Discourse on child poverty.
04/12/2012
The minute the plane lands at Xining Airport, the five visiting Executive Directors of UNICEF National Committees can tell from the parched terrain visible through the small plane windows, that they are landing in a China quite different from the one where they took off.
19/09/2012
In the aftermath of the Wenchuan earthquake, UNICEF and the National Working Committee on Children and Women set up 40 Child Friendly Spaces in severely affected areas of Sichuan. Now recognized as a powerful tool for the long term psycho-social recovery of children, the Child Friendly Space project has helped over 300,000 children and parents to recover from the disaster.
10/09/2012
Only 28% of Chinese mothers breast-feed their children exclusively for six months or more. The percentage is even lower for urban mothers, with only one out of six urban babies exclusively breastfed for the first six months.
02/08/2012
As societies become more and more familiar with children’s rights it is often possible for certain children’s issues that had previously gone unnoticed to come to the surface. Child sexual abuse is one of these issues. Sexual abuse of children is unfortunately an all too common problem found in all countries throughout the world. When children do not have access to critically important knowledge, skills and services set up to protect them from various forms of abuse, these problems often remain deeply hidden from view.
11/07/2012
For children between 5 and 14 years, injuries are the leading cause of illness and death in China. For children under five, injury is the third major cause of death, after neonatal causes and pneumonia.
18/05/2012
Enveloped by mountains and valleys, Hongbai town of Shifang City, was among the most severely damaged in the Wenchuan Earthquake in southwest China in 2008. Out of the 6,800 inhabitants in 1,244 households, nearly 1,000 died, including 159 children under the age of 18.
11/05/2012
Children enjoy the same basic rights as every human being.
28/03/2012
Q&A on breastfeeding
07/03/2012
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22/02/2012
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