Accra, Ghana’s capital, is the latest major city to host a comprehensive ‘clean air’ project headed by the Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) that focuses chiefly on the health implications for children and young people.Read more
The number of children worldwide dying before their fifth birthday has reached ‘a historic low’, says the United Nations (UN).
More children than ever before are surviving early childhood today, with the global under-5 mortality rate...Read more
Children in cities in Ukraine’s frontline areas have been forced to spend between 3,000 and 5,000 hours – equivalent to between four and almost 7 months – sheltering in basements and underground metro stations over...Read more
It is a year since the Türkiye and Syria suffered the catastrophic, most deadliest earthquakes in their recent history, and still the devastating impacts continue to reverberate for children and young people.Read more
Better global collaboration is needed to protect children, says UN children’s charity UNICEF, which warns that 2024 is likely see young people exposed to even higher levels of economic hardship, war and violence.Read more
A significant rise in child poverty was seen in 40 of the world’s richest countries between 2014 and 2021, says the UN Children’s Fund’s global research centre, Innocenti.Read more
Statia – population 3,242 (approx) – has become the first island in the Dutch Caribbean to become a candidate for UNICEF’s Child Friendly Cities Initiative.Read more
A concentration of greenhouse gases, rising sea levels, and warming, acidifying oceans – these represent a clear threat to children’s health, and even their right to life. The UN World Meteorological Organisation warned recently of...Read more
A cross-European & philanthropic partnership has announced new funding that will move the eradication of polio – one of the world’s deadliest diseases affecting children – a step closerRead more
Children’s charity UNICEF has announced an agreement to secure supply of the world’s second malaria vaccine, R21/Matrix-M.
It marks a significant milestone on the journey towards meeting the high demand for doses of new vaccines...Read more
Weather-related disasters caused 43.1 million internal displacements of children in 44 countries over a six-year period – or approximately 20,000 child displacements a day, says children’s charity UNICEF.
Children Displaced in a Changing Climate is the first global...Read more
The head of UNICEF, Catherine Russell, has visited three Brazilian cities to highlight the plight of children in poverty and the risks to them posed by climate change and the environment.
More than half of Brazil’s...Read more
Governments across Europe and Central Asia are being urged to put in place policies to protect against extreme heatwaves – and in so doing protect millions of children who are feeling the brunt of the...Read more