UNICEF in action

A toddler dies on the border as reports of migrant children held in unsafe U.S. facilities spark demands for action to keep children safe.

New research presents a global picture of who has access to safe services — and who doesn't — revealing persistent inequalities.

To much of the world, the conflict that has terrorized the people of the Central African Republic (CAR) since 2012 is a forgotten crisis. But to the 43,000 children of the nation who are suffering...

The UNICEF Humanitarian Drone Corridor in Malawi is a testing ground for innovative drone projects that can help save lives.

Trained as masons for a sanitation project, women in Jharkhand are changing the conversation about gender roles and girls' futures.

It took about a year, but Mario, a teen from El Salvador, was eventually recognized as a refugee by the government thanks to UNICEF.

As children, many of us had a prized possession — but what if you had been forced to leave home suddenly, fleeing war or escaping poverty?

"In kindergarten, they teach us the letters and the numbers, and we play together," Mohammad, a wide-eyed 6-year-old, (below) tells a visitor to his class in Jordan's Za'atari Refugee Camp. "When I grow up, I want to become a policeman."

They have been through so much, and they have so little. Many of the approximately 40,000 Syrian refugee children growing up in Jordan's sprawling Za'atari refugee camp don't remember a time before Syria's brutal civil war began in 2011.