Minister Ville Tavio and Unicef Deputy Director-General Kitty van der Heijden discussed issues related to innovative financing, private sector cooperation, and education technology. Finland is among the forerunners in education and innovation. UNICEF Innovation

Great meeting with Ville Tavio and the team at MFA Finland 🇫🇮 today. Finland's unwavering support to children's rights is invaluable. Together we are driving impactful changes worldwide in many areas, including education and innovation, #foreverychild

While everybody on the planet faces terrifying global temperature records we haven’t seen in 120,000 years, deaths from heat are shaped by inequalities in wealth, age, gender, access to services. Children and poor are especially vulnerable to heat stress. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

19 August is #WorldHumanitarianDay. Despite laws to protect them, humanitarian workers continue to be attacked, killed, injured and abducted. Join UN Humanitarian in demanding protection for them and their life-saving work for children. #ActForHumanity worldhumanitarianday.org

2024 is set to be among the most dangerous years for humanitarian workers. Attacks on them directly impact children’s survival, protection and health. This #WorldHumanitarianDay, join UNICEF in calling on governments to protect humanitarian workers. #ActForHumanity

In 2023, UNICEF responded to over 400 humanitarian crises in over 100 countries. Humanitarian workers stay amid extreme risks to deliver life-saving services for children. They can't do it without you. STAY with them, support them: uni.cf/46Peee8 #IStayForChildren

Unearmarked humanitarian funding helps UNICEF meet growing needs of every child in emergencies.   Grateful to GermanForeignOffice / 🇩🇪 GER on Peace & Humanitarian Action,Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 🇳🇱,Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs - our top government partners in 2023-2024 for supporting children in emergencies.   unicef.org/emergencies/gl…

The normalization of attacks on those who risk everything to assist others is unconscionable. On #WorldHumanitarianDay, I stand in solidarity with colleagues, partners, and friends around the world, as we honor the memory of those we’ve lost and demand change. #ActForHumanity

The toll in 2024 is staggering in terms of the number of attacks, deaths, injuries and kidnappings of humanitarian workers. Our system is failing. I stand in solidarity with my peers, colleagues and partners on #WorldHumanitarianDay to draw global attention to those lives lost.

On #WorldHumanitarianDay, I stood with sister agencies @refugees, @unicef, & World Food Programme to demand urgent action from world leaders. Together, we call for the protection of aid workers and civilians. It's time to #ActForHumanity.

Honored to stand with World Food Programme, UNICEF, and @OCHA in Rome on #WorldHumanitarianDay. I remember the devastating 19 Aug Baghdad bombing, where 22 colleagues were lost. We need real action to end conflicts and find lasting solutions. Civilians are #NotATarget. Let’s #ActForHumanity.

Humanitarian sisterhood in action!💪🏾 A big thanks to World Food Programme leadership for a great meeting in Rome & for co-organizing #WorldHumanitarianDay with us. A day well spent alongside Rania Dagash, Kelly T. Clements, Kitty van der Heijden reinforcing our shared commitment to #ActForHumanity.

Today, UNICEF is bringing 1.2 million doses of polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV) to #Gaza. With World Health Organization (WHO), UNRWA and other partners, we plan to vaccinate more than 640,000 children. #ForEveryChild, Health.

Mountainous glaciers have vanished throughout history, but the number of disappearances now is skyrocketing. New Zealand has lost > 260 glaciers. USA about 400. Venezuela is now glacier-free. East Africa has less than 2 km2 of total glacial ice remaining. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

The spread of poliovirus is a very real threat to the children of Gaza. UNICEF and partners are ready to administer life-saving vaccines. This requires critical polio pauses - humanitarian pauses in fighting to allow for two rounds of vaccination. Join us in calling for them.

UNICEF is ready to start the first round of the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza on Sunday to reach nearly 640K children. All parties MUST respect the area-specific humanitarian pauses to stop polio from spreading in Gaza and the region.

A two-round polio vaccination campaign for over 640,000 children by UNICEF and partners is scheduled to start in Gaza on September 1. All parties must respect the area-specific humanitarian pauses. The protection of children, families and community workers is critical.

The first phase of a critical polio vaccination campaign in Gaza started Sunday 1 September with UNICEF, WHO, UNRWA and partners. More than 85,000 children were vaccinated on day one. The two-round polio vaccination campaign aims to reach over 640,000 children.

‘Our countries are in the crosshairs of climate change.’   ‘Children's rights are being violated.’   ‘Children need climate action now.’   Powerful words from climate youth advocates Adia and Francisco who spoke at the UNICEF Board today.

At the Global Leadership Meeting we said “goodbye” to retiring friends and colleagues Adele Khodr and Chris Larsson, both with decades of dedication to children. I am so in awe of UNICEF staff. What makes UNICEF great is its people. It’s collegiality. It’s heroes like these two.