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Media Advisory
SOWC 2002 press kit
UNICEF REPORT DEMANDS LEADERSHIP ON
CHILDREN'S ISSUES
Who:
Carol Bellamy, UNICEF Executive Director
Maria Avakova, UNICEF Moscow and Speaker at 1990 World Summit for Children
Jennifer Jadwero, Kenyan Activist for Children and Young People
What:
International launch of UNICEF's flagship publication,
The State of the World's Children 2002 (SOWC 2002)
When:
Thursday, 13th September 2001, 10:30am to 11:15am
Where:
Danny Kaye Visitor's Centre, UNICEF House,
3 United Nations Plaza, 44th St. (between 1st & 2nd Ave.)
Why:
The report focuses on the critical role of leadership in shaping
a world fit for children. It says that broken promises hurt the children
of the 1990s and calls on leaders gethering in New York for the UN Special
Session on Children to "seize this opportunity to finish unfinshed
business". SOWC 2002 traces progress for children since the World
Summit for Children in 1990.
Advances highlighted in the report include:
- reduction of under-five mortality world-wide;
- decrease of child deaths from diarrhoeal diseases;
- near eradication of polio;
- reduction of learning disabilities for 90 million
new-borns annually through salt iodization treatments Areas that still
need action:
- over 10 million children are dying each year from
preventable causes;
- 149 million children in developing countries suffer
from malnutrition;
- some 100 million children are not in primary school
- the majority of them girls;
- millions of children are subjected to labour; sexual
trafficking and induction into the armed forces.
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For further information, photos, b-roll material
or interview requests, please contact:
Shima Islam,
Media, New York, (212) 824 6949,
e-mail: sislam@unicef.org
Patrick McCormick,
Media, New York (212) 326 7506,
e-mail: pmccormick@unicef.org
To obtain an embargoed copy of The State of the World's
Children 2002 and press materials, go to
www.unicef.org/media/englishregistration.htm
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