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A Right to be Heard
Listening to children and young people on the move

For many uprooted children, the journey from home can be profoundly lonely and plagued by challenges that put their health, education and futures at risk. A new poll sheds light on experiences and hopes of young people in search of a safe and better future.

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FGM Country Profiles

While the exact number of girls and women worldwide who have undergone FGM remains unknown, at least 200 million girls and women have been cut in 30 countries. The profiles provide data on how widespread the practice of FGM is, when and how it is performed, and what women and men think about the practice

 

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Advantage or Paradox? The challenge for children and young people of growing up urban

UNICEF’s new report demonstrates  the ‘urban paradox’— some of the poorest children in cities fare worse in well-being, education or health than poorest rural children.

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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  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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Global Nutrition Report 2018 - Shining a light to spur action on nutrition

The figures are alarming. Malnutrition is responsible for more ill-health than any other cause and while progress on tackling malnutrition has been made, it is simply not good enough. No country is on course to meet all nine global malnutrition targets.

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Levels and Trends in Child Mortality

An estimated 6.3 million children under 15 years of age died in 2017, or 1 every 5 seconds, according to the new report. The vast majority of these deaths – 5.4 million – occur in the first five years of life and most could have been prevented. Most children under 5 die from preventable or treatable causes like complications during birth, pneumonia, diarrhoea, neonatal sepsis and malaria.

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