Central Sahel Advocacy Brief
<p>The surge in armed violence across Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is having a devastating impact on children’s survival, education, protection and development. The Sahel, a region of immense potential,
UNICEF
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Children uprooted in the Caribbean: how stronger hurricanes linked to a changing climate are driving child displacement
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) issued a report titled, ‘Children Uprooted in the Caribbean: How Stronger Hurricanes Linked to a Changing Climate are Driving Child Displacement,’ which takes stock of the
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Humanitarian Action for Children 2020
<p>In conflict and disaster, children suffer first and suffer most. Today, one in four of the world’s children lives in a conflict or disaster zone — a fact that should shake each of us to
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For every child, every right: the Convention on the Rights of the Child at a crossroads
On 20 November 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a landmark achievement that has since become the world’s most widely ratified human rights treaty.
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The State of the World’s Children 2019: Children, food and nutrition
An alarmingly high number of children are suffering the consequences of poor diets and a food system that is failing them, UNICEF warned in a new report on children, food and nutrition. The State of the
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The State of WASH Financing in Eastern and Southern Africa: regional level assessment
Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) is the region with the lowest percentage of households with coverage to at least basic water of all regions and also lags behind basic sanitation coverage. The analysis
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Levels and trends in child mortality report 2019
Tremendous progress in child survival has been made over the past two decades. And yet, one child or young adolescent died every five seconds in 2018. The vast majority of these deaths (85 per cent) occur
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Trends in maternal mortality: 2000 to 2017
More women and children survive today than ever before. Despite strong progress, however, every 11 seconds, a pregnant woman or newborn dies somewhere in the world – deaths that can be prevented using
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WASH in health care facilities: UNICEF scoping study in Eastern and Southern Africa
Despite the critical role that water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), waste disposal and environmental cleaning services play in the continuum of healthcare, access to WASH services globally remains alarmingly
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Water under fire: Volume 1- emergencies, development and peace in fragile and conflict-affected contexts
Access to safe drinking water is a right critical to a child’s survival, yet protracted crises have left some 420 million children without basic sanitation, and 210 million lacking access to safe drinking