Highlights Adolescents in South Asia face numerous challenges in accessing health, education, water and sanitation, child protection and social protection services. Girls are further burdened by...
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Highlights Adolescents in South Asia face numerous challenges in accessing health, education, water and sanitation, child protection and social protection services. Girls are further burdened by...
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HIGHLIGHTS In 2023, South Asia experienced natural disasters, political crises, public health emergencies and conflicts. Earthquakes hit Afghanistan and Nepal, requiring emergency responses. Three...
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Appeal highlights Approximately 80 million people, including more than 35 million children, are projected to need humanitarian assistance in South Asia in 2024 due to sudden-onset, cyclical and...
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UNICEF and partners call for greater investment for 170 million adolescent girls living in South Asia, many of whom are out of school, married too young and undernourished KATHMANDU/ NEW DELHI, 11...
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Despite progress, South Asia has over one third of the world’s stunted children (nearly 54 million) and over 25 million children suffer from wasting. KATHMANDU, Nepal, 18 September 2023: UNICEF today...
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HIGHLIGHTS UNICEF South Asia supports country offices to ensure a robust regional response for children facing humanitarian emergencies. The Regional Office is working with all eight country offices...
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New WHO and UNICEF data show immunization coverage is now higher than 2019 levels in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, and the Maldives NEW DELHI/ KATHMANDU, 18 July 2023 – Immunization services...
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More than 1 in 4 children under 5 years is unregistered in South Asia, according to latest data KATHMANDU/ DHAKA, 6 June 2023 – More than 100 civil registration professionals from Bangladesh, Bhutan,...
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South Asia is the region with the highest number of child brides, accounting for 45 per cent of the global total. Recent decades have seen remarkable progress in reducing child marriage in this...
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For every child, vaccination Immunization is one of humanity’s most remarkable success stories. It has saved countless lives. Many more lives will be saved if the goals of the Immunization Agenda...
Through the timely distribution of vaccines and a strengthened cold chain system Mongar, Bhutan- For Tshering Penjor, a father of three, getting his children vaccinated is a responsibility he takes...
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Highlights: During 2022, the region was hit with a series of natural disasters and extreme weather events, as well as political and economic crises. 7.2 million people were affected by the worst...
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Policymakers and experts highlight the rising needs of children and families in South Asia brought on by COVID-19, climate disasters and economic shocks KATHMANDU, 24 February 2023 – Policymakers,...
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Investing in children will reap long-term economic and social benefits for South Asia George Laryea-Adjei, UNICEF South Asia The COVID-19 crisis has sent shock waves across the region, upending...
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HIGHLIGHTS Well over 100 million people, including more than 50 million children are projected to need humanitarian assistance in South Asia due to climate-induced natural disasters, economic and...
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The financing for Early Childhood Education (ECE) is quite low. While countries are investing in early years’ education, the contributions are relatively small, inconsistent, and unsustainable...
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New UN report reveals that climate pledges by countries in the Asia-Pacific are off track with the 1.5°C pathway As typhoons, floods, heatwaves and droughts in the Asia-Pacific region highlight the...
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Where there is no water, there is no education, no health, no dignity, no life! Nicole Klaesener-Metzner, UNICEF South Asia Water is the source of life. In many countries, safe water is available in...
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Highlights The emergence and spread of the omicron variant constituted a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Asia; while the omicron peak passed by mid-April, UNICEF continues to monitor...
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Regional forum reinforces collaboration between prominent faith leaders and UNICEF on challenges faced by children and youth in the region KATHMANDU, 10 May 2022 - South Asia is home to most of the...