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A mother and her baby in Arusha, Tanzania.
Protecting pregnant women from malaria – a missed “quick win”

Protecting pregnant women from malaria – a missed “quick win”

Experts speak

By Valentina Buj

In the eight years since we commemorated the first World Malaria Day, millions of women and children have continued to die from a disease that is both preventable and treatable. Malaria takes the lives of more than 1,200 children under the age of 5 every day – the staggering equivalent of 50 children every hour. I started to focus on… 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 →←
A woman from Madhya Pradesh, India, holds her three-day-old child. Despite being one of the most mineral rich states in India, Madhya Pradesh is one of the poorest with 40% of its population living in poverty
Child poverty indicators can help end global poverty

Child poverty indicators can help end global poverty

Experts speak

By Antonio Franco Garcia

Eradicating child poverty is one the world’s most important and urgent tasks. Whilst substantial progress has been made in reducing poverty globally, disaggregated data shows that many children are being left behind. The latest disaggregated monetary poverty figures show that children represent nearly half of the world’s extreme poor… Read more →←
China: a mother carries her daughter.
Supporting families and parents in a rapidly changing world

Supporting families and parents in a rapidly changing world

Experts speak

By UNICEF Connect

In China about 100 million children have parents who migrate away from home in search of employment. Some of these children accompany their parents, usually from a rural village to a strange new urban world. Most of these children – about 60 million of them – remain at home, supported and cared for by grandparents, neighbours or… Read more →←
Neena (5) surveys the wreckage of her home, which was destroyed by the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
What’s at stake for children at Sendai?

What’s at stake for children at Sendai?

Experts speak Insider

By Antony Spalton

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By the end of the 1990s, climate-change related disasters affected about 66 million children per year. In the coming decades, this number is expected to triple, to 200 million children annually. Sadly we can expect to see more child deaths caused by disasters. More children will face great physical and psychological peril. More will not… Read more →←
Children attend French class at a school in Ghana.
Evidence from Africa: Cash transfers increase school enrollment

Evidence from Africa: Cash transfers increase school enrollment

Experts speak

By Tia Palermo

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An estimated 63 million adolescents between the ages of 12 and 15 are currently out of school, according to a recent report by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and UNICEF. This is a staggering number, and the barriers to school enrolment–poverty, conflict, gender discrimination, and child labour–are not easy to overcome.… Read more →←
Children practice dancing with recitations in Bangladesh. ©UNICEF/BANA2014-01664/Mawa Children practice dancing with recitations in Bangladesh.
Invest in children’s futures; in Early Childhood Development

Invest in children’s futures; in Early Childhood Development

Experts speak Impact

By Pia Rebello Britto

Investment and Early Childhood Development (ECD) are both about the future. Investment is about transferring today’s purchasing power to the future, with an expectation for positive returns. ECD is about the foundation for individual and societal progress that has an economic and social payback for all. Both need vision and forward… Read more →←
Children in Mali eat the midday meal offered at their school.
Preparing to tackle child poverty globally: three goals for 2015

Preparing to tackle child poverty globally: three goals for 2015

Experts speak

By David Stewart

In an earlier post, I discussed the renewed emphasis on child poverty in the new development goals over the past year, and why this was a crucial development for children and societies. The year ahead will be equally important as Member States finalise the new global agenda, including the measurable indicators to track progress, and… Read more →←

What’s relevant for the well-being of children in 2015?

Experts speak

By Eva Kaplan, Katell Le Goulven, Nima Hassan Kanyare, Ya Qing

2015 could be billed “The End of Predictability”. From a return to volatility in financial markets to rising geopolitical risks to (even more) impacts from climate change to vulnerability to disease outbreak, perhaps the Economist’s Editor in Chief John Micklethwait says it best: “Just now the world seems uncommonly hard to… 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 →←
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