UNICEF Publications
UNICEF publications play a critical role in fulfilling the organisation's mandate to advocate for the rights of every child, everywhere.
Download PDFs of the following UNICEF Reports:
UNICEF Ireland Annual Reports
UNICEF Ireland - Spring Update 2012
Report Card 11
Child well-being in rich countries: Ireland is the 10th best place in the world to be a child according to a UNICEF league table for child well-being.
State of the World's Children
Every year, UNICEF publishes The State of the World's Children, combining analyses, human interest stories, country profiles and statistical data.
UNICEF Humanitarian Action for Children
2011 Humanitarian Action for Children highlights the ways UNICEF is working to foster such resilience at the individual, community and institutional levels.
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
The Innocenti Research Centre undertakes original research to improve international understanding of issues relating to children's rights. Its many policy, technical and statistical reports are available at www.unicef-icdc.org.
Legislative reform to support the abandonement of FGM/Cutting
This paper presents the key features of a comprehensive legislative framework to support the abandonment of FGM/C. It also provides specific guidance on the content of the legislation, and its relationship to the process of social change that it is meant to support. Published August 2010
UNICEF World Malaria Day 2010 - Africa Update
This report focuses on malaria progress in Africa,and reveals that some countries have already begun to "count malaria out," while others continue concerted efforts to reach the 2010 coverage targets and reduce malaria deaths by half.