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Nutrition First: From Surviving to Thriving
We advocate for healthy diets and nutritional practices to ensure every child, adolescent, and woman grows optimally and lives a healthier life.
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Children in Karnataka
More to be done to curb high incidence of child labour, marriage and trafficking.
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Children in Assam
Assam’s complex social, political and geographical realities have added to the challenge of providing child development services.
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Children in West Bengal
The pace of development of the soon to be ‘100 million’ state may not be adequate to cope with this population dividend in the coming years.
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Children in Uttar Pradesh
Life can be uncertain and, in many cases, cut short for children in UP. Each year, about 380,000 of the State’s children die before the age of five years.
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Children in Telangana
Working together on a multi-dimensional plan to address stunting, wasting and improve breastfeeding practices.
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Understanding child migration in India
Across India, every fifth migrant is a child. According to the latest data available from Census 2011, there were 92.95 million internal child migrants dispersed across the country, with present day figures likely to be much higher. However, child migrants are far from a homogenous group. For some children, migrat...
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Partner With Us
In order to realize its vision of a world where children’s rights are respected by all, UNICEF works in close cooperation with government institutions, civil society, media, professional associations, and academic institutions in India, as well as with its international partners. Tahera Yusuf, an Aanganwadi worke...
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Donate to UNICEF and make a difference
., Donate to UNICEF and make a difference, If you are an existing donor with UNICEF, thank you for your ongoing support to help every child in India. If you require assistance regarding your donation, please contact our donor help team at 1800-3000-5898 or indiadonors@unicef.org, It's easy to donate to U...
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World failing to provide children with a healthy life and a climate fit for their future: WHO-UNICEF-Lancet
NEW YORK/ LONDON/ GENEVA, 19 February: No single country is adequately protecting children’s health, their environment and their futures, finds a landmark report released today by a Commission of over 40 child and adolescent health experts from around the world. The Commission was convened by the World Health Orga...
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Motor-bike ambulance: Providing accessibility to health services in India’s remote regions
The Narayanpur district in the central-eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh is surrounded by dense forests, hills, streams and natural caves. About 1,000 sq km of the district – which is about 186,873 football fields – is forest. Tribal communities comprise more than 77 per cent of the total population of the dist...
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UNICEF India
Stories and news, UNICEF’s work, UNICEF is committed to promoting and protecting the rights of children in India, where it has been active for 75 years. With approximately 450 staff members working in 17 states, covering 90 per cent of India's child population, UNICEF has the largest field presence among UN agenci...
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Religious leaders In South Asia commit to work with UNICEF to protect and promote children’s rights
PARO, 29 January 2020 –Forty-five religious leaders from South Asia, in a meeting hosted by the Government of Bhutan with support from UNICEF, today agreed to support child rights in all eight of the region’s countries. Religious leaders from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sr...
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Ending child marriage in India: Drivers and strategies
India has articulated its commitment to eliminating child marriage through numerous policies, laws and programmes; yet, more than one in four young women aged 20-24 was married in childhood (below age 18), and lack of voice in marriage-related decision-making abounds. The persistence of child marriage remains a po...
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Ensuring rights of every child needs a peoples’ movement says UNICEF, marking 70 years of partnership and results for children in India
NEW DELHI, 11 DECEMBER 2019 – UNICEF in India today celebrated 70 years of service for children in the country (1949-2019), marking its partnership with the Government of India working to realise rights for every child everywhere in India. In an open day at the UNICEF India headquarters in New Delhi, more than 50...
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Children in Karnataka
The challenge, Karnataka has three main geographical zones - a coastal region, a hilly region along the Western Ghats and a region covering the plains of the Deccan plateau. Due to an impressive economic growth rate over the past two decades, Karnataka has invested in areas of social development, including health ...