The United Nations projects that China’s population will be surpassed by India’s population this year. According to experts, while this presents a chance to benefit from the demographic dividend, much will depend on how India makes use of its resources, especially its massive population of young people.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stated that it was giving winterization kits to vulnerable families, including pregnant and lactating women, families with disabled children, female-headed households, and others, in several provinces of Afghanistan
Despite the legislative focus on child marriage, implementation has been inadequate in addressing the core reasons and has failed to make a significant impact on its abolition
Seventy-eight percent of respondents toasurvey sponsored by the Center for Global Development,(CGD), a Washington-based research group,also expressed concerns about school closures increasing gender-based violence.
During the third day of the visit, Neeson went to Rondon 3, which is the biggest sheltering facility for Venezuelan migrants in Brazil. More than a thousand people, including 550 children, are currently living at the site
More than 12,000 children were killed or maimed in 2018. UNICEF noted that continued, widespread use of airstrikes and explosive weapons such as landmines, mortars, improvised explosive devices, rocket attacks, cluster munitions and artillery shelling cause the vast majority of child casualties in armed conflict
While significant further displacements continue, UNICEF’s partners have started providing emergency assistance to families arriving at collective shelters in Hassakeh city and Tal Tamar
Repeated attacks have led to children losing their lives, being injured by gunshot or burns, being displaced and separated from their families, and being exposed to violence including rape and other forms of sexual violence, arrests and detention, and psychological trauma
Afghan boys in rural areas are often impelled to marry because of long-held local or tribal traditions — customs on the inheritance rights of widows, the settlement of blood feuds, or prearranged agreements between families to exchange their children for marriage
Recent nutrition surveys across Afghanistan find 22 out of 34 provinces are above the emergency threshold of acute malnutrition. Last year, UNICEF provided life-saving assistance to nearly half of the country’s most nutritionally deprived children. It is aiming to reach 60 percent, or 375,000, of those children this year