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New study reveals high sugar, salt content in commercial foods marketed for young children in Southeast Asia

Study across 7 countries shows an alarming 72 per cent of snacks and finger foods marketed at children under 3 contain added sugars and...

One in five children in rich countries lives in poverty: UNICEF

United Nations, United States - Sixty-nine million children -- or more than one in five -- live in poverty in the world's 40 richest countries...

For World Pneumonia Day 2023, stakeholder groups, advocates advance fight to #StopPneumoniaTogether 

For World Pneumonia Day 2023, healthcare company MSD in the Philippines mounts a multi-stakeholder media forum titled “Advance the Fight Against Pneumonia,” to engage different sectors to strengthen the call to stop pneumonia together. The...

South Asia worst in world for water scarcity: UN

New Delhi, India - More children in South Asia are struggling due to severe water scarcity made worse by the impacts of climate change than...

Gaza now a ‘graveyard’ for thousands of children: UN

Geneva, Switzerland - The Gaza Strip has become a graveyard for thousands of children, the United Nations said Tuesday, fearing more may die of dehydration. Israel...

120 incubator babies at risk as Israel cuts Gaza fuel—UN

Jerusalem, Undefined—The lives of at least 120 newborn babies on incubators in war-torn Gaza's hospitals are at risk as fuel runs out in the...

Disasters displaced some 43m children

Weather-related disasters forcibly displaced a staggering 43.1 million children across 44 countries over the past six years, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said. That figure...

Children suffer most from disasters

We Filipinos take pride in our resilience or the ability to bounce back from disasters, whether natural or man-made. But what we apparently don’t readily...

Tens of millions of children uprooted by climate disasters: UNICEF

Weather disasters fueled by climate change -- from floods to droughts, storms to wildfires -- sparked 43.1 million child displacements from 2016 to 2021,...

More than 330 mn children still in extreme poverty: UNICEF

Washington, United States - The Covid-19 pandemic caused a sharp slowdown in the fight to end child poverty, with 333 million children still living...

122m more people pushed into hunger since 2019

Over 122 million more people are facing hunger in the world since 2019 due to the pandemic and repeated weather shocks and conflicts, including...

Sudan war drives one million kids from homes—UN

The conflict in Sudan has displaced more than one million children, 270,000 of them in the Darfur region, the UN children’s agency (UNICEF) has...

UNICEF celebrates signing of IRR of RA 11930

Addressing the underlying causes of online abuse is key to prevention UNICEF commends the Philippine Government for signing the Implementing Rules and Regulations of Republic...

Number of child marriages falling too slowly: UNICEF

United Nations, United States - Child marriages are declining -- but at a rate that would not eliminate the practice for another 300 years,...
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