Every fifth child faces water scarcity globally: Unicef report
More than 155 million children in South Asia live in areas with high or even extremely high water vulnerability, Unicef says
Focus must be on children ‘left behind’, says UN study
According to a UNICEF report, despite achievements, millions of children live in poverty and die before the age of five, miss schooling and …
Not testing the waters
Case filed against British geological body for not providing information on arsenic contamination in Bangladesh's wells
Unsafe water stunting growth of Indian children: report
Malnutrition and stunting is higher in the country than in the poorest parts of sub-Saharan Africa, says a report by UNICEF and FAO
Extreme weather impact: 20,000 children displaced every day in last 6 years
At least three of every 10 persons displaced across the world due to weather-related disasters was a child
Globally 78.2 million children out of school: UN report
Over half the out-of-school children are girls, data shows
Healthcare takes biggest hit as conflict intensifies in Iraq
Polio and other communicable diseases pose threat
Globally, just 1 in 4 children covered by social protection: UN report
One billion children live in multidimensional poverty without access to education, health, housing, nutrition, sanitation or water
Measles campaigns suspended in most countries; 140 million lives at stake, mostly children
In many countries the regular measles vaccine campaigns are delayed by over a year due to the pandemic disruptions
International Women’s Day: 10 million more girls at risk of child marriage due to COVID-19, warns UNICEF
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, as many as 100 million girls were at the risk of child marriage in the next decade
Most African countries don’t have real-time air pollution monitors: Unicef
This includes Chad, Somalia and the Central African Republic where air pollution has reached emergency levels
Ayurvedic surgeons hooks out guinea worms
A surgical technique developed by an ayurvedic team has drastically curtailed incidence of dracontiasis, a disease caused by guinea worms, in …
Alternative approaches to poverty alleviation
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Why the world should plan for historic African population boom
The Western world witnessed a baby boom post World War II. Now Africa, the world's second most populous continent, is set for a demographic boom …
Africa Union Commission calls for acceleration of efforts towards malnutrition-free Africa
Experts at the meeting called to strengthen school feeding programmes to alleviate hunger, reap psychological benefits like increased …
A healthy child, a healthy nation
Secondary education can reduce child marriage by 66%: UNICEF
Secondary education stronger, more consistent protection against child marriage than primary school education
Climate crisis putting a billion children at ‘extremely high risk,’ warns new UN report
Almost half of the world’s children are seriously threatened by the rapidly deteriorating global climate
Scholarships alone are not enough to get more qualified female teachers into Nigeria’s schools
UNICEF estimates that over half of all girls are not in school in the north while under a third of all primary school teachers are women
Assam schoolchildren draw up agenda for 2019 Lok Sabha elections
About 500 girls from Assam, aged 14-19, have produced a 'Children’s Agenda' focusing on health, nutrition, water, sanitation and …
New research links encephalitis to disability in Bihar
Most researches till now focused on cause of AES; this is the first to study children who survived the disease
Access to safe water, sanitation has improved, says WHO-UNICEF report
Some 2.5 billion people still use unimproved sanitation facilities; can the world achieve MDG target by 2015?
Multidimensional poverty affects 2/3rd of children in rural Nigeria: UNICEF
Larger proportion of children involved in economic labour were multi-dimensionally poor
Executed by convictions
WHO's acceptance of wrong information has resulted in the death of numerous children
Not kidding
Children in developing countries continue to suffer, claims UNICEF