Tagged: poverty

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Burundi’s children: Optimism despite continued violence

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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

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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 →←
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Not everyone is equally extremely poor

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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 →←

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

Experts speak

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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 →←
Sanjana, a child participant, asks questions during the Children's Dialogue (Projonmo Sanglap) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which took place in February.

Post-2015: the power of voice, inclusion and participation

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Nearly anywhere you turn on the news lately, you will see headlines about inequality. However, perhaps inevitably, these issues are oversimplified in the headlines. The rich vs. poor, the 99% vs. the 1%, Wall Street vs. Main Street, etc. etc. If it was only about money—the ability to buy more cars, or more houses or more designer… Read more →←
There is global consensus that poverty is not just about income - it is about the wellbeing of people.

The global agenda must prioritise child poverty

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Children bear the brunt of extreme poverty. This is not hyperbole; it’s statistical fact. The World Bank’s most recent poverty data show us that almost half of all the people living on less than $1.25 day, are 18 or younger. Yet, children under 18 represent only about 31% of the global population. And around 400 million children in… Read more →←

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