UNICEF, WHO, World Bank global and regional child malnutrition estimates from 1990
to 2017 reveal that we are still far from a world without
malnutrition. The joint estimates, published in May 2017,...
On 25 Jan 2018 Globally, 165 million children under the age of 5 suffer from chronic malnutrition, or stunting, and more than half (85 million) of these children live in Asia. Increasing access to nutritious diets b...
On 12 Sep 2016 The ultimate goal of the resource manual is to ensure that all children
may equitably exercise their educational and environmental rights
in totality, as described in the Convention. The resource ma...
On 29 Aug 2016 This report builds and expands upon the analyses of Report Card No. 6 which considered relative income poverty affecting children and policies to mitigate it. This report provides a pioneering, compre...
On 30 Jun 2016 This report reads from UNICEF’s policy, programme and communication experience globally and in India, both at national and state levels, and builds on the work by the National Coalition for Sustainabl...
On 03 Jun 2016 This publication gathers a collection of twenty case studies that illustrate how Indian states are creating promising change to ensure the delivery of essential nutrition information, counselling, sup...
On 03 Jun 2016 UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2014-2017 is a road map for the realization of the rights of every child. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates...
On 31 May 2016 Governments in South Asia are progressively acknowledging that child stunting is both a marker and a maker of poor development. UNICEF regional and country offices in South Asia work with regional
bo...
On 24 May 2016 The report sheds light on the prevalence of different forms of violence against children, with global figures and data from 190 countries. Where relevant, data are disaggregated by age and sex, to pro...
On 17 Dec 2015 This report makes the case for closing persistent gaps in equity, because the cycle of inequity is neither inevitable nor insurmountable, and the cost of inaction is too high. UNICEF’s commitment to e...
On 17 Dec 2015 Today’s children, and their children, are the ones who will live with the consequences of climate change. This report looks at how children, and particularly the most vulnerable, are affected and what...
On 17 Dec 2015 In this joint publication, UNICEF and the World Health Organization report that between 2000 and 2015, malaria mortality rates among children under age 5 fell by 65 per cent, saving an estimated 5.9 m...
On 17 Dec 2015 The challenge of climate change is huge; it requires an urgent response from all generations. As the effects of climate change become more visible and extreme, they are likely to affect adversely the...
On 17 Dec 2015 This report is a global partnership initiative aimed at ending preventable child and maternal deaths. It also provides current information on causes of child and maternal deaths, and coverage of key i...
On 11 Dec 2015 This report highlights the HIV crisis for vulnerable adolescents in Asia and the Pacific and what we can do to give them the support
they desperately need. If we fail to do this, the world will not g...
On 01 Dec 2015 This report contains nutrition profiles for 24 countries. This report shows that an estimated 195 million children under age 5 in developing countries suffer from stunting, a consequence of chronic nu...
On 08 Sep 2015 Despite rapid economic growth in South Asia, strong inequalities persist and children pay a heavy price. This publication examines latest trends and data on children in the eight countries of the regi...
On 24 Jun 2015 A child’s chance to survive and thrive is much greater in 2015 than it was when the global community committed to the MDGs in 2000. Data show significant progress in areas such as child survival, nutr...
On 24 Jun 2015 This Situation Analysis shows that females in Pakistan face discrimination, exploitation and abuse at many levels, starting with girls who are prevented from exercising their basic right to education,...
On 01 Apr 2015 Despite rapid economic growth in South Asia, strong inequalities persist and children pay a heavy price. This publication examines latest trends and data on children in the eight countries of the regi...
On 27 Mar 2015 Nutrition is key to children’s survival and development. Well-nourished children are healthier and cleverer than their undernourished peers, they grow and develop to their full potential, and they per...
On 18 Mar 2015 This issue brief outlines a roadmap for human progress over the next 15 years. Known as the Sustainable Development Goals, these new global targets will drive investment and action in virtually every...
On 20 Jan 2015 India is home to the largest number of children in the world, significantly larger than the number in China.1 The country has 20 per cent of the 0- 4 years’ child population of the world.
The numb...
On 15 Oct 2014 ‘Making Education a Priority in the Post-2015 Development
Agenda: Report of the Global Thematic Consultation on
Education in the Post-2015 Development Agenda’ offers a
summary of the main themes...
On 18 Sep 2014 Child survival rates have increased dramatically since 1990, during which time the absolute number of under-five deaths has been slashed in half from 12.7 million to 6.3 million, according to a report...
On 18 Sep 2014 The Maharashtra Comprehensive Nutrition Survey 2012 is the first ever state-specific nutrition survey with a focus on infants and children undertwo and their mothers. A representative sample of child...
On 23 Aug 2014 The league table opposite presents the latest available overview of child well-being in 29 of the world’s most advanced economies. Five dimensions of children’s lives have been considered: material we...
On 22 Aug 2014 The World Health Assembly has set the goal of
achieving a 40 per cent reduction in the number of
stunted children under 5 years old by 2025, or around
70 million children saved from the misery o...
On 11 Apr 2014 Social Inclusion of Internal Migrants in India aims to provide an overview of existing innovative practices that increase the inclusion of internal migrants in society and act as a living document tha...
On 21 Oct 2013 To advance Every Woman Every Child, a strategy launched by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UNICEF and other UN organizations are joining partners from the public, private and civil socie...
On 30 Aug 2013 Globally, only 38 percent of infants under the age of six months are exclusively breastfed, though research shows that optimal breastfeeding is the single most effective preventive intervention for re...
On 01 Aug 2013 The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the world’s people – including more than a
billion children – now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of eviden...
On 01 Mar 2012 The State of the World's Children 2011 examines the global state of adolescents; outlines the challenges they face in health, education, protection and participation; and explores the risks and vulner...
On 14 Mar 2011 The Convention on the Rights of the Child (henceforth
referred to as ‘the Convention’) was adopted by the UN
General Assembly on 20 November 1989 and entered into
force on 2 September 1990. It is t...
On 17 Dec 2010 The State of the World’s Children 2009 focuses on maternal and neonatal health and identifies the interventions and actions that must be scaled up to save lives.
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