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UNICEF Launches Back-to-School Campaign in Iraq

UNICEF Launches Back-to-School Campaign in Iraq

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched its back-to-school campaign to help millions missing out on education several weeks before the start of the new school year. UNICEF, together with the Iraqi Ministry of Education, launched a nationwide ‘Back to School’ campaign in 10 governorates. Some 3.5 million school-aged Iraqi…
World Leaders Must Invest in Better Data on Children: UNICEF

World Leaders Must Invest in Better Data on Children: UNICEF

UNICEF is calling on world leaders to invest in better data on children, warning in a new analysis that sufficient data is available only for half of the child-related Sustainable Development Goals indicators. The UNICEF analysis shows that child-related data, including measures on poverty and violence that can be compared,…
UNICEF Helps Students Learn Positive Global Citizenship Values

UNICEF Helps Students Learn Positive Global Citizenship Values

This fall, cheered on by teachers across the nation, thousands of students will learn positive global citizenship values and gain the power to make a difference when they Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF. The U.S. Fund for UNICEF's 66th annual Kids Helping Kids campaign encourages children to learn about issues facing other…
Nearly 50 Million Children Uprooted Worldwide – UNICEF

Nearly 50 Million Children Uprooted Worldwide – UNICEF

Across the globe, nearly 50 million children have been uprooted – 28 million of them driven from their homes by conflicts not of their making, and millions more migrating in the hope of finding a better, safer life. Often traumatized by the conflicts and violence they are fleeing, they face…
UNICEF Disturbed Over India’s Child Labour Bill

UNICEF Disturbed Over India’s Child Labour Bill

UNICEF India said Monday that it welcomes the Rajya Sabha’s recent approval to amend the Child Labour Bill prohibiting children under the age of 14 from working. But it is concerned about one provision that could further disadvantage the most vulnerable children. The provision, “where the child helps his family…
167 Million Children Will Live in Poverty: UNICEF

167 Million Children Will Live in Poverty: UNICEF

Based on current trends, 69 million children under five will die from mostly preventable causes, 167 million children will live in poverty, and 750 million women will have been married as children by 2030, the target date for the Sustainable Development Goals – unless the world focuses more on the…
UNICEF India Campaign: Fair Start for Every Child

UNICEF India Campaign: Fair Start for Every Child

UNICEF India unveiled Wednesday the ‘Fair Start’ film as part of a (social) media campaign that will focus on persisting inequities that large groups of children in India face, affecting their survival, growth and development. A series of films, according to UNICEF, will give an insight into the lives of…