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Students and survivors of school violence have one message to world leaders: ‘Listen to us!’
JOHANNESBURG/NEW YORK,, The event – hosted by UNICEF, Global Citizen, JCI and the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children ahead of the Global Citizen Mandela 100 Festival – is part of UNICEF’s global #ENDviolence campaign. Children and young people travelled from countries in Africa, Asia and the Ameri...
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Around 80 adolescents will die of AIDS every day by 2030, at current trends
NEW YORK /JOHANNESBURG, 29 November 2018, – Some 360,000 adolescents are projected to die of AIDS-related diseases between 2018 and 2030. This means 76 adolescent deaths every day – without additional investment in HIV prevention, testing and treatment programmes, UNICEF said in a new report released today. The r...
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Millions of the world’s poorest urban children are more likely to die young and less likely to complete primary school than their rural peers
New York, 27 November 2018 – , The poorest urban children in 1 in 4 countries* are more likely to die before their fifth birthday than the poorest children in rural areas. And the poorest urban children in 1 in 6 countries are less likely to complete primary school than their counterparts in rural areas, according...
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Millie Bobby Brown named UNICEF’s youngest-ever Goodwill Ambassador
NEW YORK,, 20 November 2018, – Emmy-nominated actress, Millie Bobby Brown, has been announced as UNICEF’s newest Goodwill Ambassador. The appointment – marked on World Children’s Day at United Nations Headquarters and the Empire State Building in New York – makes the 14-year-old UNICEF’s youngest-ever Goodwill Amb...
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National wealth does not guarantee education equality
FLORENCE/NEW YORK, 30 October 2018, – Living in a rich country does not guarantee equal access to quality education, according to Report Card 15 from UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti. Children in less wealthy countries often perform better at school despite fewer national resources, the report says. An Unfair S...