UNICEF outlines eight growing challenges

 

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Topics covered:

• Open letter of UNICEF
• Threats to children’s

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News Flash

The open letter by UNICEF outlines eight growing challenges for the world’s children including prolonged conflicts, pollution and the climate crisis, a decline in mental health, mass migration and population movements, statelessness and online misinformation.

Highlights

• The letter expresses concern that the majority of children will grow up as natives of a digital environment saturated with online misinformation.
• The letter cautions that mental illness among adolescents has been on the rise in the years since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and that depression is now among the leading causes of disability in the young.

According to UNICEF, here are eight reasons why It is worried for the future of world’s children:

1. Children need clean water, clean air and a safe climate
2. One in four children’s are likely to live, and learn, in conflict and disaster zones
3. We must make it OK to talk about mental health
4. Over 30 million children’s have migrated from their place of birth
5. Many thousands of children’s will officially never exist, unless we act
6. Children need twenty-first century skills for a twenty-first century economy
7. Digital footprint of the children’s must be protected
8. They might be the least trusting generation of citizens ever

 

UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), originally known as the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, was created by the United Nations General Assembly on 11 December 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children and mothers in countries that had been devastated by World War II.

The Polish physician Ludwik Rajchman is widely regarded as the founder of UNICEF and observed as its first chairman from 1946 to 1950, when he had to flee the United States in the wake of McCarthyism.

 

Source: The Hindu

 

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