A child-rights-based approach to education in disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programmes gives children the tools for healing, belonging and participation in…
Cholera was largely eliminated from industrialised countries more than a century ago, but there are still a significant number of cases each year in Africa
Instead of only focusing on what went wrong, analysing policies that have improved people’s lives helps governments NGOs in other actions
Providing effective, population-scale family support and 21st century transformative education is a nonnegotiable if we are to have any chance of eradicating violence, poverty,…
Immunisation and other preventative programmes for malaria, cholera, measles and malnutrition, which kill children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, must continue
Autumn matric camps cancelled as the actions of some provinces accused of being ‘tantamount to treason’ for wanting to keep them open
By using our urine and faeces as resources rather than waste, we can save our most precious resource – water
The government, private sector and civil society need to work together to address the causes of unhealthy eating in all its forms
This silent killer stalks expecting mothers around the world and is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in South Africa
From the Ganges River to Ghana, drones are delivering vaccines, HIV tests and blood transfusions and cutting waiting times for life-saving healthcare
‘Baby bins’ can mean the difference between life – and death at the bottom of a trash can.
Zimbabwe’s hospitals are being forced to carry out fundraising activities to keep afloat owing to low budget disbursements from the finance ministry.
Libya’s National Transitional Council needs the buy-in of all citizens to succeed
Unicef says increasing hostility toward aid agencies in war-ravaged Somalia is putting more than 850 000 children at risk.
The defunct health system and growing humanitarian crisis have had a devastating impact on children, and Unicef warns that child mortality will rise.
The ongoing violence in the DRC has put children at particular risk of recruitment into armed groups, Unicef said on Wednesday.
A strong aftershock rattled south-western Pakistan on Saturday, as aid agencies warned that disease had begun to spread among earthquake survivors.
A United Nations Children’s Fund aid worker was shot dead in southern Somalia on the weekend, a local UN official said on Monday.
Unicef on Monday urged the immediate release of 90 children kidnapped in the DRC by rebels from Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army.
Shurame Ibira is six years old, and even after nine days of emergency treatment against malnutrition, still weighs less than 9kg.
