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Supporting and caring for mothers around the world is something very close to our hearts at UNICEF

New Zealander James Gray shares his experiences from the field

Ten years into the Syria crisis, funding is decreasing but the needs remain high – with children facing a double crisis ...

Addressing the growing lack of available water to meet children’s needs.

A picture, a toy, a blanket. All have something in common — they’re the most precious object in the world for a Syrian r...

10 years on the situation for many children and families remains precarious, with nearly 90 per cent of children in need...

After a decade of conflict, children continue to pay the heaviest price.

The auto-disable (AD) syringes UNICEF will deliver to support COVID-19 vaccination have an additional mission: to help p...

The word unprecedented will always be associated with 2020.

100,000 syringes will arrive in Maldives, with more countries to receive imminent deliveries for rollout of COVAX Facili...

We reached more than 760 million children with life-saving vaccines over the last 20 years, and helped prevent more than...

Jackeline Atwi's niece was missing. As she desperately tried to find her, hope was running low.

Hunger and malnutrition deprive children of essential nutrients, making them susceptible to severe versions of common si...

Nine-month-old Baby Chiengjiuk lives in Bentiu camp for displaced people in South Sudan.

Nyabel Wal travelled for six days to look for food, only to come back empty-handed. With no other options, she’s been fo...

Childhood malnutrition affects more than 229 million kids worldwide. It's a triple threat which includes undernutrition,...

UNICEF Health Worker Paul Maesiala travels on a boat for three hours to reach children in remote Solomon Islands.

Mossa is the only father in the group. He has come today with his four children: “I wanted to give their mother a break ...

Robel talks to UNICEF NZ about growing up with precious little food in Sudan and his journey to New Zealand

Some breakfasts are hot, some are cold. Here’s what breakfast looks like for children in 10 countries around the world.

From not being able to stand by herself, to walking again on her own - this is Adut's 8 week journey to recovery.

Are we on track?

Vivien Maidaborn is used to fielding unusual questions. But this was a question even she hadn’t heard before.

Here's what we're doing to help children in Beirut.

On the day Khalid held his oldest daughter for the first time, there was an explosion close to the hospital where she wa...

UNICEF concerned children among the casualties after massive explosion in Beirut.

An interview with nutrition expert at UNICEF South Asia

Only half of Yemen's health centres are functional. We went inside one of the main hospitals in Sana'a.

Māori soul singer TEEKS features on new version of One Love launched by members of the Marley family.

Aussie aid worker Harriet Dwyer wants to remind people that Yemeni children can truly flourish with the right support.

An innovative partnership to help children in greatest need

Reflections six months after the measles outbreak that killed 83 people.

"We can make a huge difference to people's lives by giving them access clean water and soap."

COVID-19 is bringing a new threat to already battered countries – and makes delivering life-saving assistance even harde...

Enough money to immunise 300 million children.

Covid-19 has impacted access to vaccines, education, and exacerbated issues around food shortages.

The simple act of hand washing is the best protection we have against Covid-19.

After more than five years of conflict, families in Yemen now face the threat of a deadly pandemic without even the most...

As Covid-19 spreads around the world, communities in the Pacific are desperately preparing to respond to the imminent th...

Photographers in countries around the world are at home with their families – these are their photos.

For more than 70 years, we have been working to improve the lives of children and their families.

As Covid-19 spreads around the world, water and soap are more important than ever before. But what if you didn’t have ac...

NZ govt pledges $5 million to protect Indonesia against Covid-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic is fast becoming a lasting crisis for children.

With 116 million expected births in the approximately 9 months since the Covid pandemic was recognised, UNICEF calls on ...

As COVID-19 continues to turn our lives upside down, Mother’s Day will look a little different.

Find out more about the most commonly recommended vaccines.

Going the distance to reach every child, no matter where they live.

Vaccines can prevent disease outbreaks now and in the future.

As COVID-19 has continued to spread globally, more than 117 million children in 37 countries may miss out on receiving t...

Find out how vaccines keep your child and community safe.

The Covid-19 pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on global supply chains. UNICEF is developing innovative solutio...

Not only must the region protect its people from the deadly coronavirus pandemic, it has to also recover from a second w...

"It's even more important that we continue to support children in these communities."

Children and parents around the world are making a new normal

But rainbows offer a ray of hope all over the country. “Andrà tutto bene"

As the conflict enters its 10th year, millions of children are entering their second decade of life surrounded by war, v...

UNICEF Pacific Chief of Comms Cate Heinrich flew aboard a lifesaving vaccine delivery to Samoa last November.

Doctor Nikki Turner

No child too far.

Four years ago, Ramia Saidawi left Syria, with her husband and two girls, for a life of safety in New Zealand

My bags and I are heading to Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh - the largest refugee settlement in the world

Three-year-old Nur has been vomiting for three days, with severe diarrhoea, and now his father watches him, wondering if...

Of every 1000 children under five in Kiribati, 47 will die, often from entirely preventable causes. But that's changing.

Eight-year-old Bassam and his family have been running from war for five years, only to have it chase them every step of...

An unusual ally has been enlisted in the fight against polio in the war-torn mountains of Yemen: Donkeys

New Zealand still isn’t immune from outbreaks of disease, and a lack of vaccination can still be a death sentence for ki...

As violence escalates in the Syrian region of Raqqa, families have been fleeing their homes to poorly equipped temporary...

Syrian children have been fighting to survive war, hunger, poverty and disease. But now they are fighting to survive the...

Every day we see the very worst of what people can do to one another, and the very worst conditions that people are forc...

Iman fled the war in Syria with her four children, but just when she thought they were safe – they faced a threat they c...

Meet Ahmed and Harry.

Marie-Pierre Poirier recently travelled the migrant route through the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and ...

Some Syrian families are attempting to live in relative normality, as fighting takes place down the road

The foreign object is a UNICEF sport-in-a-box kit. It’s the key ingredient in a new partnership between the Black Ferns ...

Baby Luthfi was born just six days after the dual disasters that devastated Indonesia. His mother was feeding him with f...

Most of the schools in Penama Province, Vanuatu, do not have toilets and there are some obvious health risks for childre...

Adaline has been sent home with a months-long course of Plumpy’Nut® – a peanut-based nutritional paste - that can return...

It’s not your ordinary peanut butter from the supermarket. It’s called Plumpy’nut®, also known as Ready-to-Use Therapeut...

In 2017 the Manaro volcano, on Vanuatu’s Ambae Island, started to erupt. Within days, the island’s residents were evacua...

By improving access to water, we’re improving children’s health and education.

It’s hard to be a child in Timor-Leste. New Zealanders are helping to change that.

Meet 31-year-old Michael Leo from Vanuatu. He works on an Orchard in Hawke's Bay to help his wife and two children back ...

Throughout the world more than 663 million people live without a safe water supply close to home. Many of our Pacific ne...