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UNICEF today announced the launch of a new generation of innovative multi-purpose tents which will provide a wide range of humanitarian support for children affected by conflict and disasters around the world.

Ahlan Simsim, or "Welcome Sesame" in Arabic, designed to help children across Middle East cope with big feelings. New show is part of groundbreaking humanitarian program providing early learning to children affected by crisis and displacement.

Ahlan Simsim, or "Welcome Sesame" in Arabic, designed to help children across Middle East cope with big feelings. New show is part of groundbreaking humanitarian program providing early learning to children affected by crisis and displacement.

Billund, Denmark - Today, the LEGO Foundation announced partnerships with the Aga Khan Foundation, BRAC, Right To Play, UNICEF, VVOB - education for development, and RTI International. Each organisation will integrate Learning through Play pedagogies into the official in-service teacher professional development systems for primary school teachers in Kenya, Bangladesh, Ghana, Rwanda

Suspected al-Shabab fighters attacked a primary school in Garissa county near the border with Somalia.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has an ambitious vision: to build a world free from fear and from violence for each and every child. 2019 is a milestone year for this ambition.

Syrian government artillery fire killed nine people, including five children, in opposition-held Idlib province on Wednesday, first responders say.  

New pledges by Germany, European Commission/European Union, Norway and Theirworld bring January-December 2019 donor contributions to Education Cannot Wait to over a quarter of a billion US dollars – with over half a billion US dollars raised in just three years.

Hundreds of thousands of young children have had their education interrupted by the ongoing civil war in Syria. UNESCO Beirut sees quality early childhood education as a force for reconstruction, peace building and giving a sense of hope to young refugee children and their families.

The first Global Refugee Forum, which kicks off in Geneva today, comes at the end of a tumultuous decade in which the number of refugees has risen to more than 26 million people worldwide.