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Photo: UNICEF/AFGA2010-00325/Noorani
UNICEF/AFGA2010-00325/Noorani

UN experts urge real dialogue with children about their rights, decisions that affect them

23 September 2014
A group of United Nations independents experts today called on governments to make renewed efforts to ensure that children’s views are heard and taken into account.
Women and their babies outside the maternity ward of Kissidougou Hospital in the south-eastern Forestière Region of Guinea.
UNICEF/Olivier Asselin

UN reports one million children die on first day of life from mostly preventable causes

16 September 2014
While child survival rates have increased dramatically since 1990, one million babies each year do not see their second day of life, many succumbing to complications during labour and delivery that could be easily prevented with simple, cost effective interventions, according to a report released today by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
UNICEF says children rights in south Asia have made strides but inequalities exist.
UNICEF

UNICEF: progress for children rights in south Asia, but inequalities exist

11 September 2014
Despite rapid economic growth and huge progress in realizing the rights of children, young people in South Asia are paying a heavy price, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported today, noting that “everybody in South Asia has an obligation – and the potential – to do more to realize the rights of every single child in the region.”
A young rape survivor at a safe house in Monrovia, Liberia.
UN Photo/Staton Winter

Evidence on rampant violence against children ‘compels us to act’ – UNICEF report

4 September 2014
Violence against children is universal – so prevalent and deeply ingrained in societies it is often unseen and accepted as the norm – according to new, unprecedented data presented by the United Nations today.