Blogs
Welcome to the blogs by UNICEF’s regional office for East Asia and the Pacific. The purpose of our blogs are to highlight different development issues facing the region’s children, as well as taking a more in-depth look at how they are being tackled beyond the ubiquitous human interest story you have all come to know and love. We will not go into detail about who UNICEF is and what we do in the region, but if you would like to find out more, feel free to visit us at www.unicef.org/eapro , follow us on twitter or our YouTube.
Child poverty: An interview with Mahesh Patel, UNICEF Regional Social Policy Adviser
Unsurprisingly, the research found that inequalities in the region are a major contributing factor to child poverty. For example, in Viet Nam, children from ethnic minority groups are 11 times more likely to suffer from multiple severe deprivations...
Climate change: An interview with Mia Urbano, author of Indonesia Climate Change Study
The children Mia met were experiencing bridges being washed out at a time of year when there should not be heavy rains; their fathers’ corn crops failing for the third time in a row because the rains returned too early; children describing more hardship, change, displacement, damage to their school and their home – very direct impacts.
Climate change: An interview with Donovan Burton, author of Kiribati & Vanuatu Climate Change Study
One of the things that really jumped out at me in reading the Pacific study was that how climate change affects children is largely being left out of discussions around how countries will adapt to the impact of climate change.
