UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and …
A Unicef report disclosed that inaccessibility to some 290,000 (0.29 million) children to immunise them against poliovirus has turned to be a major challenge due to insecurity in Gadap Town of Karachi, North and South Waziristan, FR Bannu and Khyber Agency in Fata, being major reservoirs of the virus all …
A recent study carried out by the United Nation International Children Economic Fund (UNICEF) have shown that 113million Nigerians, representing 70.6 per cent lack access to improved sanitation facilities, thereby defecate in the open. A Water, Sanitation and Hygiene specialist (WASH) specialist, Saaondo Anon who gave the figure at the …
THE need for governments globally to ensure that mothers and babies, especially those in the rural communities, get the quality healthcare they need to survive, has become a source of concern to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Also, the need for governments to provide the relevant tools that would …
At least 54 million people in Asia can thank Bindeshwar Pathak when they defecate in private. If he has his way, about 600 million people in India who don’t have that luxury will join them a decade from now. Pathak, 71, invented a pour-flush, compost latrine in 1970 that is …
UNICEF estimates that almost 594 million —nearly 50 percent of India’s population — defecates in the open, with the situation particularly acute in impoverished rural areas such as the Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh. Carolyne Wheeler of the non-governmental organisation WaterAid, which has carried out research on the issue in …
Each year 5.5 million babies enter and leave the world without being recorded and one in three newborns – over 45 million babies – do not have a birth certificate by their first birthday. Babies who are stillborn, born too early, or who die soon after birth are least likely …
Laamu atoll to set benchmark for climate change development, says UNDP thumbnail The United Nations in Maldives launched its new project, the ‘Low Emission Climate Resilient Development (LECReD) Programme’ in Fonadhoo, Laamu atoll yesterday (May 18). Azusa Kubota, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) representative, said the ambitious programme would set …
Cholera has broken out in the capital of South Sudan where five months of civil war has left thousands homeless and disrupted food supplies and health services, according to the World Health Organization. WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said on Monday nine people were believed to have died of cholera, which …
Since 1990, almost 2 billion people globally have gained access to improved sanitation, and 2.3 billion have gained access to drinking water from improved sources. Some 1.6 billion of these people have piped water connections in their homes or compounds, according to a new WHO/UNICEF report, entitled Progress on drinking …
Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 Target 5A calls for the reduction of maternal mortality ratio by three quarters between 1990 and 2015. It has been a challenge to assess the extent of progress due to the lack of reliable and accurate maternal mortality data – particularly in developing-country settings where …
Sometimes, a shard of reality can raise serious doubts about what looks like a grand feat. A small study of water samples from urban and rural households declared as getting drinking water from "improved" sources has shown that about 42% of urban and 60% of rural households were actually getting …
He’s the consummate villain: terrorizing villagers, pillaging towns and commanding a loyal gang of friends and flies. His name? Mr. Poo. He is a lowly pile of waste. But now is his turn in the limelight. He stars in “Poo Party,” a music video by Unicef India, part of a …
The World Bank is providing support to the government of Bangladesh to increase the supply of safe water in rural areas, reports UNB. The Bangladesh Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (BRWSSP), supported by the World Bank, aims to implement rural piped water supply schemes as well as non-piped water …
Unicef and Young Indians (YI) in a meeting on "Children's rights and business principle" on Sunday discussed about dismal child statistics in state. Speaking on the occasion, UNICEF chief of field office in Madhya Pradesh Trevor Clark said 56 out of every 1,000 newborns die before their first birthday while …
WHO Representative to Pakistan Dr, Ni’ma Saeed Abid and Country Representative of UNICEF Dan Rohrmann visited Quetta to meet high government functionaries and discuss the risk of poliovirus circulation in the province. The UN officials met Chief Minister of Balochistan Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch and Minister of Health Rahmat Baloch. …
Parliamentary Secretary on Health Khawaja Imran Nazir has said that healthy Punjab will lead towards a healthy Pakistan and the target for making Punjab polio-free province would be achieved in 2014. He expressed these views while administering polio drops to the children at Mayo Hospital Paeds ward in connection with …
Canada has announced a contribution of $20 million to be paid over the next three years for eradication of polio in Pakistan. The contribution will support the Unicef ‘Polio Plus Initiative’ by increasing coverage, access and effectiveness of polio vaccine. Canadian Minister of State for Multiculturalism Tim Uppal, concluding his …
World Food Programme (WFP) has supplied relief and food assistance to approximately 972,000 returnees and displaced persons in six districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province and four agencies of FATA region. Talking to APP Communication Officer of WFP, Amjad Jamal on Sunday said that WFP has established four distribution points …
The Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development has launched the second phase of the Local Governance and Community Development Programme (LGCDP) to reform governance restructures, improve service delivery and implement government projects at the local level. The ministry on Monday said the programme will be implemented in collaboration with …
Bangalore: Blame it on increase in population, urbanization, rapid industrialization and climate change, Karnataka’s water resources are under severe threat and depleting fast. The overexploited groundwater resources are suffering, pushing the water table down. These facts came to light at a state-level consultative workshop on Iimplications of climate change on …
