Baap Wali Baat
The Baap Wali Baat is a part of the #ItStartsWithMe campaign by UNICEF India and has been created to empower people to educate their daughters. It is time to #ENDviolence against children, including child marriage. The objective is to challenge people’s thinking about issues like violence against girls, prote
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Bollywood Actress, International Recording Artist and UNICEF India Ambassador Priyanka Chopra met with young women in Chandrapur, India, to mark International Youth Day[1] and to witness how their lives are being transformed through the Building Young Futures programme, which is run in partnership w
Giving Children A New Start To Their Lives
In this quiet village of Bhuja in southern Rajasthan, 14 year old Payal and her younger brother managed to stay back in school despite several pressures to get engaged in child labour following their father’s untimely death. The children suddenly learnt they had to earn wages to manage their family.
UNICEF Ambassador Shakira strikes a chord with girls from Udaipur
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Shakira met with a group of adolescent girls from Udaipur in Rajasthan. For Shakira, it was inspiring to hear the girls’ stories. “It is very special to spend time with these girls, internalize their challenges, their efforts to get an education and to make a better life f
SAWM INDIA and UNICEF partner
The India chapter of South Asian Woman in Media (SAWM) and UNICEF came together to mount an unprecedented initiative in which SAWM members – journalists in their own right – travelled across the country to report stories around 'A Day in the Life of…' an adolescent girl child in India. From Baramullah in the Kashmir valley to the jungles of interior Tamil Nadu, from urban spaces in Mumbai to the backwaters of Jharkhand's Singhbhum district, ten SAWM India journalists, from print and TV, in English and in several Indian regional languages, gave voice to gi
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