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COVID pushes millions more children deeper into poverty, new study finds
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed an additional 150 million children into multidimensional poverty – deprived of education, health, housing, nutrition, sanitation or water – a…
Coronavirus pandemic is jeopardizing decades of work in reducing preventable childhood deaths, new report finds
Preventable deaths in children under 5 were at the lowest number on record in 2019 at just over 5 million, down from 12.5 million in…
Globally, 1 in 3 children missed out on remote learning when COVID-19 shuttered schools
For at least 463 million children whose schools closed due to COVID-19, “there was no such a thing as remote learning,” the head of the…
Deaths of children in northeast Syria ‘could have been averted’: UNICEF
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has expressed “deep alarm” over reports that eight children – all under the age of five – have died in…
One in three children have dangerous levels of lead in their blood
One in three children around the world have concentrations of lead in their blood at levels likely to cause significant long-term health damage, new research…
Children need green pandemic recovery, celebrity parents tell UK PM
More than 100 high-profile parents from tech entrepreneur Martha Lane-Fox to fashion designer Vivienne Westwood urged Britain’s government on Sunday to ensure economic recovery from…
‘COVID-19 is making a global childcare crisis even worse’: UNICEF chief
Following the release of a UN study that shows at least 40 million children have missed out on early childhood education due to measures to…
Ten million kids ’may never return to school’ after virus
The coronavirus pandemic has caused an ”unprecedented education emergency” with up to 9.7 million children affected by school closures at risk of never going back…
World must do better to prevent children ‘dying needlessly’ from AIDS-related illnesses
Despite progress in the global battle against HIV, the response on behalf of children has fallen behind, the UN agency leading the fight to stamp…
As surrogacy booms, fears Ukraine becoming ’online baby store’
Tears of joy stream down Andrea Viez’s face as she lifts her baby boy, born to a surrogate mother in Ukraine. After nine years of…
Scores of children killed in Philippines’ war on drugs, report says
At least 129 children have been killed in the Philippines’ four-year war on drugs, most by police or allied assailants, but they may only represent…
US must free migrant children from detention, court says
A court in Los Angeles has ordered the release of more than 100 children held in United States family immigration detention because of the risk…
Millions of Yemeni children could starve without urgent aid: UNICEF
The number of malnourished children in war-torn Yemen could rise to 2.4 million by the end of 2020 because of a massive shortfall in aid,…
COVID-19 upends ‘entire generation’ of 600 million South Asian children
Without urgent action, COVID-19 will continue to unravel decades of progress across South Asia, destroying the “hopes and futures of an entire generation”, warns a…
How many children are victims of child labour worldwide?
Two decades of global progress in reducing child labour could be jeopardised by the coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations said on Friday, warning that millions…
UNICEF condemns in ‘strongest possible terms’ killing of children in DR Congo
UNICEF denounced on Saturday, an attack that killed 16 people, including five girls under age 15, in north eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)….
Pandemic puts up to 86mn children at risk of poverty: study
The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic could push as many as 86 million more children into poverty by the end of 2020, a joint…
Experts underscore COVID-19 threat to global progress on child immunization
Global experts in health and child welfare have again highlighted how the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting access to routine immunization services worldwide, putting millions of…
Hundreds of child weddings thwarted in Ethiopia as coronavirus locks girls out of schools
More than 500 girls have been rescued from child marriage in northern Ethiopia since schools were shut due to the new coronavirus, a regional official…
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