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Girls dance on a balcony in Lunik IX, a cluster of run-down buildings on the outskirts of Kosice, Slovakia's second largest city. Once a racially mixed neighbourhood, Lunik IX has become an urban ghetto for around 4500 impoverished Roma people.
EU youth: not in employment, education or training

EU youth: not in employment, education or training

Data and research Experts speak

By Yekaterina Chzhen

7.5 million young people aged 15-24 — roughly the total population of Switzerland — were not in employment, education or training (referred to as ‘NEET’) across the European Union in 2013. In Greece alone it was one in five, nearly a quarter of a million young people. The UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti will later… Read more →←
A teacher in Ethiopia conducts her class outside due to a lack of classrooms.
Day of the African Child: improving education with data

Day of the African Child: improving education with data

Data and research Experts speak Impact

By Jo Bourne

Numbers, facts and figures can be daunting. Discuss too much data and people’s eyes are sure to glaze over. But let me assure you, data can make all the difference. The Out-of-School Children Initiative is an example of how UNICEF and its partners use numbers, facts and figures to change children’s lives. On the Day of the African… Read more →←
A health worker prepares to vaccinate a pregnant woman against tetanus in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Saving moms and babies – UNICEF and Pampers P&G partnership delivers

Saving moms and babies – UNICEF and Pampers P&G partnership delivers

Data and research Impact

By Gérard Bocquenet

Virtually unknown in high income countries, tetanus is a disease related to poverty and inequity. Despite being entirely preventable, neonatal tetanus – a swift and painful killer – remains a burden in 25 countries where vaccination fails to reach all mothers-to-be, and where women deliver and care for their newborns in unhygienic… Read more →←
DRC: 30% fewer children below 5 are dying

DRC: 30% fewer children below 5 are dying

Data and research Impact

By Barbara Bentein

We have been impatiently awaiting the preliminary report of the second Demographic and Health Survey (DHS II) 2013/2014 which has finally been published, and contains news which surpasses all our expectations. The very good news is that the under-five mortality rate has fallen from 148 per 1000 live births in 2007 to 104 per 1000 live… Read more →←
Photo of the Week: saving newborns and mothers

Photo of the Week: saving newborns and mothers

Data and research Impact Insider

By Christine Nesbitt

A woman is seen cradling her infant in this photograph taken in 2014 by photographer Kate Holt at the Mwembeladu Maternity Home in Zanzibar in the United Republic of Tanzania. She is using ‘kangaroo care’, where mothers with no access to incubators hold their preterm babies constantly against their skin to keep them warm. Millions of… Read more →←
Children pointing up at the sky
Drones to the rescue

Drones to the rescue

Data and research

By Malli Kamimura

Innovation has become a major priority for UNICEF A big part of our work in innovation means exploring new ideas and technology – even some technology that can be seemingly controversial. In mid-March, UNICEF video producer Nerina Penzhorn and I visited Pia Zaragoza, a graduate student at New York University’s Interactive… Read more →←
Marc Tamara, French teacher at the Etat des Rapides High School in Guango after it was looted.
Answering big questions about schools in CAR

Answering big questions about schools in CAR

Data and research Impact

By Madeleine Logan

Four months after the new school year was meant to start in Central African Republic in October, we knew very little about what was happening in classrooms throughout the country. Since December 2012, the ongoing ethnic and religious fighting has decimated the school system.  The chain of reporting between principals, school inspectors… Read more →←
A small boy getting vaccinated in Bangui, Central African Republic.
A new gap in immunization is emerging

A new gap in immunization is emerging

Data and research Impact

By Shanelle Hall

Pneumonia and diarrhoea are the two greatest causes of death in children younger than 5 years of age. In 2010 and 2011, children in lower-income countries started to receive vaccines to protect them against these two diseases. Meanwhile, children living in industrialized economies had started receiving these vaccines some eight years… Read more →←

One billion people still can’t take poo to the loo

Data and research Impact

By Robert Bain

One in seven people still practice open defecation – shockingly the vast majority live in middle-income countries, in other words countries which have the resources to address the problem. This is especially the case for India, home to almost 600 million people with no sanitation facility whatsoever and the target of a recent… Read more →←
Photo of the week: malnutrition on the rise

Photo of the week: malnutrition on the rise

Data and research

By Christine Nesbitt

The conflict in Central African Republic is limiting access of women and children to health and other services. Many children are affected by deteriorating living conditions, like this young girl seen undergoing nutrition screening in this week’s Photo of the Week by photographer Roger Lemoyne. The yellow on the armband indicates that… Read more →←
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