Tens of millions of girls in the world are married while still children, many before puberty and often to much older men.
An estimated three million African girls undergo female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) every year.
Programmes to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV continue to expand in Zambia.
UNICEF held a photography workshop with 20 students in South Africa’s poorest province.
Pregnancy and childbirth remain perilous in Afghanistan, where maternal and child mortality rates are second highest in the world.
The devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in January 2010 also deepened the crisis of maternal health care in the country.
Sierra Leone continues to have one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world.
Part II of II: UNICEF held a photography workshop for 16 young people in the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Part I of II: UNICEF held a photography workshop for 16 young people in the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.