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Every Child Counts: Using gender data to drive results for children
Gender-disaggregated data on children’s first two decades in life enables us to assess whether we are achieving equal outcomes for boys and girls. This data is crucial in highlighting progress, but also for identifying gaps and areas where increased effor
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Hidden in Plain Sight: A statistical analysis of violence against children
Released as part of UNICEF’s #ENDviolence global initiative, this report presents aggregated data from a number of internationally comparable survey programmes. Drawing on data from 190 countries, it represents the largest compilation of statistics to dat
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Understanding the Scale of Child Marriage: A user guide by Girls not Brides
Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of civil society organisations working to address child marriage. This user guide is intended to both present and clarify a range of commonly used statistics to discuss the scale of child marriage. It will help the
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Global Statistics on Children’s Protection from Violence, Exploitation and Abuse
This brochure, produced by UNICEF, summarizes some of the main global monitoring activities in which UNICEF has played a lead role. This includes data collection and analysis on violence against children. This brochure is a quick introduction to some of U
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Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Data and Trends
This document is a "wall chart" that accompanys the full Population Reference Bureau report titled: Ending Femal Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Lessons from a decade of progress. This wall chart provides statistical data with graphs and charts for visualizi
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The State of the World's Children 2013: Children with disabilities
UNICEF's 2013 edition of The State of the World’s Children is dedicated to the situation of children with disabilities- some of the most invisible and marginalized people in the world. The report examines the barriers – from inaccessible buildings to dism
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Changing Levels and Trends in Mortality: The role of patterns of death by cause
The potential to live a long and healthy life is a fundamental aspect of human development. The second part of the twentieth century witnessed enormous progress in improving health and survival around the world. Life expectancy at birth for the world popu
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Towards an AIDS free generation: Children and AIDS- UNICEF Sixth Stocktaking Report, 2013
The sixth edition of the Children and AIDS Stocktaking Report reflects the progress made on the children and AIDS agenda, and underscores how the world is closer than ever to realizing the promise of an AIDS-free generation. This report is part of the ser
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Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A statistical overview and exploration of the dynamics of change
A new report from UNICEF analyses prevalence and trends in female genital mutilation/cutting in 29 countries. Drawing on data from more than 70 nationally representative surveys over a 20-year period, the report finds that the practice has declined in a n
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Barnfattigdom i Sverige. Årsrapport 2013
According to Save the Children Sweden's (SCS) latest report on child poverty in Sweden, 232,000 children lived below the poverty line in 2011 (12,1%), which constitutes a decrease of 0.6 percentage points compared to a year earlier (10,000 fewer children)
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Street Children: A Mapping & Gapping Review of the Literature 2000 to 2010
This paper presents a unique Literature Review of international research studies about street children published during the decade from 2000 to 2010. Studies have been collected and mapped into 12 thematic sections, drawing on more than 400 papers, chapte
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Global Education Digest 2011: Comparing education statistics across the world
Produced by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), the 2011 Global Education Digest (GED) presents a wide range of indicators on the extent to which girls and boys are enrolling and completing secondary education. It describes trends in participation/