Photo of the Week: surviving on wild grass
In this week’s photograph by Mike Pflanz taken in South Sudan in August 2014, Nyabel Wal holds a bowl filled with small-leaved succulent plants known in the local Nuer language as ‘wool’, which grow...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week: conflict-affected children
This week’s Photo of the Week by Tanya Bindra is of three-week-old Francine Melissa as she sleeps at the displacement site where she and her 14-year-old mother now shelter, in the conflict-affected...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week: World Polio Day
A polio team, accompanied by an armed escort, vaccinates children in a nomad community during a national polio immunization campaign in Pakistan in 2013 in this week’s Photo of the Week taken by Asad...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week: Conflict in Ukraine
Anya, 8, sits for a portrait taken by photographer Andrey Krepkih in Ukraine in 2014. Due to the ongoing conflict, Anya, fled her hometown of Bryanka in July and now lives in an accommodation centre in...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week: improving nutrition security
In Bangladesh a UNICEF-supported national nutrition security programme funded by the European Union (EU) aims to permanently reduce the rates of under-five child and maternal under-nutrition in the...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week: Five years after the earthquake in Haiti
Five years ago, just weeks after the 12 January earthquake destroyed her home, in a 2010 photo taken by Shehzad Noorani, this baby girl lay in a basin while her mother, a single parent with two other...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week: Ending FGM
Each year, some 3 million girls are subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM). Despite being illegal in many countries, the practice continues due to cultural pressures and, at times, is even...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week: ending the adolescent AIDS epidemic
While deaths from AIDS are falling among most age groups, progress is lagging behind for adolescents aged 10–19, for whom AIDS has become the second-leading cause of death globally. The All In campaign...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week: climate change & children
A boy holds onto a ledge outside his home amid extensive floods caused by heavy rains linked to La Niña climate effects, in Santa Cruz Department in this photograph taken by Shehzad Noorani in Bolivia...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week: Vanuatu’s ‘10,000 in 10’ campaign
Vanuatu, 2015: Tropical Cyclone Pam, which hit on 13 March, has disrupted access to safe water and sanitation in the South Pacific island nation, increasing children’s risk of water- and vector-borne...
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