Nutrition should be a life-skill for our kids
A child today does not learn about food first from a classroom, a parent, or even a textbook.
A child today does not learn about food first from a classroom, a parent, or even a textbook.
More than 700 students of schools, colleges and universities gathered to participate in a 'Youth Conclave on Climate Action' organised by UNICEF to sensitise young people who would face the worst effects of climate change.
The initiative aims to advance socio-economic empowerment, preserve traditional knowledge systems, and ensure greater inclusion of tribal communities in the state’s developmental landscape.
A recent UNICEF report titled “Feeding Profit: How Food Environments are Failing Children” revealed very disturbing facts.
India prohibits Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) under strong laws like the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, yet ignores the alarming issue of children accessing adult pornography and being exposed to it at a very young age ~ a serious legal and moral gap.
This is to ensure that policies, social protection schemes, and programs are inclusive and relevant to the needs and aspirations of children and adolescents.
"The numbers we are seeing this year are quite high and unless urgent measures are taken, thousands of children are at risk of dying," the UNICEF Representative Angela Kearney said in a statement issued in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
Unicef estimates that $3.5 million will be needed to respond to the needs of the affected people.
In low- and middle-income countries, learning losses to school closures have left up to 70 per cent of 10-year-olds unable to read or understand a simple text, up from 53 per cent pre-pandemic, the report said.
The 100 million vaccines delivered so far also include over 50 million doses that Unicef has delivered to Bangladesh under the COVAX facility, which is the WHO-led initiative for equitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines around the world.
