... ago, I launched the UN's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health. Our various partners pledged $40 billion. For ... offer women the means to plan their pregnancies, and to bear children safely. This freedom is an integral part of women's dignity. ...
... just because I am a woman. The evidence is clear. Women and children are the engines that drive our families and our communities, our ... Development Goals. If mothers, infants and children are to be healthy they need to be adequately nourished. One third of ...
... as those affected by conflict, which are home to half of all children lacking education. But we must do more – much more. Fifty-seven million children are still denied an education. Millions more need better schooling. ...
... speaks volumes: less than fifty-five per cent of school-age children in developing countries attend secondary school. The ... documents encouraging progress on many fronts. More children are getting into school, and staying in school, than ever before. ...
... are disproportionately affected, and nearly half a million children are suffering severe acute malnutrition. Even if they survive, this ... prices are rising, animals are dying, and almost one million children under the age of 5 will be acutely malnourished this year. Yemen is ...
... We must meet our obligations to the world's women and children. We must do so not just to achieve MDG 5. We must do so because ... two and half days there meeting and talking with women and children who have found refuge in camps after their homes were destroyed. ...
... Yet an estimated 781,000 people a year, most of them young children, still die from this preventable and treatable disease. The costs can ... such resistance. Malaria is a leading killer of children under five years of age. Success in this fight is crucial to ...
... my visit, through my brief interaction mingling with the children they will have a small sense of inspiration. In fact, I was inspired ... I hope you always remember the plight of the millions of children worldwide who do not have the same privilege as you students may have. ...
... to give hope to the millions of Syrian women, men and children who have been forced from their homes and their communities. I ... of conflict, I was humbled and inspired to see that Syrian children are still singing songs, playing games and looking forward to better ...
... December 2017 and 10 January 2018, of whom at least 30 were children. Rockets fired by armed opposition groups in Eastern Ghouta into ... an IDP camp in Khwin village, south of Idlib, killing three children and their mother, according to OHCHR reports. On 17 December ten ...
