UNICEF

Voices of Youth was originally launched as a vehicle for more than 3,000 young people from 81 countries to send messages to world leaders at the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, in Copenhagen. It has provided a valuable gateway for exchanging ideas.

Now, UNICEF’s redesign of the site, to take advantage of the growing importanc...e of social media and mobile phones, is making it even more relevant.See More

VIDEO - In Theoneminutesjr. workshop...participants produce videos of sixty seconds that are positive and powerful examples of the way visual arts works as a communication tool across cultural, geographic and national borders.

This video was created by Karla Dawson, age 14

She uses a poem and visuals to expresses the pressures and fear...s of drugs in the schoolyard.

Created in the Barbados oneminutesjr. workshop.See More

Senegal, 2007: Children collect water from a tap at Nyassia Primary School in Ziguinchor Region. UNICEF works with the Government and other partners to provide essential services to children, who comprise half of the country’s population. Initiatives include the installation of safe water and sanitation facilities in schools, teacher ...training, hygiene promotion, child protection programmes, and health and nutrition programmes.
©UNICEF/Olivier Asselin
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VIDEO - 'The State of the World's Children 2011 – Adolescence: An Age of Opportunity,' UNICEF’s new flagship report, focuses on the development and rights of more than a billion children aged 10 to 19 worldwide.
This series of videos seeks to accelerate and elevate adolescents' fight against poverty, inequality and gender discriminati...on. Here is one of the stories.

To learn more, please visit: http://bit.ly/ejmzaYSee More

An iron-deficient diet, year after year, perpetuates an inter-generational cycle of anaemia. This has devastating consequences for children’s physical growth, mental development and school performance.

UNICEF has helped to implement a strategy which provides a single weekly dose of Folic Acid to all girls between ages of 10-19 in Jhar...khand.See More

VIDEO - 'The State of the World's Children 2011 – Adolescence: An Age of Opportunity,' UNICEF’s new flagship report, focuses on the development and rights of more than a billion children aged 10 to 19 worldwide. This series of videos seeks to accelerate and elevate adolescents' fight against poverty, inequality and gender discriminati...on. Here is one of the stories.

To learn more, please visit: http://bit.ly/hhHAmqSee More

VIDEO - STATE OF THE WORLD'S CHILDREN
Join UNICEF correspondent Priyanka Pruthi as she reports on UNICEF's flagship publication, 'The State of the World's Children 2011,' which is dedicated to investing in the development of adolescents to help break the cycles of poverty and inequity.
For more information, please visit: http://www.uni...cef.org/infobycountry/usa_57731.htmlSee More