Progress is being made on building child-friendly cities in Saudi Arabia after a meeting chaired by Prince Faisal bin Khalid bin Sultan, head of the Northern Borders Region.Read more
Our collective retreat to the safety of our homes during the COVID-19 lockdown has provoked an awakening to the value of local areas for work, play and connecting.Read more
Baby steps they may be but the introduction of new speed restrictions means the French city of Nantes is today just that little bit more child-friendly than it was yesterday.Read more
Houston, San Francisco and Minneapolis are part of the first cohort of cities to officially work towards the USA’s first-ever UNICEF Child Friendly Cities status.Read more
A UNICEF regional roadshow to promote its Child Friendly Cities (CFC) programme will hopefully inspire more cities across the southern Spanish state of Andalucia to get on board.
The new exhibition showcasing the opinions and input...Read more
Urban planners are being encouraged to utilise a set of ’empathy tools’ aimed at helping them design child-friendly environments.
It’s one of the latest initiatives developed by the Urban95 arm of the Bernard van Leer Foundation...Read more
Children’s living environments in Australian capital cities have changed significantly in the past ten years. This is particularly the case for the growing numbers of families raising children in private, inner-city, high-rise housing. Our study...Read more
The city of Bradford is confident of becoming the latest in the UK to gain official UNICEF Child Friendly City and Community status for the region.
Gaining this coveted global status would go a long towards...Read more
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Child-Friendly Cities and Communities handbook has now been translated into French, Spanish and Chinese.
Containing guidance on how to establish a child-friendly cities initiative (CFCI) to help cities do better...Read more
Learning from global experiences will be central to the debate around child poverty when Leeds hosts next week’s Child Poverty in Western Cities seminar.
Practitioners, advocates, academics and policymakers concerned with helping create child-friendly cities across...Read more
Safety, nature and health are at the forefront of the city of New Orleans’ bold new vision for making itself truly child-friendly.
For several months now the city’s Mayor’s Office of Youth and Families (OYF) has...Read more
Child poverty in western cities is a problem often masked by cities’ wealthier areas and conurbations. One such example is Leeds in northern England, which next month hosts the Child Poverty in Western Cities international...Read more
Can play streets help address the problem of dwindling playgrounds in German cities? That’s the hope of planners who want to make the urban landscape truly child-friendly
People are moving to the cities but this has...Read more
Registration is now open for the Child Poverty in Western Cities seminar in Leeds in November.
This is an opportunity for you to join fellow children’s rights experts and policymakers for this important event looking at...Read more
Officials in the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang say they face serious challenges around urbanisation – with children’s rights at the heart of the struggle.
‘Relentless efforts’ in recent years has seen the city take...Read more
