This year marks 30 years since the development of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), a small sachet of fortified 'peanut ...

My name is Lara Perera, and I have been working in UNICEF Sri Lanka since 2005. I joined UNICEF soon after the tsunami hit Sri Lanka, where over 35,000 people were killed and up to 1 million people ...

New UNICEF Child Alert warns violence, hunger, and displacement are once again defining childhood in one of Sudan’s most conflict-affected regions. PORT SUDAN/NEW YORK/GENEVA - Twenty years after ...

As his friends start counting down from three, Liveti sizes up his approach. He's barefoot but doesn't seem to notice the crushed corals and the rough, densely packed sand he's standing on. When his ...

Nauru and Manus Island are just the beginning. This should be reason enough to change how Australia responds to people seeking asylum. But the problems run far beyond these two remote islands. The ...

Here in Australia and around the world, young people are raising their voices on issues they care passionately about. From the environment to gender equality and everything in between, people like you ...

As households struggle with the cost-of-living crisis, a new UNICEF report has found one in six children in Australia have been left in a plateau of poverty for nearly a decade. Children in ...

UNICEF Australia welcomes the Australian Capital Territory’s historic decision to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14 years. This is a vital step toward ensuring that Australia’s ...

SYDNEY, 8 NOVEMBER 2024 - UNICEF Australia welcomes the intention to protect young people behind the proposed social media restrictions for under 16s, however, recognises that banning young people ...

The federal election is happening on Saturday 3 May, and it’s the first time Gen Z and Millennial voters will outnumber their older counterparts in an Australian election. It means that now more than ...

In Australia and around the world, children and young people are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis as their homes, communities and lives are being uprooted by more frequent and intense disasters ...

What’s inside this Plumpy’Nut® sachet that has saved millions of children? Plumpy’Nut®, also known as ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), is a high-energy peanut paste containing sugar, vegetable ...