Tagged: child poverty

Children peeking into a room through an open window

How committed are countries to ending child poverty?

Experts speak

By ,

Today, over 700 million people struggle to survive on less than $1.90 a day. If you take a broader definition of poverty that goes beyond income, the number almost doubles, with more than 1.3 billion people living in multidimensional poverty globally. The tragic truth is that half of these people are children. Children are twice as… Read more →←
Two girls standing with their arms around each other, smiling at the camera; another girl, blurry, in the background

Overcome inequality by ending child poverty

Big picture

By

Story also available in: Español
For the past 20 years, economic, social and cultural progress in Latin America and the Caribbean has had a positive impact on children’s well-being, creating better institutional conditions and making it possible for children and adolescents to enjoy their rights. The region reduced mortality among children under 5 by 67 per cent… Read more →←

Katy Perry in Vietnam

Impact

By

Last month, I traveled nearly 8,000 miles to Ninh Thuan Province, a rural region in Vietnam’s south central coast, and one of the most disadvantaged areas in the country. The stunning coastline of Ninh Thuan Province is a stark contrast to the barren, hard-to-reach hillsides and dilapidated wooden homes inland, where most people live,… Read more →←
A group of kids standing on risers.

Burundi’s children: Optimism despite continued violence

Impact

By

Story also available in: Français 中文
For a long time, everything I knew about Burundi came in the form of headlines: missives from the New York Times and Guardian that spoke of political instability and coups, a press whose freedom was rapidly decreasing, rapes and mass graves, disease and hunger. When I came to support UNICEF Burundi for two weeks, my first visit to a… Read more →←

Peru shows the way in safeguarding public investment in children

Data and research

By ,

Story also available in: Español
Significant economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean helped bring tens of millions of people out of poverty over the past decade. In recent years, this economic growth has been decelerating overall, though unevenly, throughout the region. Forecasts by major financial institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund and… Read more →←

On World Children’s Day: #fightunfair

Big picture

By

Story also available in: Español Français
On 20 November, which is both Universal Children’s Day and the anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), UNICEF will launch the global #FightUnfair campaign to lead voices speaking out about the most egregious and unfair situations facing children today – and commit to doing something about… Read more →←
A hand shining a pair of shoes.

Not everyone is equally extremely poor

Big picture

By

Story also available in: العربية
We had just wrapped up a photoshoot for the ceremony introducing the injected polio vaccination into the routine vaccinations for the children in Guinea. Ebola was in major decline and the last contacts were just days away from passing their 21-day Ebola monitoring period. Schools were set to open in three days. After almost two years of… Read more →←

Filter results

Clear