Being an Indian and below 5 years of age is a rather dangerous prospect right now. The odds seem to be piling up against Indian toddlers — a recent Unicef report has claimed that 16.55 lakh below-5 ki

With drought parching farms in the United States and near the Black Sea, weak monsoon rains in India and insidious hunger in Africa's Sahel region, the world could be headed towards another food crisi

Children living in urban India are equally vulnerable to poverty as their rural counterparts. A new Indian specific statistics presented at the launch of the Unicef’s flagship publication,Children in

UNICEF is for the first time publicizing what drugmakers charge it for vaccines, as the world's biggest buyer of lifesaving immunizations aims to spark price competition in the face of rising costs.

New Delhi: Home to 20 per cent of the world's adolescent population, India has one of the worst track records in their health and education parameters, according to a new report by the UNCIEF.

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In a bid to enhance the quality of education in civic-run schools in the city, United Nations international children's emergency fund (Unicef) on Tuesday granted Rs 9 crore to the Brihanmumbai municip

Fewer children are dying before they reach their fifth birthday with the total number of under-five deaths falling by one third in the past two decades, the Unicef has said.

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