UNICEF in action

Every year, 2.6 million newborns around the world do not survive their first month of life. One million of them take their first and last breaths the day they are born.

ALEX AND ANI and UNICEF celebrate International Mother Language Day, and their partnership to improve multilingual education in South Asia.

UNICEF is creating safe spaces for children whose lives have been disrupted by conflict in Afghanistan.

In the first 1,000 days of life, neurons in a child's brain form new connections at the astonishing rate of 700 - 1,000 per second, a pace never repeated again. Children who spend those early years...

The multipurpose cash assistance program aims to assist the most socioeconomically vulnerable households in meeting their basic needs by allowing households to determine their own needs and purchases.

Deadly violence has been raging for the past several months in the provinces of Tanganyika and South Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).