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STATE OF THE WORLD'S CHILDREN 2014 -
MAKE EVERY CHILD COUNT - REVEALING DISPARITIES, ADVANCING RIGHTS - UNICEF -
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UNICEF Report:
The approaching
25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and culmination
of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide critical opportunities to
reexamine the commitments the world made to its children, and to reaffirm the
importance of monitoring as a means to identify gaps in implementation and
right the wrong of exclusion.
"Overcoming
exclusion begins with inclusive data. To improve the reach, availability and
reliability of data on the deprivations with which children and their families
contend, the tools of collection and analysis are constantly being modified –
and new ones are being developed. This will require sustained investment and
commitment," the report says.
Reaching all
children requires recognizing and building on the positive strides that have
been made. Some 90 million children who would have died if mortality rates had
stuck at their 1990 level have, instead, lived past the age of 5. However, it
is also necessary to recognize that there is far more work to be done. Some 6.6
million children under 5 years of age died in 2012, mostly from preventable
causes.
Data alone
do not change the world. They enable change by identifying needs and providing
an evidence base for action, investment and accountability. It is our UNICEF
hope that this report will inform dialogue and nurture the action necessary to
honour the commitments to children contained in the Convention on the Rights of
the Child and the MDGs, and the obligations that will be enshrined in the
post-MDG agenda.
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