It’s been a year since six local government authorities became the USA’s first cohort of UNICEF’s Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) – and started collaborating with young people to identify and implement child rights-based policies...Read more
During the pandemic, many children’s lives became ‘digital by default.’ What have we learnt? While children have reported some positive experiences, says Sonia Livingstone of the London School of Economics, digital inequalities and inadequate educational and other...Read more
Around 23 million children did not receive routine vaccinations in 2020, which was 3.7 million more than the previous year, according to official figures by the World Health Organization and UNICEF.Read more
As the promise of spring hung over Chicago, three teenage boys tussled with insomnia, sifting through the fallout of a pandemic year’s interlocking crises. Read more
Iran has renewed a partnership agreement with UNICEF to develop and implement the Child-Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) national program.
Isfahan is the first CFCI candidate city, after which the scheme will piloted in 12 cities including...Read more
Schools in the Danish city of Aarhus are introducing ‘intelligent’ napkin dispensers that will alert students and teachers when surfaces need disinfecting.The city council has teamed up with the Zurface Group to provide 12 schools...Read more
No parent would ever say ‘this is a great neighbourhood – but I won’t let my child walk to school or play in the local park’. Former Bogotá mayor Enrique Peñalosa grasped this insight when...Read more
Hundreds of unaccompanied minors are facing violence and abuse as they travel across EU borders, and being illegally rejected from entering some countries, says the Save the Children charity.
The children move on foot, hide under...Read more
After a year for everyone like no other, children’s charity UNICEF must ‘look to the future with optimism and hope’ for what it can achieve together with its partners across the world.Read more
Vileika in Belarus is the latest city to become part of UNICEF’s global Child-Friendly City initiative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).Read more
A leading Dutch road safety organisation is urging parents and carers to stop driving children to school when walking or cycling is a safe option.Read more
Six EU cities are promoting a new e-book aimed at helping share innovative ways to involve young people in digitalisation and promote the sense of European citizenshipRead more
The Bernard van Leer Foundation’s Annual Report 2020 highlights how it responded to support the needs of infants, toddlers and caregivers during Covid-19 restrictionsRead more
The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) makes clear the right of all children to be ‘full members of society’, and be included...Read more
