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 …
Shortage of infrastructure in schools in Bihar was a 'major challenge', state Minister for Education P.K. Sahi said on Saturday adding there was no drinking water facility in around 13000 government schools. Addressing a seminar 'Right of Children and Law', Shahi said several schools had no toilets, even for girl …
The Lahore High Court on Monday issued notices to the Punjab government for May 24 on a petition pleading to declare that oral polio vaccine (OPV) was not properly provided to children, according to international standards and directions for a judicial inquiry against responsible authorities. Justice Umar Ata Bandial issued …
Nearly 30 million school children in the country still have no access to toilets, even as schools have made significant progress in providing the facility in recent years, a study by UNICEF's Water, Sanitation, Hygiene(WASH) programme revealed on Wednesday. Most schools are also found wanting in teaching of hygiene and …
Ahead of the World Bank's Spring Meetings here this week, government ministers from almost 40 developing countries are meeting with UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, UK International Development Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell, Chair of the United Nations Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation HRH the Prince of …
The latest UNICEF report presents a hard-hitting view of the condition of poor children in urban areas. COMPARISONS between and studies of living conditions in rural and urban India are aplenty, though disaggregated data on the specific deprivations confronting populations in urban centres are not all that easy to find. …
The Department of Water Supply and Sewerage (DWSS) under the Ministry of Physical Planning and Works has launched a ‘total sanitation programme’ in 10 Open Defecation Free (ODF) VDCs — two VDCs each in five development regions — this year to establish healthy villages in the long run. Bipin Poudel, …
While it has made progress on water supply, a high percentage continue to defecate in the open Going by the present pace of progress, India will achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs) on sanitation only by 2054. While some States had already achieved the target and some are close to …
Japan has given United Nations children's fund UNICEF a grant of 120 million Yen, the equivalent to Rs. 7.2 crore, for buying vaccines, supplies, equipment and services in 2012 to ensure India remains free of polio virus. Japan's Ambassador to India Akitaka Saiki and UNICEF India Representative Karin Hulshof signed …
In an interaction with BW’s Rajeev Dubey, Professor S. Mahendra Dev argues why our inclusive growth is far from ‘inclusive’ Both UPA I and UPA II have had identical social objectives: enormously expensive subsidy-laden programmes that began with job guarantee through MGNREGA and have since expanded to free education, food …
While the world has met the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of safe drinking water well in advance of the MDG 2015 deadline, India is among the ten countries after China with the largest population without access to improved drinking water. According to the report issued by the World Health …
A report on the condition of children in Jharkhand presented in Ranchi on Monday by Unicef has revealed alarming facts, particularly in urban areas, which if not addressed immediately threatens to overshadow any effort at growth and development in the coming decades. The report has pointed out that a staggering …
In the wake of growing urbanisation, children living in cities have been prone to more risks than ever before, according to a UNICEF report. “Urbanisation leaves hundreds of millions of children in cities and towns excluded from vital services,” said the report titled ‘States of the World‘s Children 2012: Children …
JAIPUR: The population and size of slums and underdeveloped areas in Jaipur are swelling with increased migration of people from rural areas to urban. Presently, more than half of the city's population resides in urban areas. But 10 years ago, as per the 2001 Census, more than half of the …
Dhaka: About 28 percent of Bangladesh's total population (41.7 million) is living in urban areas, said a Unicef report released on Wednesday. Among the top 21 mega cities of the world, according to the report, Dhaka ranks 9th position with 14.3 million people, while Tokyo 1st with 36.5 million, Delhi …
Children living in urban India are equally vulnerable to poverty as their rural counterparts. A new Indian specific statistics presented at the launch of the Unicef’s flagship publication, Children in an Urban World, shows that the child poverty indicators are equally worse in the cases of both the rural and …
Kolkata, 29 Feb: The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) today said West Bengal needs to improve its infant mortality rate, primary education and malnutrition of poor children, and should address the issue of equity in terms of access of services to the poor urban children. “In terms of children mortality …
43% Of Kids Under 5 Yrs Malnourished, Finds Unicef Study New Delhi: Modern India continues to be plagued by social and health ills like child marriage, early motherhood and domestic violence. Latest data in the “State of the World’s Children report 2012” released by Unicef on Wednesday shows that almost …
About 28 percent of Bangladesh's total population (41.7 million) is living in urban areas, said a Unicef report released on Wednesday. Among the top 21 mega cities of the world, according to the report, Dhaka ranks 9th position with 14.3 million people, while Tokyo 1st with 36.5 million, Delhi 2nd …
The rate of under-five mortality of 95 per cent in the slums of Bangladesh is among the highest in the world, a UNICEF report released in Dhaka on Wednesday said. The high rate of mortality of slum children was attributed to the fact that only 15 per cent of slum …
Buoyed by the success of door-to-door polio vaccination drive, the Union Health Ministry plans to soon start an ambitious Teeka Express, a mobile vaccine van, which will cover 50 districts in the first phase. The Teeka Express will deliver all vaccines that are part of the national immunisation programme and …
