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For every girl: Empowering adolescent girls is investing in a brighter future

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There are 600 million adolescent girls in the world, most of them living in the developing world. 600 million adolescent girls who each overflow with the potential to become an entrepreneur, a scientist, a visionary change-maker, or the leader of her country. But so many of these girls face daily, arduous barriers that prevent them from… Read more →←
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Remembering Hans Rosling: friend, teacher, inspiration

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Hans Rosling, who died last Tuesday, was my friend and mentor for 25 years. He was a man who cared about facts. He was passionate about statistics. He pioneered new ways of visualizing data, bringing dry figures to colourful life. But Hans’ primary mission was not about data, it was about people. Hans recognized that to do good, we… Read more →←
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Innovation in education: learning from experience

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Scaling up an innovation for maximum use and maximum benefit is never easy. The road to success is bumpy, and good ideas inevitably stumble into barriers – especially when the purpose of the innovation is to improve children’s learning experiences. But innovation that can be effective, scaled up and replicated is precisely what is… Read more →←
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Virtual Obama meets a young Iraqi entrepreneur

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In Harsham Camp on the outskirts of Erbil, there’s a window on the world — and it’s painted bright gold. The displacement camp is home to a Portal – a space where immersive audio visual technology allows people from all over the world to virtually meet and share ideas. When you step into a Portal, you feel as if you are in the… Read more →←
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Changing young Liberia through innovation

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I own two mobile phones, like almost every other Liberian I know. We keep a phone each for every mobile network, or pack two sim cards in phones that allow it, for making calls to people on different networks. Liberia has roughly 2,000,000 mobile network subscribers. Studies have shown that over 75 percent of youth have one or two mobile… Read more →←
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Equity = universal access to information

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Equity is an ideal that I love to pursue everyday through the work I am doing with UNICEF. You know the feeling. When you know there are situations where solutions exist, you can see it and you know that the opportunity is there to have an impact and make the world a better and fairer place for everyone. We’re living such a historic… Read more →←

World Prematurity Day: Saving “Every Newborn” born too soon

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In Bangladesh’s Tangail Medical College Hospital, Bithy Akhter anxiously waits as her daughter, Jannat, is treated at the Special Care Newborn Unit (SCANU). Jannat was delivered preterm at 33 weeks in a private clinic. After taking Jannant home, Bithy and her husband Amin Khan noticed she had started to look bluish and she wasn’t… Read more →←

Q&A with participants at the Global Innovations for Children and Youth Summit in Helsinki

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UNICEF kicked off the first Global Innovations for Children and Youth Summit, co-organized by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. An incredible mash-up of speakers and game-changers convened in Helsinki to unlock the way new technologies can drive change for the world’s most vulnerable children. To highlight the unique… Read more →←
Venus (8) washes her hands with soap and water at a new hand-washing facility at her school in the Philippines.

Water and sanitation – act now, use data, celebrate later

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In 2012, the UN made the announcement that the Millennium Development Goal target on water had been met and over two billion more people now had access to water from ‘improved’ sources. Many people thought: “Wonderful! The images of children and women carrying heavy water buckets on their heads for miles are now going to be a thing… Read more →←

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