UNICEF in action

UNICEF's emergency operations center is closely watching a tropical storm in the pacific today, as an estimated 3 million people in the path of Typhoon Megi (locally called Juan) brace for flooding...

To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, Selena is pulling out all the stops! She is encouraging people through media interviews and her social media network to get involved and...

The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely accepted human rights treaty in history. To date, 193 nations have ratified this important treaty. The only two UN member states that have...

Today is International Literacy Day , and while we certainly want to celebrate the fact that there are 4 billion literate people in the world today , we must also concede that for far too many, the...

Hadassah Magazine has published a profile about U.S. Fund for UNICEF President and CEO Caryl Stern . It begins with sharing two family stories that shaped Caryl's outlook on life from an early age and...

UNICEF Ambassadors Alyssa Milano and Clay Aiken ask for your help in supporting UNICEF's efforts in Pakistan. The toll of Pakistan's flooding is mounting. The situation for hundreds of thousands of...

Three weeks after this photo was taken, the humanitarian situation in Pakistan remains dire. This photo of a submerged city in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the northern province which was the first to be hit...

Daniel Toole is the UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia. He spent the last week surveying the humanitarian crisis in flooded Pakistan. Daniel Toole is the UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia...