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25 Aug 22
Finland’s municipalities will begin work on “child-oriented budgeting”, which officials hope will promote policies that improve childrens’ lives in the country whose population is ageing faster than...
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23 Aug 21
Finland’s finance ministry will assess the impact of its 2022 budget on children to help promote the interests of the next generation in the rapidly ageing country.
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19 Feb 20
Progress in child welfare has “stalled” and children worldwide “are being failed”, according to a new report that found no country adequately protects children’s health, their environment and their...
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2 Sep 19
Children in Africa will make up more than half of global poverty by 2030, according to the think-tank Overseas Development Institute and charity Save the Children.
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16 Jul 19
Global health chiefs have added their weight to calls for a ban on added sugar in baby foods which pose a risk to long-term health.
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16 Jul 19
Children continue to suffer poverty more intensely than adults and are more likely to lack essentials such as clean water, sanitation, adequate nutrition or primary education.
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29 Mar 19
Cancer survival rates are dramatically lower for children in poor countries and global partnerships are needed to give them a fair chance, says a new study.
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8 Mar 18
Investing more in school meals in West Africa is a “win-win opportunity” for governments to create more local jobs in agriculture and improve the future of children, the United Nations has said.
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26 Jul 17
Children fleeing across the Mediterranean as refugees do so mainly because of threats in their home countries rather than ‘pull’ factors in Europe, Unicef has said.
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10 Jun 16
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon was forced to remove the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen from its children’s rights ‘blacklist’ because a number of countries threatened to withdraw...
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12 May 16
A public-private partnership in Uganda is seeing students from poorer, rural backgrounds outdo their wealthier peers, research has found, adding to a growing debate about the role of PPPs in...
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31 Mar 16
New Zealand’s first real rise in benefits in almost half a century is to come into effect tomorrow, according to social development minister Anne Tolley.
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4 Mar 16
Women in Ireland shoulder one of the most unequal burdens in the world when it comes to childcare, according to the UK’s Overseas Development Institute.
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19 Feb 16
The government of Liberia and US international development agency USAID have signed a financing agreement worth almost $60m to support maternal, neonatal and child health care services in the country...
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2 Dec 15
A third of those who have drowned trying to cross the Aegean Sea this year were children, and the number of children applying for asylum in the European Union has doubled, Unicef has said.