UNICEF in action

In honor of World Breastfeeding Week 2018, a look at why UNICEF is committed to increasing the practice.

It was a typical day in Myanmar’s Rakhine State for 14-year-old Shofika* until the soldiers pushed their way into her family's yard. “I was grinding chilies when the military came,” the young girl told UNICEF in late April at a refugee camp in Bangladesh.

"They call it by many names: the sphere, the round, the tool, the globe, the balloon, the projectile." — Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, "Soccer in Sun and Shadow" All children need to play. For...

When Anjali came to the University of Georgia, she founded a UNICEF Campus Club. Now, she reaches out to her community about vaccination.

See how far we've come in the fight against rotavirus, the deadliest diarrheal disease in children under five. But more needs to be done

Poverty, gender inequality, and unsafe migration make children susceptible to trafficking.

The fight to end child trafficking is a crucial part of UNICEF's commitment to protecting the rights and futures of children everywhere.

UNICEF USA New York board member Purvi Padia has made it her mission to help the 1.5 million children in India growing up without a family.