions to the effects of climate change and other threats to children's health and development.