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World News in Brief: Women’s health in Sudan, childhood wasting, Belarus trade unions, Guatemala child rights violation

·June 8, 2025·4 min read

It warned that without immediate support, women and girls will continue to pay the price of this crisis with their lives, as hundreds of thousands are being left without access to emergency obstetric care or support after rape. Often suffering complications from constant distress, malnutrition, and physical exhaustion, more and...

Deadly impacts of childhood stunting can be prevented, WFP insists

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·March 27, 2025·1 min read

Childhood stunting from malnutrition is a global but preventable problem if adequate investment can be found, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday, amid chronic funding shortages that threaten essential feeding programmes....

‘Robbed’ of their childhood: UNICEF warns of crisis facing Haiti’s youth

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·February 1, 2025·1 min read

In a briefing on Friday, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric reported that more than 1,600 men, women and children have fled. Two-thirds are seeking refuge with host families and over 500 sheltering in three newly established displacement sites, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Children at risk The situation...

‘Turning the tide’ on childhood violence

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·November 11, 2024·1 min read

Among the pledges, nine countries pledged to ban corporal punishment – an issue that affects three out of every five children regularly in their homes. “Despite being highly preventable, violence remains a horrific day to day reality for millions of children around the world – leaving scars that span generations,”...

Education: More investment in school health, nutrition, will realize childhood potential

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·February 13, 2023·2 min read

It is estimated that some 584 million children have limited or no access to basic drinking water services at school. Nearly half live in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the study by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme...

COVID-19 fuels slowest rate of childhood vaccination in three decades, leaving millions at risk |

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·July 17, 2022·5 min read

The figures released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, show the percentage of children who received three doses of the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP3) – a marker for immunization coverage within and across countries – fell five points between 2019 and 2021,...