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Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on the disruption of immunization and basic health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic
NEW YORK, 26 March 2020: “Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is overstretching health services as health workers are diverted to support the response. “Physical distancing is leading parents to make the difficult decision to defer routine immunization. “Medical goods are in short supply and supply chains are under historic strain due to…
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SAP and UNICEF partner to give young people job skills training
NEW YORK, 25 September 2019 – SAP and UNICEF today announced a new global partnership to provide quality education, life skills and job skills training to young people in disadvantaged communities, preparing them for decent work and active citizenship. Announced at an event taking place at the 74 th session of the...
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More women and children survive today than ever before – UN report
NEW YORK/ GENEVA, 19 September 2019: More women and their children are surviving today than ever before, according to new child and maternal mortality estimates released today by United Nations groups* led by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO). Since 2000, child deaths have reduced by nearly half and m...
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A World Ready To Learn - Global Report 2019
A young child’s brain is full of innate potential, and the early years offer an irreplaceable window of opportunity to set a path towards success in primary school and later in life. Quality early childhood education generates a positive sequence of learning – while lack of access to pre-primary education widens achievement gaps and restricts opportunities. Children who fall behind at a young age often never catch up with their peers, perpetuatin...
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Water under Fire - 2019
In times of crisis, children face many dangers: They are forced from home, separated from family, deprived of food, barred from school, and exposed to exploitation and violence. In crises involving armed conflict, children are threatened by injury and death. But bullets and bombs are not always the deadliest threats to a child’s life. In protracted conflicts, children younger than 15 are, on average, nearly three times more likely to die from dia...
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World has failed to protect children in conflict in 2018
NEW YORK, 28 December 2018 – The futures of millions of children living in countries affected by armed conflict are at risk, as warring parties continue to commit grave violations against children, and world leaders fail to hold perpetrators accountable – UNICEF said today. “Children living in conflict zones aroun...
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Millions of the world's poorest urban children are more likely to die young and less likely to complete primary school than their rural peers - UNICEF
New York, 27 November 2018 – The poorest urban children in 1 in 4 countries* are more likely to die before their fifth birthday than the poorest children in rural areas. And the poorest urban children in 1 in 6 countries are less likely to complete primary school than their counterparts in rural areas, according t...
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World leaders unite under new initiative to provide quality education and training for young people
Photo and b-roll content of participants at the launch event will be uploaded in real time here Generation Unlimited launch event will be live streamed here NEW YORK, 21 September 2018 –World leaders will launch a new partnership to get every young person into quality education, training or employment by 2030...
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11 FACTS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE (WASH) IN SCHOOLS
When children have access to safe water, toilets and soap for handwashing at school, they have a better environment to study, to learn, and to realise realize their full potential. When schools have safe water, toilets and soap for handwashing, children have a healthy learning environment, and girls are more like...
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"Stop attacks on children"
NEW YORK, 15 May 2018 – “From the Central African Republic to South Sudan, and from Syria to Afghanistan, attacks on children in conflict have continued unabated during the first four months of the year. "With little remorse and even less accountability, parties to conflict continue to blatantly disregard one ...
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World is failing newborn babies, says UNICEF
NEW YORK, 20 February 2018– Global deaths of newborn babies remain alarmingly high, particularly among the world’s poorest countries, UNICEF said today in a new report on newborn mortality. Babies born in Japan, Iceland and Singapore have the best chance at survival, while newborns in Pakistan, the Central Afric...
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Children increasingly targeted in Central African Republic violence
BANGUI/DAKAR/NEW YORK/GENEVA, 18 July 2017– Months of renewed fighting in the Central African Republic (CAR) have led to an increasing number of violent acts committed against children, including murders, abductions, rape and recruitment into armed groups – UNICEF warned today. The UN children’s agency said that the true number of atrocities…