This UNICEF article describes how in Musenyi, Burundi, a project implemented by Save the Children, with support from UNICEF and funding from the Global Humanitarian Fund, provides protection, care, and hope to Congolese refugee children separated from their families.

This article highlights a warning from the UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons about the growing risks of child trafficking among migrant, forcibly displaced, and stateless children.

This article highlights the devastating impact of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, including the deaths of children living in orphanages and other vulnerable settings.

This article examines the growing concerns around child-headed households in Zambia as disruptions to HIV treatment access leave some parents unable to continue receiving life-saving medication.

This photo essay documents the experiences of children in Gaza who have lost one or both parents during the ongoing conflict and are navigating grief, displacement, and profound changes to their daily lives.

This New York Times video documents how an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has affected a vulnerable group of children living in an orphanage, showing how the arrival of an infected newborn triggered a rapid health crisis.

This article highlights a major milestone in child protection reform in the Nisporeni district, where no children under the age of six are now living in residential care institutions. This achievement follows several years of coordinated efforts by UNICEF, the Moldovan government, and partners to deinstitutionalize young children and expand family-based and community care alternatives.

This statement from UNICEF Tajikistan announces and welcomes the government’s adoption of its first-ever National Programme on the Protection of Child Rights (2026–2030), describing it as a major step toward strengthening the country’s child protection system.

The Guardian article is a deeply personal account of an adoptee who reconnects with his birth parents decades after being forcibly separated from his mother at birth in 1970s Britain, a time when social stigma and institutional pressures led many unmarried women to relinquish their children.

This article reports on a major policy shift in Queensland, Australia, where the government has announced plans to remove children under the age of five from residential care settings following findings from a Child Safety Commission of Inquiry.