Under the UK’s two-child limit, families on benefit receive a payment for each of their first two children, but no more for any additional children.Read more
|Comment|author: The Conversation Global Perspectives
Over one billion people – including close to 500 million children – live in slums and informal settlements, mostly in cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In 2023, the UN-Habitat Assembly approved a historic...Read more
Thousands of candles have been burning brightly in cities across Switzerland to highlight the plight of children and families living in poverty.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
Social determinants of health – the social conditions in which people grow up, live and work – can influence the risk of contracting AIDS and the mortality associated with the disease.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
New Zealand’s government says the actions it took during the most challenging economic conditions in a generation or more has resulted in a significant drop in children going without regular food.
But there is a warning...Read more
The impact on children of the war in Ukraine and rising child poverty are among the themes tackled in the 2023 annual report of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA).Read more
Millions of Americans struggle to afford healthy meals and nutritious food. Known as ‘food insecurity,’ this problem was already rising when Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits – previously called food stamps – were...Read more
|Comment|author: The Conversation Global Perspectives
The Children’s Rights Alliance in Ireland has launched its Child Poverty Monitor 2023, analysing the state of play for children and young people and tracking government progress on tackling the key issues.Read more
Child poverty rates in Aotearoa New Zealand are ‘a sad indictment on the country’, with no real improvement in policy that could turn things aroundRead more
The number of children needing humanitarian assistance rose more than 20 per cent this year to 149 million, with Afghanistan then the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) most severely impacted.Read more
When teachers at Children’s Playhouse, a pair of child care centres in South Philadelphia, noticed children sneaking school-provided snacks into their book bags to take home, it was a ‘huge red flag’, says founder and...Read more