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24 April 2024 | Geneva / New York / Seattle – A major landmark study to be published by The Lancet reveals that global immunization efforts have saved an estimated 154 million lives – or the equivalent of 6 lives every minute of every year – over the past 50 years. The vast majority of lives saved – 101 million – were those of infants. The study,…

GENEVA/NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, 13 March 2024 – The number of children who died before their fifth birthday has reached a historic low, dropping to 4.9 million in 2022, according to the latest estimates released today by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME). “Behind these numbers lie the stories of midwives…

In the last two decades, many efforts were made by the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to expand access to preschool and primary education. However, evaluations on educational quality, such as PISA 2018 and ERCE 2019, show a significant decline in learning at the regional level.  The above shows that attending school does not…

NEW YORK/DUBAI, 7 December 2023 – Most children and young people say they have heard of climate change but only half understand what it is, according to a new UNICEF-Gallup poll, as world leaders gather at this year’s COP28. The global poll found that on average, 85 per cent of young people aged 15-24 surveyed in 55 countries said they have heard…

The UNICEF report titled From the first 1,000 days to a resilient future . Environmental and climate education for early childhood in Latin America and the Caribbean   highlights that investment in policies and programs focused on the first years of human development have a triple dividend: promote climate resilience and adaptive capacity, protect…

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NEW YORK, 20 November 2023 – “Each year on November 20, we mark World Children’s Day to commemorate the 1989 adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) – the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. By ratifying this international legal framework, world leaders acknowledged that all children have…

Children are not like little adults. Their bodies and minds are uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change such as pollution, deadly diseases and extreme weather. Yet they have been either ignored or largely disregarded in the global climate change discourse and financing. While countries all over the world face water stress as they…

NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME, 5 November 2023 – For almost a month, the world has been watching the unfolding situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in shock and horror at the spiraling numbers of lives lost and torn apart.  In Israel, some 1,400 people have been killed and thousands have been injured, according to the Israeli…

Panama City, Panama. 27 October 2023. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report De los primeros 1000 días a un futuro resiliente First 1,000 days to a resilient future: Environmental and climate education for early childhood in Latin America and the Caribbean highlights that investment in policies and programmes focused on the early years…

Panama City, Panama. October 23, 2023.- The Fund for the Development of Indigenous People of Latin America and the Caribbean (FILAC) and the UNICEF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean have signed a collaboration agreement today to promote the rights of indigenous people of the region, with special emphasis on children, adolescents…

AMMAN / NEW YORK 21 October 2023 – Over 44,000 bottles of drinking water supplied by UNICEF – just enough for 22,000 people for 1 day – were driven through the Rafah Crossing today as part of a 20-truck convoy with the Egyptian Red Crescent, the World Health Organization and the World Food Programme. “With one million children in Gaza now facing a…