The outcome of the recently concluded UN climate talks in Cancun has helped restore hope in the negotiations delivering an international climate treaty that will help guarantee a safe future for today’s children and future generations.

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Thirteen-year-old Mary lives and works with her family on the streets of Manila, capital of the Philippines. The family occupy a corner of the pavement outside Starbucks in Binondo Square, where they sell cigarettes and newspapers, cook and eat, and sleep outside at night.

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Sam Dimmock, UNICEF UK's Domestic Policy and Parliamentary Manager, says today's child poverty strategy falls far short of what is needed to help the 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK and raises serious questions about the Government’s continuing commitment to end child poverty by 2020.

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In January 2012, India's government announced that not a single child had been infected with polio in the past year. This is a huge step , considering that three years ago, India had more polio cases than any other country. Susan Mackay of our Polio Eradication...

Raabya Amjad, who works for UNICEF in Karachi, reports from Sukkur, the third largest city in the southern Sindh province of Pakistan, on the relief camps set up to house people displaced by the floods. Tired and expressionless faces searching for answers...

UNICEF’s Chief of Communication James Elder reports from Benghazi, Libya.

Before intense fighting engulfed Misrata 50 days ago, five-year-old Dava* would play dress-ups and make beaded necklaces. In this she was probably typical of most five-year-olds living in the western Libyan city. But who would know? For the first two months of this conflict, Libya appeared as this peculiar place devoid of children. There are many inexplicable things we see and hear in Libya, but the strangest has been the initial, almost complete absence of children from images and reports out of the conflict-ridden country. We didn’t see children, we didn’t hear from them, and much as we probed and queried we simply didn’t know nearly enough what was really happening to them.

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