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 United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) released a report on Tuesday which stated that 69 million children below five years of age are at the risk of dying from "preventable causes" by 2030 if countries fail to take action to improve the health and education scenario for the underprivileged …
One of the strongest El Niño events ever recorded has placed the lives of 26.5 million children at risk of malnutrition, water shortages and disease in ten countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has reported. "Children face protection risks as families and communities move …
Luanda — THE deadly yellow fever continues claiming lives despite attempts to halt its spread. The disease has killed more than 70 people since it recently emanated from Angola. It has since spread to China, Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya. As of June 13, the three countries had reported …
Malnutrition could have added to the number of deaths in the insurgency ravaged areas of the North-east if not for the intervention of UNICEF and other international agencies. It is a recognised fact that areas prone to deadly outbreaks of malnutrition often overlap areas of war and conflict. Many areas …
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of children who do not attend school is rising, child marriage has not dropped in decades and millions of young children will die mostly preventable deaths by 2030 if global poverty is not addressed, UNICEF said in a bleak report issued on …
Right now, people often associate the use of drones with warfare. But in the future they could serve humanitarian purposes, such as delivering aid to people in developing countries. For example, the pilotless flying machines might offer a cheaper and better way to deliver vaccines. And that could potentially boost …
With 6.5 million people - a third of the population - in Malawi facing acute food shortage, UNICEF has committed to continue vital nutrition support for the country's 300,000 children who are at risk of malnutrition in the current emergency. The UN agency has just completed a mass screening of …
The European Union and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have pledged to release €30 million for the reduction of chronic malnutrition in Mozambique.This followed an appeal by Mozambique’s technical secretariat for food and nutritional security concerns for about 43 percent of children suffering from chronic malnutrition in the country. …
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has disclosed that no fewer than 34,512 children in Adamawa State are severely malnourished, a situation it described as “high prevalence” and unacceptable. In a press statement yesterday, the Chief Field Officer, Bauchi Field Office, UNICEF Nigeria, Abdulai Kaikai, said the figure emanated from the …
UNITED NATIONS – The magnitude-7.8 earthquake that struck Ecuador’s northern Pacific coast on April 16 destroyed 280 schools, leaving 120,000 children without access to education, UNICEF said Tuesday. UNICEF said it is helping the Ecuadorian government to install 50 temporary school buildings to accommodate roughly 20,000 children in the worst-affected …
Japan has some of the worst wealth inequality and highest rates of child poverty among the world’s developed nations, according to a UNICEF report unveiled Thursday, which ranked the nation 34th out of 41. The report, titled “Fairness for Children: A league table of inequality in child well-being in rich …
With only 4.7% of gram panchayats of the state being open defecation free, the Karnataka government aims to build 10.3 lakh more toilets across the state in 2016-2017. This is to achieve the target of 40 lakh toilets by 2019 under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The state now has 21 …
Ado Ekiti — The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and European Union (EU) at the weekend said that Ekiti State leads other states of the federation in open defecation. The international organizations said 1.8 million Ekiti residents out of a total population of 2.7 million are engaged in open defecation, …
Ondjiva — The United Nations Children's Education Fund (UNICEF) in Angola is planning to invest Usd 2.0 million in water projects this year in southern Cunene province. This was said to Angop Wednesday in Ondjiva by UNICEF Cunene programme officer, Pedro Kawilila. He noted that currently the institution is identifying …
The continent’s population will continue to soar with the birth of almost two billion babies in the next 35 years and eventually reach 4.2 billion by 2100. An increasingly crowded Africa will have to invest in reproductive health and education to avert a disaster.
MUMBAI: Is malnutrition in childhood triggering an early onset of hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidemia among Maharashtra's population? The state health department hopes to have an answer in the new year, thanks to a study it is conducting along with UNICEF and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). "The study is …
Following reports of increasing food shortage and hunger problem in Malawi coming from its communities and villages, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is carrying out a mass screening for malnutrition in children under five across 25 districts in Malawi, which accounts for 90 per cent of the country. “We …
Some 180,000 children under the age of five die every year - roughly 500 a day - in sub-Saharan Africa due to diarrhoeal diseases linked to inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned today ahead of a conference in the region on boosting financing for …
The importance of hand-washing in personal and public hygiene has evolved over the centuries. While the market with its countless number of soaps and hand-wash products for personal hygiene with the accompanying advertising has created a false sense of security, it is community hygiene implemented through public health measures that …
The federal government has lamented loss of N455 billion annually to poor sanitation saying it is equivalent to 1.3 per cent of Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP). Permanent secretary of the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Rabi Jimeta disclosed this yesterday at a national stakeholders' consultative workshop on draft hygiene …
