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  World Water Week 2018: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Water

  Posted by: UNICEF August 27, 2018

  The world is not yet on track to meet Sustainable Development Goal 6: Access to safe water and sanitation for all. Water is life. Without water, children simply cannot survive. Without basic toilets, entire communities live with human waste in their environment. Without taps and soap for handwashing, diseases spread rapidly. Young children are particularly vulnerable, and water and sanitation related diseases remain among the leading causes of death in children under five. When hospitals and health care centres do not have running water, toilets or soap, they can become disease factories. At the time of birth, this can be a matter of life or death for both mother and baby. To celebrate, and raise awareness of, World Water Week 2018, here are 10 facts about water that might surprise you. Read more »

  Categories:

  • Child Survival

  Tags:

  • Water
  • WASH
  • Child Mortality

  Geographic Regions:

  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Asia
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  Shrouded Maternity: Stories from pregnant Rohingya refugees

  Posted by: UNICEF August 22, 2018

  Nine months since violence forced thousands of Rohingya people to flee Myanmar, conditions for pregnant women in one of the world’s largest refugee camps remain dire, especially for survivors of sexual violence. Read more »

  Categories:

  • Child Survival

  Tags:

  • Rohingya
  • violence against women

  Geographic Regions:

  • Asia
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  7 Reasons Why Migrants Flee Central America

  Posted by: UNICEF August 16, 2018

  Pervasive violence and poverty drive desperate Central Americans to migrate in search of safety and a better life. UNICEF works with governments and local partners to improve conditions in their home countries. Read more »

  Categories:

  • Child Protection

  Tags:

  • uprooted
  • migrants
  • Child Trafficking
  • Children Uprooted

  Geographic Regions:

  • Central America and the Caribbean
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  Canadian champion for children in Côte d'Ivoire

  Posted by: Guest Author August 16, 2018

  My name is Sophie Chavanel and I am the Chief of Communications for UNICEF in Côte d'Ivoire. What motivates me every day in my work is giving every child a voice, regardless of where they live or come from, and no matter their gender, religion or race. Read more »

  Categories:

  • Child Protection

  Tags:

  • World Humanitarian Day
  • Child Protection
  • Côte d'Ivoire

  Geographic Regions:

  • Sub-Saharan Africa
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  Closer To Home

  Posted by: Kids Of Canada August 10, 2018

  It's easy to think that homelessness isn't a problem in Canada, a "first-world" country. However, it's much closer to home than we think. It's our responsibility to be aware of that and help break down the stigma that surrounds homelessness to increase access to resources for the less fortunate. Read more »

  Categories:

  • Education

  Tags:

  • One Youth
  • Kids of Canada
  • Canada
  • Poverty

  Geographic Regions:

  • North America
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  Discovering and Defining Indigenous Identity

  Posted by: Kids Of Canada August 9, 2018

  That’s when I realized, Indigenous people (whether raised in our cultures or not) have feelings of inadequacy due to colonization, and these feelings need to be addressed so we can combat them. Read more »

  Categories:

  • Education

  Tags:

  • Kids of Canada
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • One Youth

  Geographic Regions:

  • North America
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  No World Peace Without Investment In Education

  Posted by: David Morley August 3, 2018

  As many children in Canada head into the first weeks of summer vacation, for many others, their summer vacations will never start. That’s because they were never in school to begin with. Worldwide, one in every five children, adolescents and youth is out of school – that is more than 263 million kids being denied their right to education. At UNICEF, we believe one child denied his or her right to learn is one too many. Two hundred and sixty-three million is beyond imaginable. Read more »

  Categories:

  • Education

  Tags:

  • Education
  • Child Protection
  • Convention on the Rights of the Child

  Geographic Regions:

  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Asia
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
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  The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative: Step by Step, Day by Day… That’s (Still) the Baby-Friendly Way

  Posted by: Guest Author July 31, 2018

  The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative has the power to create systems change, inform professional practice and enrich personal values and ethics and strengthen commitment to improve women’s and children’s health and the well being of families. It enables mothers to achieve their personal goals regarding infant feeding. Read more »

  Categories:

  • Child Survival

  Tags:

  • Breastfeeding
  • World Breastfeeding Week
  • Mothers
  • Child Mortality

  Geographic Regions:

  • Middle East and North Africa
  • North America
  • Asia
  • Australia and Oceania
  • Europe
  • South America
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  Pleased to introduce you to the pentavalent vaccine!

  Posted by: UNICEF July 27, 2018

  The story of how pentavalent became one of the most used vaccines in the world. Read more »

  Categories:

  • Child Protection

  Tags:

  • Child Mortality
  • Vaccines

  Geographic Regions:

  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Asia
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  Just Snap Out Of It - Aisha's Story

  Posted by: Kids Of Canada July 25, 2018

  There is such stigma around mental health, so much that some parents even say “I’d rather have my kids going through leukemia than going through clinical depression.” Acknowledging firstly that mental health exists, as well as knowing it is as important as our physical health, if not more, is the first step towards raising awareness against such stigma. Read more »

  Categories:

  • Child Protection

  Tags:

  • One Youth
  • Kids of Canada
  • Mental Health

  Geographic Regions:

  • North America