The Sustainable Development Goals highlight the critical importance of pre-primary education and set the broad ambition that by 2030 all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education. Today, the world is facing a learning crisis: While millions of…, 1 BUILD TO LAST A framework in support of universal quality pre-primary education BUILD TO LAST: A framework in support of universal quality pre-primary education2 Build to last A framework in support of universal quality pre-primary education22 Published by UNICEF Education Section, Programme Division 3 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA © United…

KINSHASA/GENEVA/NEW YORK, 31 March 2020 - The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s battered healthcare system needs urgent support as it struggles with measles and cholera epidemics that kill thousands of children, as well as the mounting threat from the coronavirus, COVID-19, says UNICEF. In a report released today*, the UN children’s agency…

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The rapid expansion of digital technology and increased access to the Internet has transformed children and young people’s lives worldwide. From poor urban areas in East Africa, to rural communities in South America, and to isolated islands in the Pacific, children in some of the world’s most disadvantaged and inaccessible communities now have…

The Child Online Protection (COP) Initiative is a multi-stakeholder network launched by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to promote awareness of child safety in the online world and to develop practical tools to assist governments, industry and educators. As part of the initiative, in 2009, ITU published a set of COP Guidelines for…

The majority of teen respondents think that children and adolescents are in danger of being sexually abused or taken advantage of online. Respondents from Latin America and the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa express the most concern, with two-thirds of adolescents in countries from each region strongly believing that young people are in danger…

The main objective of this desk study is to examine the causes and consequences, scale, nature and manifestations of VAC in education settings in South Asia, as well as to review regional and country-specific policy and programme responses. It is hoped that the findings of the review will contribute in broadening the knowledge base of all…

Bullying is far too often seen as an inevitable part of youth culture. But the consequences of bullying can be serious and may reverberate throughout the lifespan—affecting not only children who are bullied and children who bully, but also their families and friends. Public health and safety professionals can and should play a major role in…

Giunto poche ore fa a Roma il primo carico di mascherine, tute protettive e altri aiuti UNICEF a sostegno delle strutture sanitarie italiane: https://t.co/F89Jc0SGNk Insieme, per sconfiggere il #coronavirus . Donazioni: https://t.co/erlb0NpW6N pic.twitter.com/r1kgnBWUZK — UNICEF Italia (@UNICEF_Italia) March 30, 2020   ROME, March 30 2020 – A…

As reports have proliferated on widespread violence experienced by girls and boys in and around schools across the globe, school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) has become a major concern for policymakers, education practitioners and researchers. At an international level, addressing violence against children and gender violence have gained…