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On March 4, 2021, a child plays in the floodwaters in Gatumba, located near Bujumbura in Burundi.

What Climate Change Looks Like in Burundi

Families who have long struggled in this East-Central African nation, one of the world's poorest countries, are working harder than ever to keep their children safe and fed.
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An infant eats a nutritional biscuit supplied by UNICEF as part of ongoing relief efforts for children and families displaced by violence in Ethiopia's Tigray region.

UNICEF Acts as Crisis Deepens in Tigray

UNICEF accelerates humanitarian relief efforts amid intensifying violence in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region.
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Olivia Pena, deputy program director for the Young Center, sits with a migrant child who got separated from his parents at the U.S. border.

Inside Look: Centering the Best Interests of Immigrant Children

A Q&A with the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights Texas office about the group's work on behalf of unaccompanied migrant children.
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A father and daughter from Argentina who recently received support from Jewish Family Service of San Diego, part of the Rapid Response Network working in the San Diego border region to protect the rights of asylum seekers.

Inside Look: Welcoming Asylum Seekers in San Diego

A Q&A with Jewish Family Service about their team's legal and advocacy work for families seeking asylum in the United States.
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In Yambio, South Sudan, a UNICEF-supported rehabilitation program is helping Christian (name changed) to rebuild his life after his release from an armed group that abducted him when he was in his early teens.

Helping Traumatized Children Learn to Forget in South Sudan

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On 2 April 2020, Yolanda, 9, participates in one of her first virtual classes while studying from home in New York City, United States of America.

Protecting Children's Rights Online

In a world where more and more activities are taking place online, protecting and supporting children's rights is more important than ever.
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One of tens of thousands of children from Ethiopia's Tigray region who have crossed the border into Sudan, fleeing violence, since early November 2020..

Crisis in Ethiopia: UNICEF Pushes to Get Aid to Children in Tigray

UNICEF has been able to get some emergency supplies through, but it's nowhere near the scale of what's urgently needed.
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Capitol Building

For Teenagers in Newtown, CT, Political Activism Comes Naturally

Young volunteers raised in the shadow of the deadly Sandy Hook shooting worked to get out the vote & manned the polls on Election Day.
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Young adolescent girls in Husangar village, Sri Dungargarh block, Bikaner district, Rajasthan, India in 2018.

Not An Object: On Sexualization and Exploitation of Women and Girls

Objectification and sexualization of girls in the media is linked to violence against women and girls worldwide.
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