In Nepal, districts are in a race to become open defecation free.

Watch 12-year-old Dima discuss her struggles, including to complete her education, in Kawergosk refugee camp, northern Iraq.

Maternal and child health care have come a long way since innovative pilot programmes were started five years ago in Madhya Pradesh, India.

UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake meets with mothers and their children, and those who are trying so hard to reach them, at the Abou Dhar Al Ghifari primary health care centre in Damascus.

Access to water and sanitation facilities and lessons on hygiene mean an improved learning environment for Afghan schoolchildren.

Measles is one of the leading illnesses of children under 5 years old in Nigeria. A nationwide campaign is targeting almost 30 million children for vaccination, including those who live in insecure states in the northeast.

UNICEF's Christopher de Bono reports on the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and the challenges facing emergency response efforts.

“You can see the extraordinary sadness in their eyes,” says UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake during his visit to settlements and public schools in Lebanon which will soon be hosting an expected 400,000 school-aged Syrian refugee children.

The recent polio outbreak in the Syrian Arab Republic highlights the urgency of vaccinating Syrian refugees in Jordan.

Learn more about the launch ceremony of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance (GIWA), the first global interfaith initiative to promote safe water, sanitation and hygiene. In 2011, some 768 million people still used unsafe drinking water sources.