Children

DRIVER: 65% of children entering primary schools today will ultimately work in new job types and functions that currently don't exist. And, the pressure to perform and be tech savvy will only increase inexorably. Discover how your children's early lives will change and how you can help them live fruitful and happy lives into adulthood.

[New] If any proposed scheme is going to require a child to have been living in Ireland for a certain period, it is essential that children have a means of registering their residency.
[New] Indigenous children, which includes Traveller children, are particularly at risk of experiencing serious discrimination in accessing their rights, including in education, contrary to Article 2 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
[New] Global funding for education is expected to decrease by 12% by 2022 - meaning poor countries will face even more challenges in providing all children with a quality and inclusive education, unless we act now.
[New] Children are at particular risk and experience a wide range of rights abuses in global supply chains, including child labor, environmental harm, lack of health and safety measures, and labor rights violations against their parents.
[New] Under Biden's plan, families could get back as a tax credit as much as half of their spending on child care for children under age 13, up to $4,000 for a single child and $8,000 for two or more children.
[New] If fertility continues to drop from its current rate of 1.6 children per woman to a projected 1.3, China's population would be reduced by about 50% by the end of this century.
[New] The University of Oxford announced Saturday it will launch a new trial to test the COVID-19 vaccine it has developed in partnership with AstraZeneca on children between the ages of six and 17.
[New] El-Said pointed to the goals of Egypt 2030 vision, explaining that the total fertility rate in 2017 was an average of 3.4 children per woman, and the average moderate scenario target was to reach 2.4 children per woman in 2032 to and 1.9 children per woman in 2052.
[New] More than half of the world's refugee populations are children (below the age of 18) and many will spend their entire childhoods in countries of asylum.
[New] More than 2 million Yemeni children under the age of five are expected to endure acute malnutrition in 2021.
[New] With governments around the world rapidly developing and implementing COVID-19 management plans with cascading effects on children and their futures, being a voice for children has never been more important.
[New] Government's have an important role to play if the world is to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of ending abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against children by 2030.
More than 10 airlines are expected to sign agreements with the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) to support its 'Humanitarian Airfreight Initiative', which will also act as a global logistics preparedness mechanism for future humanitarian and health crises.
Because of population growth in regions where child marriage is more prevalent, the total number of child marriages is projected to increase by 2030.
The University of Oxford plans to test its COVID-19 vaccine in children for the first time, becoming the latest vaccine developer to assess whether its coronavirus shot is effective in young people.
Although other countries such as India and Malaysia also expect a baby boom due to stay-at-home measures, some experts say that a baby boom is unlikely to happen during the COVID-19 crisis.
Britain's University of Oxford said Saturday it will test the impact of its Covid-19 vaccine on children, becoming the first developer to trial whether its coronavirus shot is effective in young people.
About 400,000 children under the age of five are in danger of dying of acute malnutrition in war-torn and impoverished Yemen.
In the United States, the top two occupations at risk for developing asthma are child care and nursing, likely due to the routine use of bleach in daycare centers and hospitals.
Millions of children in Asia are at risk from falling behind in their studies due to school closures, with unequal access to the internet hurting poorer children the most.
The situation in Yemen is nuanced and complicated, and that black and white terrorist designations will only worsen what is already the world's most devastating humanitarian crisis that the United Nations says has killed more than 230,000 people in recent years, including thousands of children.
Child labour, which, according to the International Labor Organization, is widespread in African agriculture, occurs largely on family farms and is defined as children doing work when too young or work that endangers them.

Last updated: 25 February 2021

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