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Progress for Every Child in the SDG Era

UNICEF’s first comprehensive assessment on progress towards achieving the global SDG targets for children. The report tracks 44 child-relevant SDG indicators, identifying areas where greater efforts are needed and revealing the alarming inadequacies of data to measure progress.

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Capture the Moment: Early initiation of breastfeeding - the best start for every newborn

No matter where a newborn takes his or her first breath, the desire to give that baby the best start in life is universal. The first hours and days after birth are one of the riskiest periods of a child’s life – but getting an early start to breastfeeding provides babies with a powerful line of defense.

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Women: At the heart of the HIV response for children

The new report highlights the sobering fact that, contrary to popular opinion, the AIDS crisis is far from over. Despite considerable progress made over the last decade, the disease continues to thrive among the marginalized and the powerless, striking people of all ages, including babies, young children and particularly adolescents.

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Children and the Sustainable Development Goals

Children and the Sustainable Development Goals

We believe that consistent, credible data about children’s situations are critical to the improvement of their lives – and indispensable to realizing the rights of every child.

1 in 4

Births of the global population of children under five have never been registered

3 in 4

Children aged 2 to 4 worldwide experience violent discipline by their caregivers on a regular basis

61 million

Number of children of primary school age out of school in 2015

892 million

People who still practised open defecation in 2015

5.6 million

Number of children who died before reaching their fifth birthday

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SDG global indicators related to children

A recently released series of briefing notes provide detailed information on child-related global SDG indicators for which UNICEF has been identified as custodian, co-custodian, or supporting agency for the purposes of global reporting.

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New data on children and women in DPR Korea

New data offering a snapshot into the lives of children and women in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea shows slight improvements but persistent challenges. The data comes from a Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) that was conducted in 2017.

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A Call to Action

Millions of children have migrated across borders or been forcibly displaced and reliable, timely and accessible data and evidence are essential for understanding how migration and forcible displacement affect children and their families – and for putting in place policies and programs to meet their needs.

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Change the Game: An agenda for action on childhood tuberculosis

Every day, nearly 700 children die from tuberculosis (TB), 80% of those before reaching their fifth birthday. Many are never diagnosed. This brochure presents key facts and figures about childhood TB  as well as an agenda to end the disease in children worldwide.

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