🚨It’s Difficult to Grow Up in an Apocalypse + Life in Colours reports on children and young people’s experiences of #COVID19 in 🇮🇹 + 🇨🇦 are out TODAY! Discover what young people learned from the pandemic + their fears, and hopes for the future ⬇ UNICEF Canada UNICEF Italia

It’s difficult to grow up in an apocalypse 😷 – that’s what children and young people want decision makers to know. 🆕 UNICEF Innocenti report explores young people’s opinions and experiences of #COVID19 in Canada 🇨🇦 ⬇ UNICEF Canada

⬇️ Heather Lawford of the #UBishops Psychology Department, co-director of research at the Centre of Excellence for Youth Engagement and leader of the CandYLab, was involved in the project, along with former students Sarah Caimano, also co-author, and Emily Prangley Desormeaux! 💜

🏄‍♀️ #COVID19 is a tidal wave that swept through children and young people's present lives & visions of the future. Discover how children and young people have learned to keep surfing in UNICEF Innocenti's Life in Colours ⬇

To support young people during & after crises like #COVID19, UNICEF Innocenti recommends 🧘‍♀️promoting #MentalHealth awareness 👨🏽‍🤝‍👨🏻creating safe spaces for social interaction 💻improving access to digital infrastructure 🙋🏽‍♂️involving young people in policy design Learn more⬇

#MentalHealthMatters. Which objects represent your own #COVID19 experience? Many young people shared their objects and coping strategies with us – see what they are 👇🏾

#MentalHealthMatters. Which objects helped you get through #COVID19 lockdowns? Our UNICEF Innocenti researchers asked many young people about their coping strategies during the pandemic and here were some of their responses 👇

Probably the best project I have worked on with our wonderful Articolo12 and a great team @Alessan74403741 and Rustin. Learn about children environmental rights, take the training here: leap.unep.org/ourrights-ourp…

Learn from activists, scientists and experts from around the 🌍 about your environmental rights! Take the #OurRightsOurPlanet online training 👉 bit.ly/ourrightsourpl… Special thanks to David Boyd SREnvironment Kelsey Archer Barnhill Madhvi4EE Josefa Tauli and Aniva Clarke

Together with Articolo12, Terre des Hommes and UN Environment Programme we are proud to launch: #OurRightsOurPlanet - a free training for young people to learn about and stand up for their environmental rights! Check it out➡️bit.ly/ourrightsourpl…

Hello! We're 13 children in the UNChildRights's Children's Advisory Team for #GeneralComment26! We'll be sharing news from our team and updates on how children worldwide can get involved in the #GC26 consultations 🌏➡️childrightsenvironment.org

🏄‍♀️Children and young people have been learning to surf the #COVID19 wave that swept through their present lives & visions of the future. Discover how their surfboards, techniques, and surf spots affect how they navigate this tidal wave in our report Life in Colours ⬇

We want to say a HUGE thank you to the 7,416 children from 103 countries who participated in the online questionnaire for the first phase of UNChildRights #GC26 consultations! Here's a special message from our team to you! 💚 Terre des Hommes Children's Environmental Rights Initiative (CERI)

The United Nations invited children and young people from around the world to share their views on their environmental rights🌳 ----------------------------- Our team at Articolo12 put together this final report with children recommendations🌿HAVE A LOOK AT IT 👇

Our Francesca Viola & Maria Rosaria Centrone were in #Turin presenting #ViteAColori alongside members of the Youth Advisory Board, Michele and Massimo Carlo, who supported the research project #ForEveryChild, participation 💙 EN ➡ uni.cf/3fidtU8 IT ➡ uni.cf/3RmMrs0

#MiniBiG è il nostro primo progetto in Puglia, frutto di una collaborazione con il Bari International Gender festival 💜 #MiniBiG is our first project in Apulia, result of a collaboration with the Bari International Gender festival 💜 Find out more: bit.ly/3zkWuYv

Scientists have begun to turn their attention to future pandemics that may be triggered by other pathogens hms.harvard.edu/news/covid-19s…

Fascinating research alert! 📑🔬 A study that dives deep into the risk and protective factors influencing adolescents' exposure to violence at home in Burkina Faso by Ronald Musizvingoza, fkotchere, Francesca Viola, UNICEF Innocenti, Nyasha Tirivayi ➡ go.unu.edu/euq6y

📢📢📢8,915 children from 76 countries of the world 🌍 shared their views on their environmental rights. Findings from the Second Phase of Consultations with Children and Young People for #GC26 are now available! Terre des Hommes 👉 childrightsenvironment.org/reports #ChildRightsEnvironment

🌍Exciting News!🌍General Comment No. 26 on children's rights & the environment, with a focus on climate change, is here! 🌟We proudly supported the inclusion of the views of 16000+ children in its text. Francesca Viola Chiara Massaroni Jennifer Waidler #ChildrensRights #GC26