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 …
The UN Children`s Fund, Unicef, warned on Tuesday that Pakistan stands in the way of global eradication of polio and could potentially be the last reservoir worldwide of the crippling disease. The agency says 63 cases have been detected so far this year compared to 36 during the same period …
CHENNAI: India occupies the second position in Asia where the most number of natural disasters occur, according to a senior UN expert. “Sixty percent of India’s landmass is susceptible to earthquakes, 14 million hectares are prone to floods and 8000 km of the country’s coastline is prone to cyclones,” said …
The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced people who were trying to escape Shabab territory. The group is widely blamed for causing a famine in Somalia by …
Vaccines against deadly diseases like polio, tuberculosis and hepatitis B have to be stored, transported and administered with abundant caution or else the results can be disastrous, as was demonstrated to a group of journalists this past week during a field trip to villages around Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh. The …
Central Audit Team Finds Same Amount Released, Same Utilisation In Many Dists Lucknow: If there are no polio cases in the state since April 2010, call it a divine intervention. The NRHM central audit team that visited UP in May, found glaring anomalies in the pulse polio drive in the …
Slight increase in infant mortality rate A Keralite, on an average, has the life span of a U.S. citizen as the State ranks high in all health indicators compared to other States in the country. But the declining child sex ratio shows the State in bad light despite the fairly …
More than 1,000 field staff of the department of livestock services are now using cell phone and web-based SMS gateway to report Avian Infleunza outbreaks in the poultry farms of 306 upazilas. The DLS staff through SMS reported 144 out of the 161 outbreaks that have occurred during the last …
Child labourers in Sylhet city, including those working in risky jobs, have very limited support services, according to the child rights workers in the region. According to the UNICEF, more than 70,000 child labourers worked in and around the Sylhet city in 2006, of which around 50,000 lived in the …
The lives of half a million children in the Horn of Africa are at risk, international aid agencies said on Friday, as the worst drought in decades forces thousands of people to flee their homes each day. High food prices and the driest years since the early 1950s have pushed …
JAIPUR: In Rajasthan, the percentage of men suffering from anaemia is 25 per cent, which is making adverse affect on their health and productivity, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition's (GAIN), South Asia head Rajan Sankar said here on Monday. According to the National Family Health Survey 3, around 21% men …
The civic body on Sunday opened a polio control room in Metiabruz to counter the resistance of a section of local residents to the Pulse Polio drive. The
Bhopal: The Woman and Child Development Department has chalked out a special action plan for an effective check on malnutrition in the state. Under the action plan, an animation film will be shown at all the Anganwadi centres from June 15. The animation film produced by UNICEF aims at reducing …
It is not uncommon in rural India to find garbage strewn around or people relieving themselves in the open due to the absence of toilets. But many villages in Madhya Pradesh are a welcome change and are known as
AHMEDABAD: Six students of Delhi Public School (DPS) at Bopal and Calorx Prerna had a chance to visit Zambia and Kenya to discuss environmental issues with students there. They also got an opportunity to meet with representatives from UNICEF and the Indian High Commission in Lusaka in Zambia. Their journey …
Disposal of napkins raised as a concern at consultative meet TIRUCHI: Aiming to maximise sensitisation on menstrual hygiene management and integrate it with total sanitation, the Menstrual Hygiene Management Corporation (MHMC) decentralised its operations following the UNICEF-sponsored state-level annual consultative meeting at the Kalaiarangam Hall here on Sunday. Ten regional …
The recent move of Ann Veneman, former executive director of Unicef, to Nestle Board has left nutrition campaign groups worried. While Unicef supports breastfeeding, Nestle, the food and drinks giant, undermines it. Before she joined Nestle Board on April 13, nutrition advocacy groups International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) and …
CHENNAI: The implementation of Children’s Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act in Tamil Nadu is partial, said V Vasanthi Devi, former chairperson of State Women’s Commission at the Campaign Against Child Labour (CACL) on Saturday. Coming down heavily on private educational institutions, she said, “According to the RTE Act, …
Poor menstrual hygiene, lack of life skills have affected their education Only 30 per cent of the girl students in hostels wash their hands before eating after defecation, while only 40 per cent take bath everyday. While about 60 per cent of the girls cut their nails regularly, open defecation …
