Tagged: Latin America and Caribbean Region

A plastic covered shack on a beach next to three palm trees.

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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Latin America’s 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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Some key lessons for equity in public spending from Mexico

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Mexico’s experience in public investment in children is very interesting and highly valued by other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The efforts to identify and estimate the resources designated to children in the country’s federal budget are impressive, as they use a rigorous methodology of calculation that has been… Read more →←
Students at the Michel J. Hasbun Center for Basic Education in Cedeño, Honduras.

In Honduras, building the resilience of children who live along the beach

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“In 2011 a tidal wave completely destroyed my house. It was a day I still remember. The sea flooded hundreds of meters inland and my family and I only had time to find safety while carrying our basic necessities.” The narrator of this story is Yaki Martins, a 14-year-old girl from Cedeño, a community located on the Gulf of… Read more →←

Ending cholera in Haiti – a work in progress

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Since 1 January 2015 it is estimated that cholera has killed 185 people in Haiti* – children, women and men whose deaths could have been avoided. Close to 9,000 children, women and men have died since the epidemic began in October 2010. The structural causes of their death are the same as those that allowed Ebola to kill 10,200… Read more →←

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