The global community has committed to work together to achieve universal health coverage by 2030, as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. Despite this, at least half the world’s population still lack access to essential health services and some 100

Tipping the Balance provides new evidence showing that children are denied their right to health based on the circumstances they grow up in. Children from poorer backgrounds are disproportionately affected by mortality and malnutrition. This steep social

Four years on from the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals, child mortality rates continue to fall, yet big inequalities in child survival persist. Deprived and marginalised children are far less likely to have access to basic healthcare services

In the Prime Minister’s first remarks from Downing Street, he outlined his aspiration for a powerful Britain that is “generous in temper and engaged with the world”.1 In order to fulfil this ambition of reshaping the UK’s role on the world-stage – at the

The pledge to Leave No One Behind within the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) agenda has the potential to revolutionize how the world defines and strives for progress, putting the world’s most deprived and marginalised children first. One of its key cha

This report shows that pneumonia, ‘the forgotten child killer,’ is responsible for the deaths of more children under five than any other disease. It kills two children in this age group every minute—more than malaria, diarrhoea, and measles combined. More

While many legal restrictions have been employed to address child marriage globally, as many as 7.5 million girls are married illegally each year. This has a profound impact on the girl, her family, and society as a whole. Child brides are associated with