Q&As and Commentary
Q&As and Commentary from UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office:
Q&A on orphans with UNICEF child protection officer
Children suffer the most in disaster situations – they tend to make up the largest numbers who don’t survive. Those who do may have lost their parents or whole families.
Q&A on sanitation in East Asia
Access to improved sanitation facilities varies widely from country to country. It is lowest in Cambodia, which had an estimated 28 per cent total sanitation coverage in 2006, followed by Timor-Leste with an estimated 36 per cent and Lao PDR...
Hundreds of thousands of children in this region do not survive the first three days of life!
Despite considerable progress in reducing mortality among children younger than 5, some 3,000 children continue to die daily in the East Asia and Pacific region. Of them, an estimated 32 per cent die within the first three days of life.
Children's citizenship and civil rights
The reason we’re talking about children’s civil rights and citizenship is because the term ‘participation’ has largely lost its meaning. It’s become so broad and vague and everyone understands something different by the term.
Q & A with UNICEF Life Skills in Education Specialist
Teaching life skills has become a critical element in UNICEF's definition of quality education. But ‘life skills’ is a term that different agencies and educators apply differently.
We know about the power of breastfeeding ... Why do fewer and fewer mothers choose differently?
According to the 2007 report, only 43 per cent of women in the region breastfeed exclusively for the first six months of their babies’ lives. This reflects a progressive downward trend from 56 per cent in 1999. A year ago, it was 52 per cent.
Q&A with Shelley Casey, UNICEF Child Protection Specialist: New Tactics for Juvenile Offenders
The number of children committing criminal offences has sharply raised public concern. Though most children commit only minor, petty crimes, the tendency is to lock them up – as a punishment and as an education or rehabilitation measure.
