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The Joint Malnutrition Estimates (JME) released by UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank shows there is insufficient progress to reach the 2025 World Health Assembly (WHA) global nutrition targets and only about one-third of all countries are ‘on track’ to halve the number of children affected by stunting by 2030.

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The school has received the silver level in the Rights Respecting School Award from UNICEF

Since 2006 – when Robbie Williams co-founded the concept – Soccer Aid has raised over £75 million to help give children all over the world a chance

Soccer Aid have confirmed that Mauricio Pochettino is their new World XI manager as the Argentine also prepares to take charge of Chelsea ahead of next season

Mauricio Pochettino's latest manager job has been confirmed, but it's not the one everyone was expecting.

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An estimated 640 million girls and women in the world today were married in childhood, according to UNICEF. The prevalence has slightly declined: with one in five young women aged 20 to 24 years being married as children, down from nearly one in four 10 years ago.

India, which has taken proactive steps to reduce neonatal mortality, is likely to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets in this key area by 2030, a top WHO official has said, citing data on the annual rate of reduction for newborn deaths in the country between 2016 and 2021.

Geneva (AFP) - Some 200,000 people have now fled Sudan to escape fighting that erupted in mid-April, the UN said Friday, also warning a factory producing life-saving treatments for malnourished children had burned down.

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