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A mother in Pakistan with her five children, all of whom were recently registered and issued birth certificates using a new digital registration service launched by Telenor Pakistan in partnership with UNICEF.

How UNICEF Is Leveraging Mobile Tech to Get Results for Children

A partnership that enables digital birth registrations in Pakistan.

For World Children's Day, kids who live in an orphanage in the southeast of Côte d'Ivoire jumped for joy when they were given the chance to take over their dance class. © UNICEF/UN0257542/Diarassouba

The Power of Sports and Play

It’s hard to imagine childhood without play. When they play, children learn how to explore, invent, create and collaborate with others. Those skills help them when they are very young as they make friends and learn how to be in the world.

Primary school students in Aurangabad, Maharashtra state, India, after playing a cricket match organized by a UNICEF-supported program emphasizing social change through sport.

How Sport Drives Development — and Sets Kids Up for Success

A look at how physical play serves broader UNICEF goals for vulnerable children in education, protection, social inclusion and empowerment.

UNICEF-supported polio worker Afia (name changed), 19, vaccinates a child in an old military barrack in Afghanistan in March 2018.

Immunization Under Fire

Almost 8 million unvaccinated or under-immunized children live in fragile or humanitarian settings, including countries affected by conflict.

A UNICEF-supported health worker vaccinates a child against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) at the 9 Mile Health Clinic in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea in March 2019.

Alarming Global Surge of Measles Cases Is a Wake-Up Call

More contagious than Ebola, tuberculosis or influenza, the potentially deadly measles virus is on the rise. Globally, measles cases increased by 48.1 percent between 2017 and 2018, according to data on 194 countries from the World Health Organization.