... our response. Boko Haram used children in 135 suicide attacks in 2017, a five-fold increase from 2016. The ... community must do more to respond to the plight of children affected by the upheaval in the region, including through support for ...
... 45% of all child deaths. Additionally, around 160 million children worldwide are stunted because of starvation or malnutrition in early ... 53% fewer diarrhea-related deaths and 14% less stunting in children under 5 years old when community-based interventions brought about ...
... deal to look forward to: the miracle of birth, meeting their children, raising them into adulthood. While we may prefer to focus on these ... far beyond the women who are directly affected, extending to children who will be raised by healthy mothers and communities that benefit ...
... – his son and daughter. The ambassador addressed them as children. Of course, they are children, but big children now. After surviving the cruelties and ...
... need life-saving assistance. Tens of millions of them are children and young people -- our next generation already at risk. Yet after ... resilience and greater opportunity and well-being for our children. These great gains are threatened by grave security threats. ...
... before faced a pandemic such as this. More then 4 million children have already died from AIDS before they reach the age of 15. ... is no more time for half-measures. In terms of life lost, children orphaned and the destruction of the social and economic fabric of ...
... people. Every day, it leads to the death of thousands of children, one every two and a half minutes. This problem is not an ... of lack of clean water and sanitation in the field. I saw children die, silently and unnecessarily, from diarrhoea and other diseases ...
... reflecting the importance of creating a space dedicated to children’s education, health, stability and well-being at schools, through ... making societies more resilient and empowered, by reaching children, while benefitting farmers, women and girls, entrepreneurs and ...
... Twenty-seven per cent of those trafficked are children. More than one in four people who should be enjoying their ... the Victims of Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, and the Blue Heart Campaign that supports it. The Fund links the ...
... than 3.8 million people received food assistance; 21,000 children and 10,000 women received treatment for acute malnutrition; 32,000 ... including blankets and warm clothes for winter; 10,000 children were reached with community-based education activities; 450,000 ...
