Tagged: Latin America and Caribbean Region

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Migrant children using technology in Central America

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Daniel tried to migrate to the United States to reunite with his parents. He didn’t succeed. UNICEF staff talked with him in El Salvador to understand how technology affects the migration process and to seek solutions. Daniel (not his real name) doesn’t stop looking at his cell phone. Sometimes he dives into WhatsApp. Other times, he… Read more →←
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“Your baby is a badly-cooked potato”

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Sometimes someone says something and it hits with such impact that hours, days, years later the phrase still swirls around in your head. “The doctors told us we shouldn’t get too attached to our baby. They said he was essentially a potato – a potato that had been badly cooked. Imagine a defect at the factory, your baby is a… Read more →←
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No calm after the storm for the Caribbean’s poorest children

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In Grand Turk Island, the capital island of the Turks and Caicos, 14-year-old Danessa Estime writes rap lyrics in her notebook about the night Hurricane Irma battered the island: “Wake up, wake up! But 5:32? Why the hell am I waking up at 5:32? Ma, what’s going on? What do you want me to do? Did something happen to be up at 5:32? She… Read more →←
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Hurricane Irma: UNICEF Haiti deploys at the frontline

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I am waking up to battering rain. Irma is coming closer. Packing winds of 185mph, Irma is the most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record. Exceeding current storm category measures (above 5), Irma is far stronger than Hurricane Matthew, a category 4 hurricane that brought devastation to Haiti just one year ago. Irma is barreling across… Read more →←
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Hurricane Irma: U-Report works to protect children  

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The sun never sets on UNICEF – and when children are in danger, the global community leaps into action to protect them. Saturday night Panama. Sunday morning Bangkok. Middle of the night in France. What do they have to do with a hurricane forming in the Caribbean? It means using every available UNICEF channel to get life-saving ‘be… Read more →←
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Overcome inequality by ending child poverty

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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 →←
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A new way to measure government investment in early childhood

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It is often said that the real commitment of a government to any issue can be measured by the money it spends. But measuring government investment is not always easy, especially when it is an issue as complex as early childhood development. Over the past decades in Latin America, early childhood has received increased government… Read more →←

What you need to know about the Zika virus

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The Zika virus is spreading far and fast – and it’s now a public health emergency in many parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. There is no vaccine for the disease. Here’s what you need to know. How do people catch the Zika virus? Zika virus is spread to people through the bite of an infected Aedes mosquito and can also be… Read more →←

UNICEF reps in Latin America and the Caribbean answer questions at the first #UNICEFLACathon

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Update 20 November: read the comments and questions from the #UNICEFLACathon here:   Isabel Crowley (Mexico) Nadine Perrault (El Salvador) Gordon Jonathan Lewis (Costa Rica) Mark Connolly (Jamaica) Maria Luisa Fornara (Peru) Gary Stahl (Brazil) Latin America and the Caribbean is the most unequal region in the world. Factors like being… Read more →←

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