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The world is facing a red alert for children’s health: Vaccination coverage dropped sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving millions more children unprotected against some of childhood’s most...

As the pandemic forced governments to improvise responses, UN Women moved quickly to collect data on how COVID-19 was impacting women and men to inform decision-making. Since March 2020, rapid gender...

Launched in 2019, the #Youth4Disarmament (Y4D) initiative of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) seeks to engage, educate and empower young people to facilitate their meaningful...

This guidance aims to improve the availability, quality, and comparability of statistics on children. It provides information about the data sources, definitions, standards, and methods used in the...

This follow-up research builds on the findings of a 2021 study to try to determine the broader and more permanent impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children affected by armed conflict, and on those...

Undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies and anaemia amplify gender inequalities by lowering learning potential, wages and life opportunities for adolescent girls and women, weakening their immunity...

This publication is a supporting annex to the 2020 Annual Report on the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), focusing specifically on the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic and the agency's...

This is the annual report submitted to the General Assembly by the Committee on the Rights of the Child on its Seventy-eighth (14 May–1 June 2018), Seventy-ninth (17 September–5 October 2018)...

This is the annual report submitted to the General Assembly by the Committee on the Rights of the Child on its Seventy-second (17 May–3 June 2016), Seventy-third (13–30 September 2016), Seventy-fourth...

This is the annual report submitted to the General Assembly by the Committee on the Rights of the Child on its Eighty-fifth (14 September–1 October 2020), Eighty-sixth (18 January–5 February 2021)...

The Plan of Action provides methodological guidance to develop a comprehensive human rights education strategy for young people at the national level that supports youth empowerment, participation and...

The Plan of Action provides methodological guidance to develop a comprehensive human rights education strategy for young people at the national level that supports youth empowerment, participation and...

As recognised in the Incheon Declaration, the achievement of SDG 4 is dependent on opportunities and challenges posed by technology, a relationship that was strengthened by the onset of the COVID-19...