... the provision of universal primary education, ensured that children and youth continued their education in post-conflict and post-disaster ... numbers have fallen, they remain high. In 2016, 263 million children and adolescents – one of every five -- were out of school. ...
... women and the work of the United Nations to help women and children worldwide. So I deeply thank the organizers for dedicating ... the United Nations to stop the needless deaths of women and children. My awareness of this cause did not start when I read a policy ...
... displaced people there are today. These men, women and children have been through harrowing experiences that should haunt humanity’s ... Syrians who desperately need help. Six million of them are children. I have met these refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Greece. ...
... in more than 125 countries. Every day, at least a thousand children were paralyzed by the disease. Since then, Rotary International joined ... and implementing the global strategy for women’s and children’s health. I have made it publicly know in January this year that ...
... and new HIV medications and diagnostics, especially for children, to make them more affordable, accessible and appropriate for use in ... of HIV medications and specific diagnostic tools for children, as a contribution to the “Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS” ...
... important gathering. The world is reducing deaths of children under the age of five faster than at any time in the past two decades. Each day, some 17,000 more children survive. Deaths of mothers have been cut by almost half since 1990. ...
... under five dies of preventable causes. And nearly 3 million children under 5 and pregnant or lactating women are acutely malnourished. Nearly half of all children aged between six months and 5 years old are chronically malnourished ...
... and calamity. These individuals –overwhelmingly women and children –subsist on the very margins of society in places like Somalia, the ... mother like Middy Omara in Northern Uganda to leave her children in a safe place so she can cultivate her fields and feed her family. ...
... Unless we act now, by 2030, an estimated 825 million children are expected to leave school without secondary level education. ... and transform education and learning systems to provide all children and young people with quality learning opportunities while countering ...
... salt iodization. Since the historic World Summit for Children in 1990, a tremendously effective public-private-UN partnership has ... now protected from brain damage, and hundreds of millions of children are performing better in school. China provides a splendid example ...
