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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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Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability
Advocating for every child's right to a sustainable and healthy future
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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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Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, MANUU in Collaboration with UNICEF Hosts National Media Consultation on Road Safety at MANUU, Hyderabad
HYDERABAD, India, 22 May 2025—Creating safer roads for children and young people requires strong partnerships between government, educators, communities, and, the media. This was the key message echoed at the National Media Consultation on Road Safety and Systems Strengthening, organized by UNICEF India today in c...
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Where Steady Progress Is Paving Groundswell of Change
Field Note @Jharkhand 16 May 2025, My field visit in Jharkhand concluded on the third day. The firsthand experience of seeing collaborative action on the ground, the interactions, and the learning made lasting impressions. The warmth of the smiles as I walked through the villages, the delightful meetings with chil...
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Suru’s Nutritional Recovery: When Real Heroes in Health Systems Reach Child in Last Mile
Field Note @Jharkhand 15 May 2025 , The second day of my visit to the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand took me to West Singhbhum district, a land of lush Sal forests, winding red-soil roads, and quiet tribal villages nestled among rolling hills. The district's naturally endowed beauty and rich Indigenous culture,...
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Why Should I Wait? The Journey of A Child Reporter
Ranchi, Jharkhand 14 May 2025:, Today, on the first day of my visit to the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, I met a group of young journalists in the UNICEF Ranchi Office, along with four youth leaders who are part of UNICEF’s Child Reporters Programme. Over the years, the Child Reporters Programme has trained...
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UNICEF India Launches #MeriThaliSehatwali Digital Campaign
New Delhi, 16 May 2025:, - UNICEF India launched Meri Thali Sehatwali (my plate is a healthy plate), a digital campaign to promote healthy eating and healthy food choices for the whole family. This initiative is part of a nation-wide effort to improve food environments and diets toward realizing the vision of a we...
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Healthy Diets
‘Meri Thali Sehatwali,’ (my plate is a healthy plate), is a digital campaign to promote healthy eating and healthy food choices for the whole family. This initiative is part of a nation-wide effort to improve food environments and diets toward reaching the vision of a well-nourished India. The digital campaign aim...
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Empowering Children through Child-Friendly Panchayats in Rajasthan
In the vibrant villages of Rajasthan, the Child-Friendly Gram Panchayat initiative, supported by UNICEF and the Department of Panchayati Raj, transforms communities by placing children at the heart of decision-making. Rooted in the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, this initiative priori...
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Aarambh—The Joyful Beginnings of Life
The first 1000 days of life are critical for every child's development and are foundational to their future growth and well-being. A caring, nurturing, protective environment and emotional and cognitive support are vital to a child's early development. The Aarambh programme in Maharashtra signifies the early begin...
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UN report highlights great strides for India in under-five child survival
New Delhi, 04 April 2025 According to the UN Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), report released on 25 March 2025, under-five mortality in India declined from 48 to 28 per 1,000 live births between 2015 and 2023, while neonatal mortality dropped from 28 to 17 per 1,000 live births in the s...
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Let's Fix Our Food
A healthy food selection allows adolescents to live well, explore, extend life, form relationships, learn, build economic opportunities and contribute to society. However, easy access of unhealthy food option, inadequate access to nutrition knowledge, the lack of availability and affordability of healthy foods suc...
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Giving Girls Safe Spaces To Fly
Fourteen-year-old Kritika oscillates between excitement and unease outside her classroom at Adarsh Ramanand Middle School in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Her eyes sparkle at the thought of the new school, meeting new teachers, and making new friends. But soon, her anxiety about leaving Adarsh Ramanand Middle...
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Jaldoots: Assam’s Water Champions
On a bright February morning in Tarabori village, Morigaon district, ninth-grader Abhijit Patar noticed his uncle using the newly installed Piped Water Supply to wash his bike. Without hesitation, he intervened, explaining, “This water is meant for drinking and household consumption, uncle. The government provide...