Tag: UNICEF

• Wednesday, July 1st 2015 - 20:27 UTC

  Lack of sanitation for 2.4 billion people undermining health improvements

  

  Lack of progress on sanitation threatens to undermine the child survival and health benefits from gains in access to safe drinking water, warn WHO and UNICEF in a report tracking access to drinking water and sanitation against the Millennium Development Goals.

• Saturday, May 2nd 2015 - 10:46 UTC

  “World closer than ever to wipe out polio, but no victory declaration yet”

  

  The world is closer than ever to being able to wipe out polio, international experts said, with zero cases of the crippling disease recorded across all of Africa this year and fewer than 25 globally.

• Monday, March 23rd 2015 - 19:55 UTC

  UN calls for global unity in pursuit of better water access for all

  

  As the perils of climate change increasingly threaten the planet, the international community must unite in “a spirit of urgent cooperation” to address the many water-related challenges facing humanity, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared on Sunday.

• Saturday, September 6th 2014 - 06:23 UTC

  Latin America has the worst homicide and abuse stats in children and teenagers

  

  Latin America and the Caribbean have the largest share of homicides among children and adolescents in the world, revealed a UNICEF report released yesterday. According to the study, in 2012 alone, “more than 25,000 homicide victims in the region were below the age of 20 — representing about one quarter of all homicide victims worldwide.”

• Saturday, August 31st 2013 - 18:22 UTC

  UNICEF says 2.3 million under-16s in Spain at risk of malnutrition

  

  The continuing fall in household income in Spain is causing many families to cut down on basic necessities such as food and it is estimated that a quarter of under-16, or 2.3 million are at risk of malnutrition, according to a recent statement by Gabriel González-Bueno, responsible for Child Policies at UNICEF in Spain.

• Tuesday, May 17th 2011 - 23:16 UTC

  Latin America has 45% of under 18, equivalent to 81 million living in poverty

  

  Almost 81 million children under 18 suffer from poverty in Latin America which is equivalent to 45% of that age group according to a study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

• Tuesday, May 11th 2010 - 16:36 UTC

  Violent Crime Replaces Unemployment as Main Concern in Latinamerica

  

  Latin America has “some of the highest criminality rates in the world” and for the first time in decades delinquency has replaced unemployment as the main concern of the population, according to a report from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released this week.