One of the major challenges to ensuring respect for children’s rights is the absence of adequate systems for monitoring implementation and assessing progress. In recent years, institutions have sought to develop the methodologies and tools for measuring a

The 2012 edition of the Child Development Index highlights the impressive progress the world has made in reducing child mortality and ensuring millions more children go to school. At the same time it warns of the impact of the failure to tackle child unde

The world has enough food for everyone, but millions of children face a life sentence of hunger and malnutrition – the hidden reason so many die. A hidden malnutrition crisis is affecting one third of children in the developing world, impairing their deve

Undernutrition is the underlying cause of more than a third of children’s deaths – 2.3 million in 2011. Around 170 million children under five are stunted – and denied the chance to fulfil their potential. Recent international attention on this hidden cri

Malnutrition is an underlying cause in more than a third of children’s deaths – 2.6 million a year. But it is not always recognised or recorded on death certificates, which is in part why it has not been effectively addressed. For those children who survi

'A Fair Chance at Life' draws attention to one of the most pressing development challenges of our age –the toll of preventable child deaths in the world’s poorest countries, which in 2008 claimed nearly 9 million lives. This is a scandalous waste of human

The G20 urgently needs to agree steps to achieve a broad-based recovery from the global economic crisis. Save the Children is calling on G20 countries to acknowledge their collective responsibility by disbursing the funds they have committed, demonstratin

This paper aims to understand the inequalities in child survival in the developing world. It looks at the disparities in under-five mortality in 65 low- and middle-income countries covering the period of 1990 to 2008 using data from the Demographic and Ho