UNICEF in action

As 2013 begins, it’s a good time to look back on the year gone by. For UNICEF, 2012 was filled with immense challenges—all of which we met head-on. They included the ongoing conflict in Syria, the...

The world has seen “stunning” gains in child survival and health, according to The New York Times’ Tina Rosenberg in a recent column citing UNICEF’s work. Her article shares heartening results from a...

Marge Francia is a UNICEF Philippines Communication Officer A few weeks before Christmas, Mary*, 13, dreamt that she was having a Christmas party with her friends and family. It was the day the...

In honor of World AIDS Day and the annual “ 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence ,” UNAIDS and Together for Girls joined forces to hold an event called “ Ending the Dual Epidemics of HIV/AIDS...

Mr. Broccoli and his friends are back this year to celebrate IKEA’s annual " Soft Toys for Education " collection. New to the soft toys family this year are forest friends from the VANDRING series...

Legendary sitar player Ravi Shankar, who with friend and fellow musician George Harrison created the remarkable Concert for Bangladesh to support UNICEF relief efforts in that country, passed away...

As we’ve been posting on our FieldNotes blog , the typhoon that hit the Philippines on December 4 was truly devastating. We recently received a situation report from the UNICEF office in the...

It’s December 11—have you finished your holiday shopping? Even if you have, why stop now—especially when there is still more giving and receiving to be done with UNICEF’s cards and gifts collection...

On the morning of December 4, Super Typhoon Bopha slammed into the southeastern coast of Mindanao in the Philippines . With winds of over 108 mph and heavy, intense rainfall, the storm completely...