NEW YORK, 19 November 2020, – UNICEF warned in a new report today of significant and growing consequences for children as the COVID-19 pandemic lurches toward a second year. Released ahead of World Children’s Day, Averting a Lost COVID Generation is the first UNICEF report to comprehensively outline the dire and growing consequences for children as the pandemic drags on. It…, learn, , including by closing the digital divide. Guarantee access to, nutrition, and, health services, and make, vaccines, affordable and available to every child. Support and protect the mental health of children and young people and bring an end to abuse, gender-based violence and neglect in childhood. Increase access to, safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, and address, environmental degradation and climate change., Reverse the rise in, child poverty, and ensure an inclusive recovery for all. Redouble efforts to protect and support children and their families living through, conflict, disaster and displacement., “This World Children’s Day, we are asking governments, partners and the private sector to listen to children and prioritize their needs,” Fore said. “As we all reimagine the future and look ahead toward a post-pandemic world, children must come first.”, In Nepal,, to mark World Children’s Day on 20 November, and highlight the issues around children’s and young people’s wellbeing, UNICEF Nepal will host a virtual children’s parliamentary session and a virtual festival of visions and voices of young people. In addition, UNICEF Nepal is launching a mental health campaign ‘Ma Chhu Ni’ to help to build an allyship among young people.         Of particular…, report will go live at 00.01 GMT 19 November here: https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/six-point-plan-protect-children For the UNICEF survey on disruptions to child services due to COVID-19 across 148 countries from 17 August to 17 September, click here . The data used for the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among children and adolescents under…

UNICEF started the child center disaster risk reduction (CCDRR) programme with a generous funding support of the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation in Nepal in 2013. Initially, the programme was implemented in four districts: Accham, Dhanusha, Parsa and Saptari, which was expanded to four new districts in 2016, namely: Baitadi, Bajura, Dhading and…

UNICEF Nepal has been implementing the child centered disaster risk reduction (CCDRR) programme, generously funded by the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation, in selected districts in Nepal since 2013. Many lessons and good practices have emerged while working with children on DRR over the past six years. The compendium presents the real-life…

Saptari, Nepal:, Following two days of near-constant rainfall in this part of Saptari District in Nepal’s south, the River Khando was swollen, its waters flowing strong. Mohammad Salim was watching the river from the porch of his house on the banks in the Rupani Rural Municipality that morning in September, and knew it was just a matter of time until the early…

Sindhupalchowk, Nepal –, Janak Giri, head teacher at the Mahakali Seti Devi School in Sindhupalchowk District in central Nepal, was pleasantly surprised. He hadn’t expected that his students would be so interested in talking about disasters affecting them and the school. “We had never before conducted a specific training on the subject in the school, or even in the…

Saptari, Nepal: Nisha Timsina from Kanchanrup Municipality in Saptari District recalls a time when she felt extremely helpless. “I often heard about incidents of violence and sexual abuse of children, mainly girls,” she says. “Even though these reports shook me, I didn’t think there was anything I could do.” In 2013, however, Nisha heard about a…

NEW YORK, 18 November 2019 –, There have been historic gains overall for the world’s children since the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted 30 years ago. However, many of the poorest children are yet to feel the impact, according to The Convention on the Rights of the Child at a Crossroads , a new report released today. Part of commemorations marking the 30 th…, Poverty, discrimination and marginalization continue to leave millions of the most disadvantaged children at risk:, Armed conflicts, rising xenophobia and the global migration and refugee crisis all have a devastating impact on global progress., Children are physically, physiologically and epidemiologically most at risk of the impacts of the climate crisis:, Rapid changes in climate are spreading disease, increasing the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, and creating food and water insecurity. Unless urgent action is taken, the worst for many children is yet to come., Although more children are immunized than ever before, a slowdown in immunisation coverage rates over the past decade is threatening to reverse hard-won gain in children’s health:, Measles vaccination coverage has stagnated since 2010, contributing to a resurgence of the deadly disease in many countries. Almost 350,000 cases of measles were recorded in 2018, more than double the total in 2017., The number of out-of-school children has stagnated and learning outcomes for those in school remain poor:, Globally, the number children who are not in primary level has remained static since 2007. Many of those who are in school are not learning the basics, let alone the skills they need to thrive in today’s economy. To accelerate progress in advancing child rights, and to address stagnation and backsliding in some of these rights, the report calls…

In November 2019, the world marks the 30th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly adopting the Convention on the Rights of the Child. To commemorate this occasion, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore has written  this open letter  to the world’s children. The letter describes the enormous progress that the international…

KATHMANDU, 6 September 2019, – Yesterday, the Honorable Minister of Federal Affairs and General Administration Mr Lal Babu Pandit, declared the Kanchanrup Municipality as the first child-friendly municipality in Province 2, and the third child-friendly municipality in Nepal after federalism. A child-friendly municipality embodies the spirit of the Convention on the Rights of…