Publications

The Post-2015 debate is in full swing. UNICEF UK have consulted children and young people to get their views on what they want the world to look like post-2015.

This 2013 UNICEF UK report on child nutrition highlights the vital role that mothers across the world can play in preventing child malnutrition

Unicef UK recommends that the government continues to improve the child poverty measures but not radically change them.

A Briefing from the Alliance for Reform of the Children's Commissioner Children and Families Bill 2nd Reading, 25 February 2013

This discussion pack has been created to help children and young people express their views on what should follow the Millennium Development Goals.

This report compiles evidence on ways of embedding children’s rights into domestic law and policy development processes in 12 countries.

Cities leave hundreds of millions of children excluded from vital services, UNICEF warns in its new report, The State of the World’s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World

For the world’s children and UNICEF UK, 2010 was a year of unprecedented emergencies and extraordinary achievements. It began ominously with the shattering earthquake in Haiti, and continued with Pakistan's devastating floods in July. In total, UNICEF UK helped children caught in emergencies in 24 countries.

Ipsos MORI, UK children, materialism, time, family, inequality, well-being, report card 7, Child well-being in the UK, Spain, Sweden, report

We wanted to find out about child well-being (how happy, healthy and satisfied children are), how children see inequality and materialism.

This report contributes to building an improved understanding of how different intensities of disaster affect children in different contexts and the structures needed to realise the benefits of engaging children.

Climate change is a key development challenge, endangering progress made towards achieving development goals and fulfilling children's rights in vulnerable countries. Immediate action is required to 'adapt' to these changes.

Climate change, and its impacts on natural and human resources, threatens to undermine human development across the globe. Without concerted action, millions of children will be at increased risk from infectious disease, malnutrition, water scarcity, disasters, and the collapse of public services and infrastructure.

Author Andrew O’Hagan visited Namasimba Child Centre in Malawi. Happy Birthday, Dear Happy is a fictional story inspired by the children he met.

UNICEF UK and UNICEF Kenya have produced this case study to highlight the specific challenges for children related to climate change in Kenya; bringing climate models to life with stories from children in different regions.

We know that today’s adult generation will determine, on an unprecedented scale, the world that later generations will inherit. But are we taking this responsibility seriously? This paper discusses emerging thinking on this issue.

This briefing shows how a child rights approach to climate change would take the concerns of intergenerational justice into account and radically transform the policies and commitments of those in power.