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BEIJING, China, 12 August 2023 – In observance of today’s International Youth Day, the United Nations Theme Group on Youth (UNTGY) in China wraps up a four-day celebration of the occasion, recognizing the influential role of young people in shaping a green future. The theme of this year’s International Youth Day is “Green Skills for Youth: Towards…

Highlights of the youth roundtable on Climate Innovation Network: Climate Change response, Youth in Action at ASEAN-China Environmental Cooperation Forum, September 2022, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. The climate crisis is a child rights crisis. Children are the least responsible for climate change, yet they will bear the greatest…

BEIJING and Brisbane, 20 September 2022 — Young delegates from Asia and Africa and top officials from China today took on a central role to advocate for children and young people’s active role in sharing their innovative solutions to reduce disaster risks at a major regional conference in Brisbane. Held this week, the 8th Asia-Pacific Ministerial…

“Play is the highest form of research” Albert Einstein Teacher Yang has vivid memories from his childhood of playing among the bamboo forests and in the mud. His colleagues remember having freedom to explore and take risks, such as learning persistence and agility by climbing trees. Teacher Yang and fellow early-years educators had a chance to…

Hello, everyone, I'm Zhao Chen, a UNICEF Youth Advocate. I am a visually impaired person. In the past 21 years of my life, with the gradual loss of my vision, digital technology has witnessed accelerated development, from the personal handphone system to the mobile internet, and from Happy Farm (an online social game), to the blockchain and the…

Beijing, 20 November 2021 – Children, young people, partners from all sectors, celebrities and the public in China came together to mark World Children’s Day, 20 November. World Children’s Day is a global day of action for children, by children. This year, as the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis continue to inequitably affect children…

This summer, UNICEF and NYT Kids China invited adolescents from China, Romania and India to participate in a Pen Pal Initiative.  These kids, between 14 to 18 years old, share diverse cultural perspectives but also a common passion for mental health. Over the course of three weeks, they exchanged their inspiring ideas., 01 On Promoting Mental Health, Shirley Parents and schools could help in popularizing the importance of mental health and steps we can take to improve it. I think parents should take the responsibility to take care of their children’s mental health. I also believe that school, as an influential part of teenagers’ daily lives, could lead efforts to popularize mental health…, 02 On Peer Support, James When I or my friends face problems or difficulties, we would get together for a meal and talk it out. It is quite effective. I believe schools should guide students to correctly evaluate themselves and accept themselves. To achieve this, they can carry out psychological counseling activities. JAMES, China Shirley As teenagers, we can write…, 03 On Talking About Mental Health, Brianna Start conversations. Sometimes we are reluctant to talk about mental health because we are afraid what we might say isn’t what others want to hear. However, once the first step is taken, we will feel the support from people around us, and this will have a rippling effect. BRIANNA, China Paavani Widening our vocabulary to truly understand…

COVID-19 icon Support maternal and newborn health icon Emergency humanitarian assistance icon ECD icon Knowledge exchange icon, COVID-19 and Desert Locust Response: 2020-2021, A girl eats Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), as part of treatment for malnutrition at the Mama Mwilu Health Centre, Kananga, Kasai-Occidental province, Democratic Republic of the Congo., Mitigation of Nutritional Consequences of COVID-19 and Desert Locust in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and South Sudan, In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), more than 4 million children and women were at risk of acute malnutrition in 2020. The situation is exacerbated by longstanding food insecurity and militia violence. The country is also facing multiple deadly epidemics including measles, Ebola and cholera. In South Sudan, 1.3 million children under 5…, Fighting COVID-19 by Providing Health and Nutrition Services to Women and Children in Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia and Senegal: 2020-2021, Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia and Senegal vary in terms of social and economic development, but they share many conditions and difficulties, including high under-five mortality rates, poor nutrition results, and insufficient access to maternal, newborn and child health services. In Cameroon, 25 per cent of under-five deaths occur during the neonatal…, Maternal and Newborn Child Health Support, Community health worker, Tambudzai Vumisai, checks a five-month-old boy, Prosper Maidle, for signs of malnutrition in Nyahode, Zimbabwe., Projects to Improve Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Eight African Countries: 2020, UNICEF is working with government partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Zimbabwe, with support from the China International Development Agency (CIDCA) and the International Health Exchange and Cooperation Center (IHECC), National Health Commission of China. Over the past three…, Emergency Response, Projects to Provide Humanitarian Assistance for Populations Impacted by Cyclone Idai in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe: 2020, Cyclone Idai, which hit in March 2019, was the worst natural disaster in Southern Africa in nearly two decades. The cyclone affected 270,000 people and left 129,600 children in need of life-saving support. UNICEF has been running three projects to help affected people in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe recover, in partnership with CIDCA and…, Life-Saving Emergency Assistance to Girls, Boys and Women Affected by Severe Acute Malnutrition in Somalia; Assisting Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon, The humanitarian crisis in Somalia in 2017, which was triggered by the failure of consecutive rainy seasons, led to massive displacement, disease outbreaks and malnutrition. Half of the country’s population – 6.2 million people – were left in need of humanitarian assistance, some 4 million of them children. In Lebanon, Syrian refugee children and…, Early Childhood Development, Cambodian preschool children safely returned to school during the COVID-19 pandemic thanks to the water, sanitation and hygiene supplies provided with support from China., COVID-19 Response and Recovery for Early Childhood Development in Cambodia: 2020-2021, As COVID-19 hit Cambodia, young children, particularly those under 5 years of age and from remote and rural communities, lack understanding of personal hygiene and struggle to continue their studies under social distancing measures. Parents are under stress due to school closures and financial pressure. Community preschools, which are key to…, Early Childhood Development in the Face of COVID-19 in Myanmar: 2020-2021, As the COVID-19 pandemic hit Myanmar, children in the country, especially those under 8 years of age, are being impacted by the closure of early childhood development institutions and schools. As Myanmar’s public health system is stretched thin, medical workers are finding it difficult to care for their young children at home. Their households and…, Knowledge Exchange, Testing the use of drones in search and rescue operations, Kazakhstan., The China-Sierra Leone-UNICEF COVID-19 Pandemic Prevention and Control Knowledge Sharing and Experience Exchange Conference: August 2020, UNICEF Sierra Leone, UNICEF China, the China NGO Network for International Exchanges and representatives from civil society organizations from China and Sierra Leone took part in this event. Civil society organizations play a vital role in communicating risks and engaging with communities to help mitigate COVID-19 and create world fit for children…, Kazakhstan-China Exchange on Emergency Management and Disaster Reduction in the Best Interests of Children, UNICEF Kazakhstan, UNICEF China, the National Disaster Reduction Center of China (NDRCC), Kazakhstan’s Center for Emergency Situations and Disaster Risk Reduction (CESDRR), and Kazakhstan’s Emergency Committee took part in this event. Both China and Kazakhstan – like many countries around the world – are not spared from natural disasters that…, National Pathways to Child Poverty Reduction under the 10 th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Africa-China Poverty Reduction and Development Conference, UNICEF, International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC), China’s State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development (LGOP), and delegates from seven African countries took part in this event. Africa’s burgeoning population (home to one billion children and more than 40 per cent of the world’s children by 2058)…