New York, Jun 5th, 2010  - In a vast field, a sinewy, dark-skinned man bends at the waist, slicing stalks of wheat with a small machete. In a village, a mother gently places her infant son, slung in a piece of blue fabric, onto a vegetable scale housed in a makeshift clinic.On the ground, three pairs of nimble hands sort through a pile of turnips in silence. Two girls walk to school. A baby cries. A mother laughs.These images are intercut with startling statistics: 48 percent of Bengali children under five are malnourished. One-third of the country's child morality is a direct result of severe malnourishment. Malnourished mothers give birth to malnourished children. The cycle continues....

New York, 4th June 2010 - A lack of skilled attendants at birth accounts for two million preventable maternal deaths, stillbirths and newborn deaths each year, according to the newly released Countdown to 2015 Decade Report (2000-2010).The report shows that nearly 50 percent of women in the 68 countries carefully tracked in the Countdown report —most of which are in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia— still give birth without the aid of a trained midwife, nurse, doctor, or other skilled birth attendant.Only 10 of the 68 Countdown countries have increased the rate of skilled care at childbirth by at least 10 percent since 1990.Eleven countries made no progress, according Countdown to 2015,...

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Barcelone, 1er juin 2010 – Le prestigieux journal de recherche médicale The Lancet a récemment publié de nouvelles données encourageantes sur les progrès effectués dans le sens de l’Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement 4, qui appelle à une réduction de 2/3 du taux de mortalité infantile d’ici à 2015. La publication évaluait les niveaux et tendances en matière de mortalité infantile dans  187 pays entre 1987 et 2010 pour déterminer si les progrès s’étaient accélérés en ce qui concerne l’OMD 4. Les conclusions ont permis de révéler que la mortalité des enfants de moins de 5 ans dans le monde a chuté, passant de 11,9 millions de décès en 1990...

26th May 2010 - In addition to banning the use of child soldiers, the optional protocols call for an end to sexual exploitation of children through trafficking, child prostitution, and child pornography. Marta Santos Pais, special representative of the secretary-general for violence against children, explains that progress has been made in the decade since the passage of the Optional Protocols, but there is more work to be done. Citing the statistic of 115 million children that are currently involved in hazardous, exploitative work, Pais says that the universal ratification of the protocol will "establish the campaign as a legal imperative" and "change the mindset concerning the exploitati...

25th May 2010, New York – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake and other child-rights advocates came together at UNICEF headquarters in New York this morning, calling for all countries to take extra steps aimed at protecting children from violence and exploitation. Ten years ago, the UN General Assembly adopted two Optional Protocols supplementing the wide-ranging human rights protections of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, or CRC. The protocols offer additional protection for children who are vulnerable to armed conflict, or to being sold or exploited for purposes of prostitution or pornography Today’s UNICEF House panel was organized to c...