By Yvonne Misando In the effort of protecting migrant and displaced children affected by climate change, International Organization for Migration (IOM) has renewed its partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The partnership was formalized during the 29th UN Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP29), and aims to address the unique vulnerabilities faced by […]
A recent UNICEF report reveals that 181 million children under five, or 1 in 4 globally, suffer from severe food poverty. This makes them vulnerable to wasting, a critical form of malnutrition that threatens their survival, growth, and development. The report, titled “Child Food Poverty: Nutrition Deprivation in Early Childhood,” analyzes the causes and effects […]
Huku mauaji ya kimbari yakiendelea kuzidi kwenye Ukanda wa Gaza, UNICEF inatoa tahadhari, ikionya dhidi ya kuzingirwa kijeshi na uvamizi wa ardhini huko Rafah kunaweza kuleta matokeo mabaya kwa watoto 600,000 wanaopata hifadhi katika eneo hilo. Tangu kutolewa kwa amri za kuhamishwa mwezi Oktoba, takriban watu milioni 1.2 wamekimbilia kujikinga Rafah, wakiipanua idadi ya watu […]
Globally, at least one million children under 5 years die annually due to severe wasting, making it one of the top threats to child survival according to a new report by UNICEF. This is because severe wasting turns childhood illnesses into killer diseases. Children who are severely wasted succumb to those diseases because their bodies […]
Two-thirds of child-related 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators are off-pace to meet their targets, according to a new UNICEF report released recently. This is worrying as the world is at the halfway mark towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report, Progress on Children’s Well-Being: Centring child rights in the 2030 Agenda warns […]
To help properly document violence against children, UNICEF has developed the International Classification of Violence against Children (ICVAC) with inputs from over 200 experts from national statistical offices, academia, and international organizations. This, the agency says, will help combat lack of available and comparable data that covers the many complex forms of violence which have […]
A new report by UNICEF and WHO indicates that girls are nearly twice as likely as boys to bear the responsibility of fetching water for households and spend more time doing it each day, The report Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) 2000-2022: Special focus on gender shows that globally, 1.8 billion people […]
Hedhi ni mchakato wa kawaida katika maisha ya kila mwanamke, lakini mara nyingi hufunikwa na usiri na aibu. Takriban wanawake na wasichana milioni 9.3 nchini Kenya hupata hedhi. Mara nyingi wasichana waliofikisha umri wa kubalighi hutafuta majibu kuhusu afya yao ya hedhi ila mara nyingi huambulia patupu. Ili kukabiliana na changamoto hii, Unicef imezindua […]
UNICEF has launched the world’s first-period tracker app for girls, Co-created with girls in Kenya. This Oky-Kenya app aims to help girls take control of their periods and their lives by providing information about menstruation in a fun, creative and positive way. The app, which first went live on the Google play store on March […]
More than one billion adolescent girls and women suffer from undernutrition making them underweight and short for their age according to a new report by UNICEF. The report indicates that prevalence of anaemia remains high and unabated at 30 percent, and more than two-thirds of girls and women or 69 percent suffer from micronutrient deficiencies. […]