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Each year, the United Nations Children's Fund's (UNICEF’s) flagship publication, The State of the World's Children, closely examines a key issue affecting children. The report includes supporting data and statistics.
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The State of the World's Children 2023
For Every Child, Vaccination
The world is facing a red alert for children’s health: Vaccination coverage dropped sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic leaving millions more children unprotected against some of childhood’s most serious diseases. In addition many millions of children from some of the world’s most marginalized communities have long missed out on life-saving vaccination. Catch-up and recovery are needed urgently to vaccinate the children missed and to avoid further backsliding. And greater effort is needed to reach the children historically left behind. The State of the World’s Children 2023 examines what needs to happen to ensure that every child everywhere is protected against vaccine-preventable diseases.
The State of the World's Children 2021
On My Mind Promoting, Protecting and Caring for Children’s Mental Health
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised huge concerns for the mental health of an entire generation of children. But the pandemic may represent only the tip of a mental health iceberg – an iceberg we have ignored for far too long. For the first time The State of the World’s Children 2021 examines the mental health of children and adolescents. Against a backdrop of rising awareness of mental health issues there is now a unique opportunity to promote good mental health for every child protect vulnerable children and care for children facing the greatest challenges. Making that happen will require urgent investment in child and adolescent mental health across sectors – not just in health – to support proven interventions. It will also need societies to break the silence surrounding mental health by addressing stigma promoting understanding and taking seriously the experiences of children and young people.
The State of the World's Children 2019
Children, Food and Nutrition - Growing Well in a Changing World
This report examines nutrition providing a fresh perspective on a rapidly evolving challenge. Despite progress in the past two decades around 200 million under-fives suffer from undernutrition. Adding to this toll is rising obesity which affects 38 million children. All these forms of malnutrition threaten children’s development while obesity is creating a lifelong legacy of disease. At the heart of this evolving challenge is a global shift towards modern diets that do not meet children’s nutritional requirements. The report provides unique data and analysis of malnutrition in the 21st century and outlines recommendations to put children’s needs at the heart of global and national food systems.
The State of the World’s Children 2017
Children in a Digital World
As the debate about whether the internet is safe for children rages The State of the World’s Children 2017: Children in a Digital World discusses how digital access can be a game changer for children or yet another dividing line. The report represents the first comprehensive look from UNICEF at the different ways digital technology is affecting children identifying dangers as well as opportunities. It makes a clear call to governments the digital technology sector and telecom industries to level the digital playing field for children by creating policies practices and products that can help children harness digital opportunities and protect them from harm.
The State of the World's Children 2016
A Fair Chance for Every Child
The State of the World's Children 2015
Reimagine the Future - Innovation for Every Child (Executive Summary)
The State of the World's Children 2014
Every Child Counts - Revealing Disparities, Advancing Children’s Rights
The State of the World's Children 2013
Children with Disabilities
The State of the World's Children 2012
Children in an Urban World
While cities have long been associated with employment development and economic growth hundreds of millions of children in the world’s urban areas are growing up amid scarcity and deprivation. This publication presents the hardships these children face as violations of their rights as well as impediments to fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals. It examines major phenomena shaping the lives of children in urban settings including migration economic shocks and acute disaster risk. It also provides examples of efforts to improve the urban realities that children confront and identifies broad policy actions that should be included in any strategy to reach excluded children and foster equity in urban settings driven by disparity.
The State of the World's Children 2011
Adolescence - An Age of Opportunity
The State of the World’s Children 2011: Adolescence – An Age of Opportunity examines the global state of adolescents; outlines the challenges they face in health education protection and participation; and explores the risks and vulnerabilities of this pivotal stage. The report highlights the singular opportunities that adolescence offers both for adolescents themselves and for the societies they live in. The accumulated evidence demonstrates that investing in adolescents' second decade is our best hope of breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty and inequity and of laying the foundation for a more peaceful tolerant and equitable world.
The State of the World's Children 2010
Special Edition - Celebrating 20 Years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
On 20 November 2009 the global community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child the unique document that sets international standards for the care treatment and protection of all individuals below age 18. To celebrate this landmark the United Nations Children’s Fund is dedicating a special edition of its flagship report The State of the World’s Children to examining the Convention’s evolution progress achieved on child rights challenges remaining and actions to be taken to ensure that its promise becomes a reality for all children.
The State of the World's Children 2009
Maternal and Newborn Health
The State of the World’s Children 2009 examines the current state of maternal and neonatal health explores the fundamentals of a supportive environment for mothers and newborns and outlines ways to strengthen efforts in support of primary health care.
The State of the World's Children 2008
Child Survival
The 2008 report examines the state of child survival and primary health care for children with a strong emphasis on trends in child mortality.It appraises the lessons learned in child survival over the past century.The centerpiece of the report looks at several of the most promising approaches-community partnerships the continuum of care framework and health-system strengthening for out-comes-to reach those mothers new borns and children who are currently excluded from essential interventions. By highlighting examples from countries and districts where these have been successful as well as exploring the main challenges to their expansion this report offers practical ways to jump-start the progress.
The State of the World's Children 2007
Women and Children - The Double Dividend of Gender Equality
The State of the World's Children 2006
Excluded and Invisible
The State of the World's Children 2005
Childhood Under Threat
The 2005 edition of UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children focuses on how poverty conflict and HIV/AIDS threaten the idea of childhood as a period of time for children to grow and develop to their full potential. In several regions and countries some of the gains made since the adoption of the Convention on the rights of the child in 1989 are in danger of reversal. The rights of over 1 billion children are violated by being severely underserved of one or more of the basic services required to survive grow and develop.
The State of the World's Children 2004
Girls, Education and Development
The State of the World’s Children 2004 emphasizes the important role that girls’ education plays in advancing human development. It highlights strategies programmes and initiatives in place in countries all around the world aimed at promoting girls’ education and improving the lives of all children.
The State of the World's Children 2003
Each year UNICEF’s flagship publication The State of the World's Children closely examines a key issue affecting children. The report includes supporting data and statistics and is available in English French and Spanish language versions.
The State of the World's Children 2002
Leadership
This issue of The State of the World's Children calls for leadership from all continents and all sectors of society. It illustrates the many and varied ways that people have shown their commitment to children's welfare. The Report emphasizes the need to give children the best possible start in life to ensure that every child completes a basic education and to involve children - adolescents in particular - in the decisions that affect their lives. The State of the World's Children notes that no single government or organization can achieve those goals on their own but together we can build a world fit for children. This report includes statistical data text figures maps and excerpts from the regional high level meetings that were held in 2000-2001 in preparation for the Special Session on Children.
The State of the World's Children 2001
Early Childhood
What happens during the very earliest years of a child's life from birth to age 3 influences how the rest of childhood and adolescence unfolds. Yet this critical time is usually neglected in the policies programmes and budgets of countries. Drawing from reports the world over The State of the World's Children 2001 details the daily lives of parents and other caregivers who are striving - in the face of war poverty and the HIV/AIDS epidemic - to protect the rights and meet the needs of these young children. Country profiles maps and statistical data for 193 countries are also presented.