Publications & reports
UNICEF publications play a critical role in fulfilling the organisation's mandate to advocate for the rights of every child everywhere. Every year, UNICEF publishes a number of flagship reports that you will find in this section.
Progress for Children: A World Fit for Children Statistical Review (No. 6)
The sixth issue of Progress for Children reports on the status of
child-specific targets set by world leaders at the May 2002 UN General
Assembly Special Session on Children.
This special edition examines
more than 35 key indicators in the four broad areas identified at the
Special Session as requisite to building ‘A World Fit for Children'.
It
also analyses the Millennium Development Goals and provides information
on the state of child protection.
Formats available:
Progress_for_Children_No_6_revised.pdf Interactive report
20 October 2008
Posted in: Child Protection, Millennium Development Goals, Statistics and data
Progress for Children: A Report Card on Water and Sanitation (No. 5)
Unsafe water and lack of sanitation and adequate hygiene contribute to
the leading killers of children under five, including diarrhoeal
diseases, pneumonia and undernutrition, and have implications for
whether…
20 October 2008
Posted in: Water, environment and sanitation
Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition (No. 4)
Undernutrition contributes to the deaths of about 5.6 million children under five in the developing world each year. It can lead to poor school performance and dropout, it threatens girls' future ability…
20 October 2008
Posted in: Nutrition
Progress For Children: A Report Card on Immunization (No. 3)
Immunisation does not simply raise the chances that children will
resist disease: it virtually guarantees that they will. But millions of
children remain unimmunised, and each year 1.4 million children…
20 October 2008
Posted in: Immunization
Progress For Children: A Report Card on Gender Parity and Primary Education (No.2)
Girls' education has been expanding all over the world, but not fast
enough to ensure a basic education for millions of children still out
of school or to ensure the progress of countries that lag behind.…
Progress For Children: A Child Survival Report Card (No.1)
This first issue of Progress For Children addresses the child survival Millennium Development Goal, graphically depicting the world's advances in the lead up to 2015. It states that…
20 October 2008
Posted in: Integrated early childhood development
State of the World’s Children 2007
On its 60th anniversary, UNICEF launched a report that says gender equality is critical to child survival and development. "The lives of women are inextricably linked to the well-being of children," said…
21 October 2008
Posted in: Children’s Rights
State of the World's Children 2008
UNICEF's 2008 SOWC report says community health programmes reduce child mortality. Strategies that can help reduce the number of children who die before their fifth birthday were highlighted this…
21 October 2008
Posted in: Children’s Rights, Health, Integrated early childhood development
Innocenti Report Card No. 1: A League Table of Child Poverty in Rich Nations
This new report on child poverty in the world’s wealthiest nations, concludes that one in six of the rich world’s children is poor - a total of 47 million. The new research, published in the first UNICEF Innocenti…
21 October 2008
Posted in: Children’s Rights, New Zealand children, Poverty
Innocenti Report Card No. 2: A League Table of Child Deaths by Injury in Rich Nations
In every single industrialized country, injury has now become the leading killer of children between the ages of 1 and 14. Taken together, traffic accidents, intentional injuries, drownings, falls, fires,…
21 October 2008
Posted in: Children’s Rights, New Zealand children, Poverty
