-Down to Earth As many as 23 million children across the world did not get routine vaccines, according to WHO-unicef analysis Several years of progress made in routine immunisation in India has been undone due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). According to an estimate released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and unicef July 15, 2021, as many as 3,038,000 children in India did not receive the first dose of Diptheria-Tetanus-Pertusis...
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School closure: One in three countries not implementing programmes to mitigate learning loss, says report
-PTI/ The New Indian Express At the same time, only one-third of countries are taking steps to measure learning losses in primary and lower second levels, mostly among high-income countries, the survey report stated. NEW DELHI: One in three countries where schools were or are still closed due to the Covid pandemic have not yet implemented remedial programmes to mitigate learning loss, according to a survey. The "Survey on National Education Responses to...
More »Women in many countries face discrimination in registering children at birth warn UNHCR and unicef
-The United Nations Refugee Agency GENEVA / NEW YORK – A joint report released today by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (unicef), shows that in many countries women can face discrimination which obstructs or hinders their ability to register births, exposing their children to the risk of becoming stateless. The latest analysis in the report “Sex Discrimination in Birth Registration” found that such barriers may exist...
More »What a Real Commitment to Making India Child Labour Free Means -Monica Banerjee
-TheWire.in The COVID-19 has increased risks for children, especially those from vulnerable communities. The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed 100 million more into poverty, says a recent UN report. In our own backyard, what about India’s 454 million internal economic migrants, who constitute 37% of the total population? How many of them are youth and women? On June 10, the International Labour Organisation and unicef jointly surmised that 160 million children are in child...
More »'To Tackle COVID In Rural India, Enable At-Home Care, Involve Panchayats, NGOs' -Govindraj Ethiraj
-IndiaSpend.com The best way to arrest the COVID surge in India's villages is to rebuild people's trust in public systems, encourage home care and use simple technologies, say experts Mumbai: The number of COVID-19 cases in India is now slowing down a bit, with around 350,000 cases and fewer than 4,200 deaths every day. We know by now that on both numbers, there is considerable under-counting. The number of cases at a national...
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