For the first time in 20 years, UNICEF’s flagship report examines the issue of children, food and nutrition, providing a fresh perspective on a rapidly evolving challenge. This 2019 edition of The State of the World’s Children  (SOWC) examines the issue of children, food and nutrition, providing a fresh perspective on a rapidly evolving challenge…, T H E S T A T E O F T H E W O R L D ' S C H I L D R E N 2 0 1 9 Growing well in a changing world Children, food and nutrition ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This report is the result of collaboration among many individuals and institutions. The report team thanks all who gave so willingly of their time, expertise and energy, in particular: SENIOR ADVISORY GROUP…

PANAMA, October 11- One in four young women in Latin America and the Caribbean was married for the first time or found themselves in an early union before they turned 18.  This rate has stayed the same for the past 25 years. If the observed trend continues, the region will have one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world by 2030, only…

AMMAN/GENEVA/NEW YORK, 11 October 2019 - As violence escalates in northeast Syria, many children are at imminent risk of injury, death and displacement. UNICEF urges all parties to protect children and civilian infrastructure on which they depend, in accordance with international human rights and humanitarian law. As the situation continues to…

KHARTOUM, 11 October 2019 - “Sudan has launched an oral cholera vaccination campaign in response to the ongoing outbreak of cholera. "More than 1.6 million people aged one year and above in the Blue Nile and Sinnar states will be vaccinated over the coming five days. “The announcement of the Federal Ministry of Health in Sudan on the cholera…

This is a summary of what was said by Meritxell Relaño, UNICEF Deputy Director of Emergency Operations – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, following an inter-agency mission to Burkina Faso on 1-4 October. GENEVA, 11 October 2019 – " Burkina Faso is witnessing a dramatic…

Tokyo/New York, 11 October – Clé de Peau Beauté, the luxury skincare and makeup brand of Tokyo-based Shiseido Company Limited, has today, on International Day of the Girl, pledged the world’s largest contribution of US$8.7 million to support UNICEF’s Gender Equality Program. Worldwide, 1 in 4 adolescent girls aged 15-19 is not in employment,…

PARAKOU, Benin/NEW YORK, 10 October – More than 67,000 girls between the ages of 6 and 17 years old from across Benin have this week received new shoes as part of a partnership with Batonga Foundation, TOMS and UNICEF. Founder of Batonga Foundation and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo has concluded a visit to her native Benin where she…

NIAMEY, Niger – Two beds, a fan, an old television set, a refrigerator. Everything 13-year-old Pascaline’s family owns is squeezed into a space smaller than some people's closet. The walls of the single-room house, which Pascaline shares with her parents, are built with adobe – sun-dried bricks made of clay and straw. The tin roof on their home…

NEW YORK, 9 OCTOBER 2019 – “UNICEF is greatly concerned by the latest developments in northeast Syria. I urge all parties to protect children and the civilian infrastructure on which they depend, in accordance with international human rights and humanitarian law. The use of explosive weapons in populated areas causes unacceptable harm to children…

KINSHASA/DAKAR/GENEVA/NEW YORK, 9 October 2019 - UNICEF is vaccinating thousands more children against measles and rushing life-saving medicines to health centers across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as deaths from the world’s largest measles outbreak top 4,000. Since January, 203,179 cases of measles have been reported in all 26…