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Author: Dale Rutstein

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Can data help end corporal punishment?

Can data help end corporal punishment?

Big picture

By Dale Rutstein

As a UNICEF communicator I’d bet that the widespread acceptance of corporal punishment – spanking, slapping, hitting, etc., a practice that seems to cross all boundaries – is one of the toughest challenges we face. Indeed, despite near universal ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, only 8% of the world’s… Read more →←
A boy from the indigenous Kadazandusun ethnic group in Malaysia attends a preschoool class.
Best of UNICEF Research 2015

Best of UNICEF Research 2015

Data and research

By Dale Rutstein

The Office of Research – Innocenti has just released the third edition of its annual publication Best of UNICEF Research 2015. With each edition we learn more about a key element in a global development organization’s effort to gather evidence. Over the course of its existence Best of UNICEF Research has grown in terms of the quality… Read more →←

25 years of child rights research: Ospedale degli Innocenti

Insider

By Dale Rutstein

UNICEF is well known for its role in responding to complex humanitarian crises affecting children around the world. The work of the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti, based at the 600-year-old Ospedale degli Innocenti, in Florence, Italy rarely hits world headlines. Yet over the quarter century of its existence UNICEF at Innocenti… Read more →←
Fatema,15, sits on the bed at her home in Khulna, Bangladesh.
Are we failing adolescents?

Are we failing adolescents?

Experts speak

By Dale Rutstein

Almost half of all women in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are married before eighteen. Globally, adolescents are two times more likely to be out of school than primary school aged children. Nearly eight million 15-24-year-olds in Europe are not in education, employment or training. Is it time to ask the question: “Are we failing… Read more →←
Multidimensional Child Poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

Multidimensional Child Poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

Experts speak

By Dale Rutstein

A new working paper called ‘Analysing child poverty and deprivation in sub-Saharan Africa’ has been published by the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti. The paper uses a framework called ‘MODA’ designed to measure multidimensional poverty specifically for children within and across countries. We caught up… Read more →←
Best of UNICEF Research 2014

Best of UNICEF Research 2014

Experts speak

By Dale Rutstein

UNICEF staff are so preoccupied with the increasingly complex task of assisting the most vulnerable children that they don’t often realize the extent and quality of research their offices and programmes throughout the world carry out. UNICEF is actually a major global research organization with hundreds of research projects carried out… Read more →←
In Italy, Walid (14) stands outside the Alkadia youth centre, in Turin. The centre provides youths, most of whom are from disadvantaged families, with recreational and cultural activities, as well as help with schoolwork.
Children of the Recession – The “Great Leap Backward”

Children of the Recession – The “Great Leap Backward”

Insider

By Dale Rutstein

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Just over six years since the sudden collapse of Lehman Brothers, the global economic crisis still makes news throughout the world. The impact on households goes beyond headlines. Hardly any family has not felt the pain of the Great Recession. Children of course experience it most acutely. They are also at greatest risk of suffering… Read more →←
A child formerly associated with armed forces or groups in Central African Republic holds her mother's hand.
#BringBackOurGirls: time to address drivers of violence

#BringBackOurGirls: time to address drivers of violence

Impact

By Dale Rutstein

The abduction of more than 200 high school girls in northern Nigeria has touched a global nerve. The twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls has generated millions of posts. UNICEF and other agencies have issued special statements. Superpowers are offering to send in military aid. It’s not the first time a horrendous act of violence… Read more →←
In Zambia's Southern Province health worker volunteers are trained to use SMS technology known as Remind MI (Remind Mother and Infant) in delivering results and reminders to clients of the rural health centre.
ICT4D: a coming of age

ICT4D: a coming of age

Data and research Impact

By Dale Rutstein

C4D, S4D and now ICT4D. The latest “4D” could represent one of the most important social and economic development trends in years. Communication technologies have long been seen as development “silver bullets.” First radio was going to boost productivity for rural farmers, then TV sets were supposed to replace teachers in remote… Read more →←
Breastfeeding: Trending online in China

Breastfeeding: Trending online in China

Impact Insider

By Dale Rutstein

In 2008 the melamine scandal erupted in China. The industrial chemical was discovered throughout the milk supply, killing at least 4 babies and hospitalizing more than 50,000. Chinese parents were faced with a life and death infant feeding decision. With a low breastfeeding rate and one of the fastest growing formula markets on earth,… Read more →←
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