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Photo essays
The Convention on the Rights of the Child
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). We have selected some rights that are very important to all children of India. The rights are written in a way that they are easily understood.
Community Radio Connects, Educates and Entertains
Ramvati Adivasi didn’t let the fact that she can’t read or write stand in the way of her burgeoning radio career. Today she’s conducting interviews, editing programs on the computer and performing scripts as a member of newly inaugurated Dharkan 107.8 FM.
India's Right to Education Act
The landmark Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 is the building block to make schools in India more child-friendly, ensuring both equity and quality for India’s 134 million children enrolled in primary school.
Global Handwashing Day 2009
Ten million students and 250,000 gram panchayats across India today celebrate the second annual Handwashing Day by demonstrating the correct way of washing their hands with soap, the best protection against diarrhoea and influenza.
Cyclone Aila swept away their lives
The emergency situation across parts of West Bengal remains grim with close to 195,000 people still living in 485 relief camps following cyclone Aila, which hit the state last month.
Changing Children’s Destiny
Community mobilisation efforts in rural Andhra Pradesh helps keep children away from work but in classrooms. UNICEF with support from IKEA Social Initiative is implementing a child rights programme in Andhra Pradesh.
Giving Girls a Chance - Today and Tomorrow
UNICEF with support from IKEA Social Initiative is implementing a child rights model in the state of Andhra Pradesh that increases children’s, particularly girls, access to a rights-based and quality education.
Changing lives, changing the future
In India, IKEA Social Initiative partners with UNICEF to develop integrated, community-based, sustainable approaches to improve child survival. Parul Tanti, an AWW in rural Assam, is kept busy by the children who need her attention and care.
Reaching out to make a difference
IKEA Social Initiative supports UNICEF in making a difference to child health and survival in India. This photo essay profiles Momi Doley, an ANM. ANMs across the country help link their communities and hard-to-reach populations to health care services.
Children’s Parliament in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
The UP State Legislative Assembly has shown the way by inviting 60 under privileged children from different parts of the state to hold a Children's Parliament in the Central Hall of Parliament. The proceedings were recorded by the Assembly Secretariat.
International Year of Sanitation
India is committed to achieving full sanitation coverage by the year 2012,even though almost 40% of the rural population still do not have toilets.Scaling up has been a priority and a total of 3.0 billion US dollars have been earmarked for the programme.
Rehabilitating flood victims in Bihar
The flood situation in India has significantly worsened in the last few days and the humanitarian situation due to flooding in northern Bihar continues to be precarious.
Polio: no place too far
This photo feature demonstrates the enormous challenge in reaching children in the high risk areas of Bihar. The trip to Sunita, a polio-affected child in Saharsa in the Kosi river area, was undertaken by SMNet Bihar team members.
The girl child in India
This photo essay showcases the lives of fourteen girls living in fourteen different states in India and shows what they all have in common – the constant struggle to get an education. Mithu Goswami, 8, from Assam, has had health problems since birth.
Eradicating Polio
India currently has 185 cases out of which 136 belong to the P3 strain virus – Uttar Pradesh has 133 of these. Bihar does not have a single P3 case at the moment and the P1 monovalent vaccine continues to be used in the state.
Girl Stars
UNICEF India in partnership with NGO “Going to School”, launched ‘Girl Stars’, a multi-media project .
60 years of progress for children
UNICEF's milestone progress in India over the last 60 years. With joyful learning and awareness about HIV/AIDS, UNICEF has left its mark in different segments of Indian society.
Girls' Education: Returning to Thangaselvi
Thangaselvi’s family and her teachers played an important part to the recovery and seemed to provide a matriarchal support system for the sisters to help the children over-come the loss of their mother and regain some sense of normality to their lives
Child Survival in India: A Serious Issue
An Unacceptabley large number of newborns and young children in India die unnecessarily. Teenage pregnancies, continuous physical labour, malnutrition, ill health and lack of rest put mother and baby at great risk.
Polio campaign underway!
An intensive polio campaign is underway across several states in India this week to fight back against a polio outbreak. 60 cases have been reported so far this year. This photo essay captures images of Polio Sunday in Moradabad, western Uttar Pradesh.
UNICEF IKEA Child Labour Elimination Project
India has the highest number of child labourers, under the age of 14, in the world. In partnership with IKEA, UNICEF is implementing a child labour elimination project in the carpet weaving belt of Uttar Pradesh. These images are from the project.
Malnutrition - India's silent crisis
Despite remarkable improvement in India on almost all fronts since the country's independence, undernutrition remains one of the most critical challenges for development planners today.
Child survival - the need of the hour
In India roughly two-thirds of infant deaths occur in the first month of life. Underlying causes of infant and maternal deaths include insufficient home care, failure to seek appropriate assistance, and inadequate access to quality health care.
Fluorosis - mitigating the scourge
More and more children are getting affected by Fluorosis due to high fluoride content in water as well as some food crops irrigated by fluoride contaminated water from tube-wells in the districts of Jhabua and Dhar in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
Maternal Mortality - the challenges
This photo essay is a glimpse into the lives of pregnant women in rural India and their day-to-day trials, irrespective of the region they belong to.
Children going back to school
UNICEF is assisting the tsunami ravaged areas of Cuddalore and Nagapattinam districts in the state of Tamil Nadu to `build back better’ by providing books, toys, school furniture, and also psychological support to the children affected by the tsunami.
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