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Social Policy
The challenge, Children who grow up in poverty might lack adequate access to food, sanitation, shelter, protection, health services and the education they need to survive and thrive. When children grow up in poverty, they are more likely to be poor when they are older, perpetuating a cycle of poverty and disadvant...
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Child poverty across eastern Europe and Central Asia soars by 19 per cent, as Ukraine war and rising inflation drive four million children into poverty - UNICEF
GENEVA/NEW YORK, 17 October 2022 , – The war in Ukraine and rising inflation have driven an additional four million children across eastern Europe and Central Asia into poverty, a 19 per cent increase since 2021, according to a new UNICEF study published today. The impact of the war in Ukraine and subsequent econo...
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Universal child benefits critical in reducing poverty, new ODI and UNICEF report finds
NEW YORK, 17 June 2020 –, Universal child benefits, such as unconditional cash payments or tax transfers, are critical in the fight against child poverty, yet are only available in 1 in 10 countries worldwide, according to a new report published today by the Overseas Development Institute and UNICEF. The report...
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COVID-19: Number of children living in household poverty to soar by up to 86 million by end of year
NEW YORK, 28 May 2020 –, The economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic could push up to 86 million more children into household poverty by the end of 2020, an increase of 15 per cent, according to a new analysis released today by Save the Children and UNICEF. The analysis highlights that, without urgent action ...
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Children in monetary poor households and COVID-19
This technical note provides the analysis process used by Save the Children and UNICEF to calculate the number of additional children that could be pushed into household poverty by the end of the year due to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Press release
Debt relief for the poorest countries critical in fight against COVID-19
NEW YORK, 7 April 2020 –, “COVID-19 is generating an unprecedented global economic crisis. And as we witness in all such crises, this economic destruction is cruelly and unequally distributed. “For the world’s poorest countries, the financial fallout caused by the pandemic, combined with debilitating debt-service ...
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Report on the Role of Social Work in Juvenile Justice
With a special focus on the CEE/CIS region, this guidebook provides a brief insight on the key roles of social work and social workers within the different levels of the juvenile justice system such as detention, trial, probation and diversion.