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Unicef Photo Essays

Lang Lang: Music for children

World-renowned pianist and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Lang Lang launched a new foundation to help support young musicians.

Many cyclone victims still await relief

Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar's south-west coast, killing an estimated 100,000 people and leaving 1.5 million more struggling to survive.

Child's View – Picturing malaria in Liberia

To raise awareness about malaria and explore its impact on their community, 20 children participated in a photography workshop

Child's View – Beauty and peril in Rwanda

In a recent photography workshop in Rwanda, children explored the impact of malaria on their lives and communities.

Countdown for maternal and child survival

The Countdown to 2015 is a global partnership for renewed action in achieving health-related Millennium Development Goals.

The children of Yemen

The children and women of Yemen face severe challenges in a country often forgotten by the international community.

IKEA partners for reading in Albania

'Albania Reads' is a UNICEF and IKEA-supported Government initiative to restore a culture of reading among the country's youth.

Gaza's children bear brunt of ongoing conflict

Gaza's children, inheritors of the world's longest-running conflict, now also bear the brunt of new import and border controls.

Football legend David Beckham in Sierra Leone

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham travelled to Sierra Leone to draw attention to the issue of child survival.

Humanitarian Action Appeal 2008

UNICEF's annual Humanitarian Action Report appeals for funds for children and woman affected by emergencies around the world.

Meeting the child survival challenge

'The State of the World's Children' 2008 proposes key strategies to reduce under-five mortality by 2015.

Building a world fit for children

'Progress for Children' in 2007 reports on progress towards achieving A World Fit for Children targets.

Bangladesh cyclone: Two stories

Two 9-year-old girls in the hard-hit Barisal District work to ensure their families' recovery.

South Asia's maternal health crisis

Maternal health reflects the social status of women and is vital to meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

'Go to School' in Southern Sudan: Suku's story

The government's 'Go to School' initiative has increased enrolment to over 850,000, with over one-third of all students being girls.

Lebanon, one year later

One year after the war between Hezbollah and Israel, instability and insecurity continue to impede children's recovery.

Children and AIDS: A call to action

In 2007, 25 years into the epidemic, children are still largely missing from the global HIV/AIDS agenda.

Nigeria wages campaign against polio

In March 2007, Nigeria launched the latest in a series of polio immunization campaigns.

The life cycle of girls: Womanhood

Part IV of IV: Despite advances, gender violence and discrimination is still on the rise.

The life cycle of girls: Adolescence

Part III of IV: Adolescence, the passage between childhood and womanhood, is a time of particular vulnerability to exploitation.

The life cycle of girls: Primary school years

Part II of IV: Education is essential for the elimination of discrimination and violence against girls and women.

The life cycle of girls: Early childhood

Part I of IV: Despite significant gains, girls and women continue to face unique challenges and threats throughout their life cycle.

The Krishnamurthy sisters

The Krishnamurthy sisters are still recovering from the death of their mother in the 26 December 2004 tsunami.

The missing face of AIDS

The five-year Global Campaign on Children and AIDS places children and their needs at the top of the AIDS agenda.

Drug abuse in Maldives

Illicit drug use among adolescents in Maldives increased dramatically since the 26 December 2004 tsunami.

Drought in southern Somalia

Children in Somalia have already survived war, hunger, floods and forced dislocation.

Children: Two years after the tsunami

Two years after the tsunami, much has been rebuilt, but children's recovery from the trauma is far from complete.

Child's view: Tsunami recovery continues

Journalists and photographers organized the InSIGHT Out! workshop series to share their skills with 65 children in Thailand's worst-affected region.

The Double Dividend of Gender Equality

The State of the World's Children 2007 focuses on the gains for both women and children of gender equality.

UNICEF at 60: Children and the MDGs 2000-06

Part V of V: Children are at the heart of the United Nations' eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

UNICEF at 60: Recognizing child rights 1990-99

Part IV of V: The Convention on the Rights of the Child becomes international law, establishing State obligations to children.

UNICEF at 60: Child survival 1980-89

Part III of V: UNICEF launches the 'Child Survival Revolution' with low-cost health interventions that save millions of lives.

UNICEF at 60: The development decades 1960-79

Part II of V: UNICEF joins the UN-led partnership to jumpstart global development.

UNICEF at 60: An agency for children 1946-59

I of V: On 11 December 1946, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund – UNICEF – is created.

Daily life & education in Darfur's camps

UNICEF helps to provide shelter, education, special protection and other basic services to Darfur's displaced people.

Childhoods lost to HIV/AIDS

In sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS has killed one or both parents of more than 12 million children under 15 years.

Children of the Islamic world

The OIC, ISESCO and UNICEF call for a greater investment in the children of the Islamic world.

Child's view – My life after the earthquake

The EYE SEE II project features photographs by 160 Pakistani children affected by the 2005 devastating earthquake.

Progress for Children: Water and Sanitation

All children have a right to safe water and basic sanitation – and to the health they sustain.

MDG4: Reducing child mortality

Millennium Development Goal 4 aims, by 2015, to reduce by two-thirds the mortality rate among children under five.

Children and water

Lack of safe water is a public health emergency for children and their families.

Bangladesh immunizes 35 million against measles

Bangladesh reports that 99 per cent of children under 10 were vaccinated against measles in a major immunization campaign.

Child-friendly schools in Pakistan

'Child-friendly' schools offer free, quality education in safe environments that promote gender equity and diversity.

Child's view: My life at Amar Jyoti

In early 2006, several students at Amar Jyoti School in New Delhi, India, participated in a UNICEF photography workshop.

Medina wants to fly

Before Medina Humed Ahmed started school, she was silent on the subject of her future. Now, she says, she wants to learn to fly.

Polio immunization in Namibia

Namibia completed the second round of a campaign to immunize all of its 1.8 million people in response to a polio outbreak.

Child's view: Excluded and invisible in Iran

In late 2005 in Iran, 125 children, including Afghan and Iraqi refugees, took part in a UNICEF-supported photography competition.

Quake recovery continues in Indonesia

UNICEF continues to support Government recovery efforts more than a month after the 27 May earthquake.

Southern Sudan goes to school

After decades of war, Southern Sudan's new government has launched an ambitious 'Go To School' campaign.

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