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A mother and her newborn baby at the Maternal and Child Health Training Institute for medically needy in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
UN Photo/Kibae Park

Child mortality rates down sharply but more progress needed – UN report

13 September 2012
Although the pace of childhood death has declined sharply in recent decades – with an estimated 6.9 million children dying before their fifth birthday in 2011, compared to around 12 million in 1990 – greater gains must be made to meet international goals to save infants and young children, according to a United Nations report released today.
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UNICEF

UNICEF warns of impact of high prevalence of child abuse in East Asia and the Pacific

7 August 2012
The high prevalence of physical abuse is causing long-term damage to the lives of far too many children in East Asia and the Pacific, warns a new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
High-impact interventions and tools like new vaccines and improved health care are key to child survival.
UNICEF/Pirozzi

UNICEF, partners rally around global effort to end preventable child deaths

14 June 2012
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today joined governments and partners from the private sector, civil society and faith-based groups to launch a sustained, global effort to end preventable child deaths.
Water familiarisation in one of 10 SwimSafe portable pools in Danang, Viet Nam.
SwimSafe

New UN report urges greater efforts to prevent drowning deaths among children

23 May 2012
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and a partner organization are urging greater use of effective and cost-efficient measures to prevent drowning, which new research shows is a major killer across parts of Asia.
Radhika Coomaraswamy, SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict speaks to the press in South Sudan.
UN Photo/T. La Rose

FEATURE: UN envoy confident use of child soldiers can be eradicated

3 April 2012
The Security Council process of naming and shaming groups that recruit and use child soldiers has been effective in combating the scourge, the United Nations envoy working on the issue says, adding that, like slavery, this horrible practice can be eradicated with concerted action.