stories from the frontline

Vaccines protect children against disease and death, saving up to three million lives every year.

Vaccines work. We're busting some of the most common myths around vaccinations so you can learn the truth.

Find out what we're doing to help create a world where every child has the chance to survive and thrive.

We want to see a world where no child dies from a vaccine-preventable illness.

In an area plagued by gang violence, sport and recreational activities offer children a haven from insecurity on the streets of El Salvador.

In a crisis that has shocked the world with its scale, it is the number of children struggling to exist within that crisis that is truly staggering.

When Ruba was born 1000 days ago, frail and underweight, her mother, Fawzia, was already sick and malnourished. Fawzia’s husband, Mastour, was struggling...

Abdullah rubs the stem of a flying dragonfly toy between his palms, as if for warmth, and gasps with delight as friction shoots the colourful propellor...

Syrian children have had their childhoods torn apart by war. And now they face a threat they can't escape: winter.

A series of special features on Syria will air on TV3 from this Sunday. Don't miss them!

It was three years ago, on a Tuesday morning, when Boko Haram stormed Zara’s village, and the slaughter began...

It would be unconscionable for us to watch other countries suffer and drown while we reap the benefits of cheap labour from those same countries.

For eight hours Camilia Nazerio hid in her bathroom with a 10-week-old baby, while one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded bore down on them.

Cox’s Bazar was once known for its fishing, its tourist attractions, and having the world’s longest beach...

“In the night I wake suddenly, because I see the killing and the people who were shot. I see those things again.”

Syrian children have already been through so much. And now as a deadly winter looms, children face snow storms, bitter winds and the freezing cold unprotected.

Schools are helping Syrian children overcome the horrors they’ve experienced. But freezing classrooms are driving countless children away from learning.

Iman fled the violence in Syria with her four children, but when she thought they were safe – they came under attack from a threat they couldn’t escape: winter.

This election, we’ve asked New Zealand’s political parties exactly what they are planning to do for children. The answers are illuminating.

If you want to see the impact of growing up in poverty, have a look in the emergency rooms of NZ's hospitals. Poverty and poor housing is making our kids sick.

Every day in NZ, kids are turning up to school with no shoes, no coats and empty bellies. How can we ensure that every Kiwi kid gets a fair chance to learn?

We want every voter to be thinking about how we can reduce the rates of child poverty in our country, and we want every political party to be discussing this.

NZ is in the middle of a housing crisis with many sides - cost, quality and availability among them. But every child has the right to a safe and healthy home.

In Yemen’s war-torn classrooms, books and pencils are being replaced by mortars and automatic weapons.

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

It is our national shame. We are hurting and killing our children at horrific rates.And we are damaging future generations...

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

We’ve all heard the horrors from Syria but far fewer people are talking about Yemen...

The Kingdom of Thailand wants every child in the country to receive an education, no matter where they come from...

Thirteen-year-old Ahmad doesn’t go to school. Instead, he goes to work. Hard, back-breaking work...

When Cyclone Winston hit Fiji last year, ferocious winds knocked down everything in their path and a tsunami-like storm surge removed almost all that remained.

New Zealand has performed poorly in a global report card on children’s well-being, and Kiwi kids will continue to miss out unless there is a change...

“If this well dries up completely, I think we are going to be finished. This is the end of us.”

Eight times a day, the water arrives by bicycle, sloshing around in big, yellow jerry cans tied to a creaking bicycle frame...

Three-year-old Nur has been vomiting for three days, with severe diarrhoea, and now his father watches him, wondering if he waited too long to bring him in...

The first light of morning brought bad news to Mohammed, in the small hospital room where he has been staying...

Clouds of dust billow across the pathways of Badanrero Village. As the dust picks up momentum, small children and goats scurry for shelter...

Everyone knew when Zajhyn Eruera, 10, was unhappy. He would scream and shout at the teachers, flip over tables and then bolt for the door...

These small island states in the Northern Pacific are remote, and their inhabitants, including many children, have been missing out...

Hamish from UNICEF explains how the work he helps coordinate ensures a more prosperous future for kids growing up in the Solomon Islands...

There are children sprawled on the floor of wards, twisting and turning with discomfort upon their mattresses...

Malnourished and feeble, the infant had been suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting for close to a month..

Shanthi Renuka Liyanage was thousands of kilometres away when she heard that her home had been washed away...

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

The Beeple Honey Collective is teaching urban kids how to be urban beekeepers. It's keeping the community's people (and bees) happy, healthy, and well fed.

When 19-year-old, award-winning shot putter Nathaniel is not training, he's helping out Kiwi kids as a teacher aide at a Hutt Valley kindergarten.

Kyla Reina is a Women's Refuge counsellor who works with children of women living in abusive relationships. She says that young people are victims as well.

Last month New Zealand's approach to ensuring the rights of our children are upheld came under the scrutiny of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Violence against children in the South Pacific is a silent plague that has the power to undo all the positive development efforts made in the region.

New Zealanders are waking up to the reality of our housing crisis: A market that's failing to protect the rights and health of our own people.

Toby Fricker shares his experience of meeting young children determined to keep learning while living on the frontline of Ukraine's violent eastern conflict.

Marie-Pierre Poirier recently travelled the migrant route through the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia. She shares her story with us.

There has been progress in tackling poverty around the world but many children still miss out. These facts galvanise UNICEF to take action to end child poverty.

19 year old Lyric Brooklyn has spent time living on the streets since his early teens. He talks about the challenges of being young and homeless in Wellington.

The impact of climate change on kids has increased spectacularly over the last ten years. It's now a concern that has huge ramifications for how families live.

Poverty and poor housing conditions put 40,000 New Zealand children in hospital every year. There is an un-level playing field for child health in New Zealand.

11-year-old Sabah has seen things no child should see. But even being confronted with violence on almost a daily basis, going back to school was her dream.

Until poverty, unemployment and poor living conditions are addressed, Somali children will continue to live, and die, from the menace of hunger.

As the world shifts its attention to the thousands of families fleeing war torn Syria, I feel obligated to write about the few who have returned.