by Zach Dawes Jr | Sep 24, 2020 | News
An additional 1.5 million children have entered a state of multi-dimensional poverty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report published jointly by Save the Children and the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Sept. 17. Household income is only one measure of...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 20, 2020 | News
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was adopted in 1995, offering a hopeful vision for addressing gender inequities around the world. Twenty-five years later, progress has been made, but impacts have been uneven, and persistent inequalities and human...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 29, 2019 | News
One in three children under the age of 5 suffers from some form of malnutrition. One in two children faces “hidden hunger” in the form of vitamin or mineral deficiency. And one in five is overweight or obese. These were three key findings in The State of the World’s...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 17, 2019 | News
Half of the world’s children (175 million) between 3 and 6 years old are not enrolled in pre-primary education programs, according to a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report published April 8. The percentage jumps to 78 percent of pre-primary-age children not...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 5, 2019 | News
Only 35 percent of the world’s children have social safety net protections available to them, according to a joint report published Feb. 6 by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Significant disparities exist by...
