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Health workers measure and record the height and weight of Erlan Bernoupereinev, 3, at his home, in Kindik Uzyak Village in the Konlikul District, Republic of Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan.
UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi

Youth obesity increases 10-fold in four decades, UN-backed study reveals

11 October 2017
The number of obese children and adolescents aged five to 19 years worldwide has risen tenfold in the past four decades, and if current trends continue, there will be more obese children and adolescents than those moderately or severely underweight by 2022, a United Nations-backed study shows.
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

VIDEO: UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors sing to ban child marriage

19 July 2017
Singer Angélique Kidjo and eight of Benin's other music artists are urging parents to not marry off their young daughters in a new music video created by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
A fifteen-year-old child works to weld a frame in Sana’a, Yemen.
UNICEF/Al-Zikri

On World Day Against Child Labour, UN urges protection for children in conflicts and disasters

12 June 2017
Children in areas affected by conflict and disasters are among the most vulnerable, the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) in warning on the World Day Against Child Labour, making a strong call for an end to the scourge, especially as children trapped in crisis risk falling prey to trafficking or being forced into hazardous work.
Students participate in class while listening to teacher at the Sujat Nagar urban slum school in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Dominic Chavez/World Bank

Ongoing violations of child rights highlighted as UN monitoring body opens annual session

16 January 2017
Children face the ongoing violations of their rights worldwide, including poverty, violence and discrimination against them, a senior United Nations human rights official told the body that monitors implementation of a global treaty on the matter.