The European Parliament has opened an important new debate on the ‘EU Children’s Capital’ initiative, which aims to cement children’s rights as a priority policy area.Read more
Under the UK’s two-child limit, families on benefit receive a payment for each of their first two children, but no more for any additional children.Read more
|Comment|author: The Conversation Global Perspectives
A Pan-European alliance which champions laws affecting cities has outlined its commitment to improving the well-being of children and protecting them from violence, poverty and social exclusion.Read more
A UK children’s charity says applications to local authority ‘crisis funds’ for help with beds and bedding for children have more than quadrupled in five years.Read more
A new partnership between the United Nations (UN) and Save the Children has set its sights on improving the lives of children living in city slums.Read more
Over one billion people – including close to 500 million children – live in slums and informal settlements, mostly in cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In 2023, the UN-Habitat Assembly approved a historic...Read more
Thousands of candles have been burning brightly in cities across Switzerland to highlight the plight of children and families living in poverty.Read more
A significant rise in child poverty was seen in 40 of the world’s richest countries between 2014 and 2021, says the UN Children’s Fund’s global research centre, Innocenti.Read more
Providing children with at least one healthy school meal a day is the key if European governments want to properly tackle rising obesity rates, prevent chronic illnesses and reduce social inequalities.Read more
The head of UNICEF, Catherine Russell, has visited three Brazilian cities to highlight the plight of children in poverty and the risks to them posed by climate change and the environment.
More than half of Brazil’s...Read more
New Zealand’s government says the actions it took during the most challenging economic conditions in a generation or more has resulted in a significant drop in children going without regular food.
But there is a warning...Read more
Millions of Americans struggle to afford healthy meals and nutritious food. Known as ‘food insecurity,’ this problem was already rising when Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits – previously called food stamps – were...Read more
|Comment|author: The Conversation Global Perspectives
As a child, Sadiq Khan was one of many youngsters who benefited from him receiving free school meals. Several decades later, as Mayor of London, he has vowed to help children and their families living...Read more