This Schools4Health policy brief explores how the Health Promoting School (HPS) approach can help address existing disparities and build stronger, fairer education systems.

Children and young people across Europe are growing up in a world shaped by climate change, environmental degradation, and health inequalities.

Globally, complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the leading causes of death among adolescent girls aged 15–19 years. In Zambia, nearly three in ten adolescent girls have begun childbearing, with rates as high as 35% in rural areas.

This document presents the Standard Operational Plan for implementing anti-bullying interventions in schools in Bhutan.

The objective of this narrative review of the literature was to present a detailed understanding of unintended adolescent pregnancies and explore the factors associated with these pregnancies, their consequences, and any gaps identified in the extant literature.

In this report, UNICEF has conducted both a mapping of indicators and a new analysis of data on violence against children (VAC) prevalence and incidence across the region.

The global community committed to end all forms of violence against children by 2030. But the Europe and Central Asia region - and the world as a whole - are not on track to keep this promise to children.

Despite recent policy reforms, such as Education Circular No. 2 of 2021 and the Secondary Education Quality Improvement Programme (SEQUIP) initiative, aimed at facilitating school re-entry, adolescent mothers continue to face considerable emotional, financial, and institutional challenges.

Children with disabilities are twice as likely to experience violence compared to peers without disabilities.

New forms of violence, such as cyberbullying, have emerged partly due to the increased use of technological devices at an early age.