UNICEF in action

Fleeing gang violence and crushing poverty, families desperate to find safety for their children turn to the U.S.

Separation and detention rob children of their childhoods and cause toxic stress.

With new EU privacy rules and growing teen social media use, UNICEF & UNICEF USA ask industry to review their online policies for children.

Children forced from their homes by poverty and violence have the right to be protected and supported at every step along the way.

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.

Amidst hardship and uncertainty, UNICEF and LDS Charities deliver education and opportunity to refugee children and their families.

UNICEF USA is calling on America to revise its strategies for protecting children at the border.

"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...