If UNICEF were a rich country instead of my employer, it would rank 24th out of 41 EU and OECD countries in the league table of our new report “Are the world’s richest countries family friendly?” on the indicator of full-rate equivalent childcare leave available to female staff (see figure below, which shows where UNICEF would… Read more →←
As access to education increases around the world, so does the concern about schools providing the necessary support to children with disabilities. Oftentimes unaccommodating environments for students with functional difficulties prevent them from making the most of their educations. A new questionnaire — the Child… Read more →←
Over the past decade there has been escalating concern that the time children spend using digital technology might be harmful. Calls have been made to protect children by restricting the amount of time they spend in front of digital screens. But recently there has been a change in tune, following research showing that the effects of… Read more →←
Getting the ‘development’ right in sport for development (S4D) means that on the pitch, disabilities are dissolved into strengths. It means that traditional ‘no girls allowed’ attitudes are torn away. It means that children’s voices are valued in both the planning and the playing, and real efforts are made to protect children… Read more →←
It is a known fact that in nearly every country, children are more likely to live in (monetary) poverty than adults (19% versus 9% respectively in 2018). This has immediate effects on the well-being of children, their development prospects and consequently their adult life. Cash transfer programs targeted at the poorest households have… Read more →←
If a child attends school every day, can we assume that he or she is learning? An increasing number of children around the world have gained access to education, particularly in low-income countries but until recently, we haven’t known if more children are learning as a result. Data on how many children are learning is either… Read more →←
On March 12th 2019, UNICEF will co-host a side event to the sixty-third Commission on the Status of Women, together with the UK’s Department for International Development and GAGE Consortium managed by ODI, to share evidence and policy approaches to strengthen gender equality outcomes of social protection programmes, with a particular… Read more →←
Sugarmaa Batjargal was born on a cold February day in Mongolia’s Alag-Erdene area, where the temperatures won’t rise above the freezing point for another few months. She looks like her mother, Delgermurun. The family of seven – now including five children – lives in a ger, the nomadic tent structures of the Mongolian… Read more →←
The lights dimmed and the theatre hushed. Spotlights swirled in the dark from one person popping up out of the darkness to the next as a late-night emergency meeting of refugees unfolded in front of us. I was at the Playhouse Theatre in London and then I was transported somewhere else. Set in a reimagined version of the ‘Afghan… Read more →←
This past weekend, UNICEF called on leaders at the African Union Summit to work together to respond to the needs of uprooted children across the continent and to address the negative drivers of irregular migration – among these are conflict, violence and persecution. African governments were urged to take action against these root… Read more →←