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You'll find special newsrooms on countries in crisis, as well as pages devoted to global issues affecting children.
Current Hot Topics:
Orphans
UNICEF and global partners define an orphan as a child who has lost one or both parents. By this definition there were over 132 million orphan...
JMP - 2008
The UNICEF/Who Joint Monitoring Programme report (JMP) provides a detailed country, regional and rural/urban breakdown of global...
International Year of Sanitation 2008
2.6 billion people - nearly half of humanity – do not have access to a clean and safe toilet. Those who make up this shocking total live in towns and crowded rural...
SOWC
UNICEF’s flagship publication, launched today, focuses on child survival and proven strategies that could slash child mortality around the world.
CRC@18
This year marked the 18th anniversary of the CRC. That means that anyone who turned 18 in 2007 was among then first generation to reach...
Machel + 10
A new report, released in October 2007 by UNICEF and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict...
September is back-to-school month
For millions of children worldwide, September is back-to-school month. For millions of others, it is just business as usual.
Day of the African Child - 2007
The Day of the African Child has been celebrated on 16 June every year since 1991, when it was first initiated by the Organization of African Unity.
Gearing up for the International Year of Sanitation 2008
On 7 May, 2007, experts from the private and public sector will attend the First Planning Meeting on the International Year of Sanitation 2008 to map out...
Malaria
Malaria kills over one million people each year worldwide. More than 80 per cent of these deaths take place in Sub-Saharan Africa and most are among children under five years of age.
Global Action Week on Education
April 2007 - The Global Action Week is a worldwide campaign to raise awareness of the importance of Education for All. It takes place once a year in April.
World Water Day 2007
On 22 March, the World Water Day will be marked around the globe under the theme of water scarcity - with an estimated 425 million children under the age of 18 still facing water shortages.
Free children from war
Countries from every region, international organizations and NGOs will discuss comprehensive strategies for the prevention of child recruitment and the reintegration of former child soldiers.
The Measles Initiative 2007
The Measles Initiative represents a long-term commitment to support the goal of reducing measles deaths worldwide by 90 per cent by 2010 compared to 2000 estimates.
Children and AIDS: A Stocktaking Report
Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS was launched in October 2005 with the goal of putting the ‘missing face’ of children at the centre of the global HIV/AIDS agenda.
Study on Violence Against Children Press Room
The UN study on Violence Against Children is a landmark effort to provide a detailed global picture of the nature, extent and causes of violence against children.
