BANGUI/DAKAR/NEW YORK, 6 February 2020 – “One year since a peace agreement was signed between the Central African Government and other parties to the conflict, the lives of millions of children across the country continue to be threatened by violence and a lack of access to food, health care, education, water and sanitation. “More than 500 grave…

London, 5 February 2020 – Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance will help vaccinate up to 45 million children in seven developing countries over the next six months in a series of major vaccination campaigns to help halt a recent surge in global measles cases. The campaigns will be carried out by governments with funding from Gavi and support from Vaccine…

Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, and Vietnam participate in SEA-PLM, which measures learning among grade 5 students. It covers reading, writing, math and global citizenship skills, allowing countries to track progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 4. Download file (PDF, 508,64 KB)

DAKAR, 3 February 2020 - The number of people facing a critical lack of food and vital livelihood opportunities in the Central Sahel has spiked in one year due to rising insecurity and climatic shocks. The situation may further deteriorate unless the international community acts now, three United Nations agencies warned today. Despite an overall…

MATAMOROS, MEXICO, 31 January 2020 – An estimated 2,200 migrants and asylum seekers, including 700 children, are effectively stranded in the Mexican border city of Matamoros as they wait for their asylum cases to work their way through the U.S. court system. Conditions for children and families on the ground, many of whom have been waiting at the…

UNICEF calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities to protect children and deliver unimpeded humanitarian assistance   , NEW YORK, 1 February 2020 – “The crisis in northwest Syria is turning into a child protection crisis of unprecedented scale. Violence over the past week has forced 6,500 children to flee every day, bringing the total number of displaced children in the area to more than 300,000 since early December. “UNICEF estimates that 1.2 million children are…

Intro, Years of conflict and blockade have taken a heavy toll on the youth and children of Gaza, where regular outbreaks of violence and deteriorating living conditions have left a generation in desperate need of psychosocial support and education. The growing needs in Gaza have overwhelmed the capacities of health and child protection service providers…

The number of deaths among children under the age of 5 has decreased by half since 1990. In 2018, an estimated 802,000 children under-five died of pneumonia. Of those, 153,000 (19 per cent) died within their first month of life. This brief report – published jointly by UNICEF, Save the Children, and Every Breath Counts – presents the causes of…, EVERY CHILD’S RIGHT TO SURVIVE: AN AGENDA TO END PNEUMONIA DEATHS The number of deaths among children under the age of five has reduced by half since 1990. Yet over 5 million children are still dying every year from mostly preventable causes. Pneumonia is responsible for nearly 20% of these deaths and is the leading infectious cause of death in…

Every year, pneumonia claims the lives of more than 800,000 children under the age of five worldwide. In Nigeria, the disease was responsible for an estimated 162,000 child deaths in 2018 alone – the highest number in the world. Pneumonia is easily preventable with access to vaccines, and readily treatable with low-cost antibiotics. Strong primary…

BARCELONA, Spain, 29 January 2020 - "Thirty-nine seconds. "Every 39 seconds, a child dies from pneumonia. "Out of every five child deaths, pneumonia causes one. "That’s more than malaria, HIV, measles and tetanus combined. "Last year alone, pneumonia claimed the lives of more than 800,000 children under the age of five years. "Of these, an…