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Adolescent girls attend Karate class as part of a UNICEF-supported girls' empowerment program in the village of Madanpur in India's Jharkand State in December 2016.
UNICEF and Dove Team Up To Empower and Educate Girls
Self-esteem and body confidence training helps girls around the world build self-assurance and reach their full potential.
Girls participate in a UNICEF-supported menstrual health and hygiene program in India.
UNICEF and Duke University to Team Up on Menstrual Hygiene
A new partnership aims to accelerate innovative, sustainable solutions to one of the biggest issues for adolescent girls.
Brothers Anesu Mupfute (left) and Future Gore stand near the spot where their house was swept away when Cyclone Idai hit Coppa in Risitu Valley Chimanimani, Zimbabwe in March 2019.
Deadly Cyclones Are On the Rise and Climate Change Is To Blame
Climate change is exacerbating extreme weather events, and the world's most vulnerable children will bear the brunt of these disasters.
On June 17, 2018, three laughing children play outside their newly opened mobile "ger" kindergarten in the Janjin bagh area of Mongolia's Bayankjongor Province. The mobile kindergarten provides early education for more than 20 children in the nomadic herd
Want to Change the World? Send a Child to Preschool.
Children enrolled in quality early learning programs do better in school, and go on to become more productive adults.
A family take to their boats after severe flooding in 2017 in the northern district of Kurigram, Bangladesh.
A Gathering Storm: Climate Change Threatens Lives and Futures
More resources and innovative programs are needed to protect children in Bangladesh from environmental disasters caused by climate shock.
Adolescent girls conduct experiments during a chemistry at UNICEF-supported Kamulanga Secondary School in Lusaka, Zambia in 2016.
Women Continue Empowering Women and Girls Around the World
UNICEF USA partners with Dining for Women and Zonta International to promote equal rights for women and girls.
A mother and five children who were registered using a new digital service in Pakistan.
How UNICEF Is Leveraging Mobile Tech to Get Results for Children
A partnership that enables digital birth registrations in Pakistan.
Approximately 248,000 children — some as young as 12 — were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010.
On the Front Lines in the Fight to End Child Marriage in the U.S.
Forced into an abusive marriage at 19, Fraidy Reiss escaped and started a nonprofit to support girls and women trapped in wedlock.
In Jordan in 2018, a Syrian refugee shows off his LEGO building skills as part of the Learning Through Play partnership between UNICEF and the LEGO Foundation. 
Creative Play Can Help Build Children's Futures
UNICEF and LEGO have teamed up to help children around the world learn problem-solving, creativity, communication and teamwork.
No More Child Trafficking
A Girl Scout tells her story of working to raise awareness of child trafficking in the U.S and India.
Students attending class in an Islamic school in Biankouma, a village in western Côte d'Ivoire.
In Photos, 10 Classrooms From Around the World
UNICEF is helping children in 155 countries get the quality education they deserve. Here, a look inside schools around the world.
UNICEF, education, education for girls, India
Leveling the Playing Field
Education can be a critical tool for addressing poverty and protecting children from forced labor, child marriage and trafficking.

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