News & Commentary
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World Water Day 2013
UNICEF urges all to remember that behind the statistics are the faces of children
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International Consultation on ICT and Children
UNICEF Office of Research (OoR) will be hosting an internal consultation on the UNICEF wide research agenda related to children's use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and the implementation of their rights in this rapidly developing environment. The goal is to capitalize and emulate on the past and current work in this field: OoR study on Child Safety Online, UNICEF Division of Communication's Digital Citizenship Project, Innovation and GRACE initiatives promoting access and empowering girls.
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International Meeting: Championing Children’s Rights
Independent human rights institutions for children play a pivotal role in bridging two very different worlds: that of policymaking, government and politics, and that of children, who often find themselves marginalized and excluded from society, and their views sidelined.
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Child Drowning in LMICs in Asia: Key data, messages and recommendations
Countries covered: Five low and middle income countries in Asia: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China (Beijing and Jiangxi Province), Thailand and Viet Nam. (Data also included from India’s 2005 Million Death Study).
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Drowning: a leading killer of children across parts of Asia - Press release
A new report states that although drowning is a leading killer of children across parts of Asia, highly effective and cost-efficient programs to reduce such drowning deaths are not being sufficiently embraced. "Child Drowning" surveyed four countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand), together with two provinces in China (Beijing and Jiangxi).
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Translating research into action
At UNICEF's Innocenti Research Centre we conduct research on critical issues in the lives of vulnerable children. To help make our research compelling the centre engages in proactive information dissemination, utilising traditional, online and digital media. This section is a repository of all media material produced and distributed by the Centre as well as films, opinion pieces, news reports and feature stories published in mainstream media about the Centre and its work.
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Testing social media from Horizon
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Data from around the globe
An interactive infographic that examines the penetration of the Internet through to its projected growth; the way children and adults use the Internet and the risks they face; and the existing protection frameworks and legal mechanisms with some solutions for the future.
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Events and Conferences May - September 2011
A selection of relevant internal and external meetings and events
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Using social media to report the situation of children in Lybia
How the Lybia crisis is affecting children. James Elder reporting on his recent mission to Lybia. Listen the interview
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Malnutrition - New working paper
Malnutrition - New working paper View the publication
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Social Budget Tracking and Analyses
Similar to sentinel site monitoring, it is possible to also monitor key inputs into the production of child wellbeing, notably those linked to the resources and policies of the public sector. Budget tracking and analyses could serve this function, and at the same time the tools in this area could help to advance budget and policy transparency and public engagement and participation in decisionmaking. Thus, the use of such tools could influence policies - notably resource allocations - directly.