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Rights in your pocket: Children's Rights

Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights (2017) C1

Yemen: Humanitarian Snapshot - Children’s situation in Yemen (October 2017). Arabic Version

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2017) C1

The document presents a humanitarian snapshot from October 2017 highlighting the dire situation of children in Yemen. Over 11 million Yemeni children needed humanitarian assistance due to the confli ... more

Success Factors for Women’s and Children’s Health

Cambodia, Ministry of Health, PMNCH, WHO, World Bank, AHPSR et al. (2015) C_WHO

Accountability for women’s and children’s health

Flavia Bustreo, Marie-Paule Kieny, Lale Say et al. World Health Organization WHO (2015) C_WHO

Progress Report

Lancet Series on Women’s and Children’s Health in Conflict Settings
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BRANCH Consortium; The Lancet (2021) CC

The Lancet Series on Women’s and Children’s Health in Conflict Settings aims to improve understanding of and address the special requirements of providing sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition service ... more

Inheriting a sustainable world: Atlas on children’s health and the environment

Marie-Noel Bruné Drisse and Fiona Goldizen World Health Organisation (WHO) (2017) C_WHO

This new publication presents the continuing and emerging challenges to children’s environmental health.

SILENT HARM: A report assessing the situation of repatriated children’s psycho-social health

UNICEF Kosovo in cooperation with Kosovo Health Foundation UNICEF (2012)

The principle of “the best interest of the child” should guide decisions by politicians whenever children are affected. This is one of the basic ideas in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Decision makers should assess the consequen ... more

COVID-19 in Malawi: lessons in pandemic preparedness from a tertiary children’s hospital

Chaziya J, Freyne B, Lissauer S et al. (2021) CC

Archives of Disease in Childhood 2021;106:238-240.

Inheriting a sustainable world? Atlas on children’s health and environment.

World Health Organization (WHO) (2018) C_WHO

In 2015, 26% of the deaths of 5.9 million children who died before reaching their fifth birthday could have been prevented through addressing environmental risks – a shocking missed opportunity. The prenatal and early childhood period represents ... more

Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health, 2016-2030
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Flavia Bustreo, Shyama Kuruvilla, Marleen Temmerman et al Every Woman Every Child (2015) C_WHO

The new Global Strategy aims to achieve the highest attainable standard of health for all women, children and adolescents, transform the future and ensure that every newborn, mother and child not only survives, but thrives.

Tracking progress towards universal coverage for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health

Ties Boerma, Jennifer Requejo, Cesar Victora et al. UNICEF; WHO, et al. (2018)

Don’t pollute my future! The impact of the environment on children’s health

World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

In 2015, 5.9 million children under age five died (1). The major causes of child deaths globally are pneumonia, prematurity, intrapartum-related complications, neonatal sepsis, congenital anomalies, diarrhoea, injuries and malaria (2). Most of these ... more

Country profile: Senegal - Women's, Children's and Adolescents Health

Countdown 2030 (2020) C2

Acessed on 01.03.2020

Financing for equity for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health in low- and middleincome countries: A scoping review

Bou-Karroum L., Iaia D.G. , El-Jardali F., et al. PLOS Global Public Health (2024) CC

Over the past few decades, the world has witnessed considerable progress in women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (WCAH) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet deep inequities remain between and within countries. This scoping ... more

Protect the promise: 2022 progress report on the every woman every child global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (2016–2030)

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2022) C_WHO

This global progress report attempts to lay the groundwork for the kind of accelerated action needed. Section 1 presents key data, trends and developments in women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and well-being. That is followed in Secti ... more

Benin: Countdown to 2030, Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health

Early Childhood Development (2019) C1

Protect the Progress: Rise, Refocus, Recover - 2020 Progress Report on the Every Woman Every Child Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030)

UNICEF, World Health Organisation (2020) C_WHO

Conflict, climate crisis and COVID-19 pose great threats to the health of women and children.

Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Nutrition in Bangladesh: Can Building Toilets Affect Children's Growth?

Iffat Mahmud and Nkosinathi Mbuya The World Bank (2016) C1

Survive, Thrive, Transform — Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030)

Joint United Nations Programme on HIVAIDS (UNAIDS) (2018) C1

2018 monitoring report: current status and strategic priorities
The report sets out the status of women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health, and on health systems and social and environmental determinants. Regional dashboards on 16 key ... more