UNICEF works with governments and other partners to address the impacts of poverty on children and to mitigate poverty-related risks to their health, education and well-being. A look at recent and ...

In a new report, UNICEF examines the status, trends, inequities and drivers of child food poverty in early childhood — and how some countries are successfully addressing it. A mother feeds her ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's child poverty rate could hit 70% in the first quarter of the year unless there is a change in course, UNICEF warned in a report on Tuesday, reflecting how high ...

Over 89 percent of children in Jigawa State are living in multi-dimensional poverty, with 85.6 percent facing monetary ...

Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the economic impact of the conflict have thrown an additional 4 million children into poverty across Eastern Europe and Central Asia -- an almost 20 percent ...

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LONDON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Child income poverty rates in the United Kingdom were the highest among the world's richest countries, a report by U.N. children's agency UNICEF said, ranking bottom of the ...

More than 19 per cent of children worldwide live in extreme poverty, surviving on under $3 a day, according to a new UNICEF report. Nearly 90 per cent of those children are in Sub-Saharan Africa and ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has lamented that women and children are most affected by poverty. The UN agency said this has affected the rights of children to education, and nutrition ...

Millions of kids around the world are getting very little nutrition. In parts of East Africa, babies are fed some breast milk and a bit of porridge, in Yemen, a paste with flour and water, and in ...