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Gender Gap Closing but Challenges Persist While the global Gender Gap in school enrolment is narrowing, adolescent girls continue to face serious obstacles in their progress along the education continuum. According to recent data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), drop-out rates remain...

Evolution in approaches to improve access to education for children living in urban slums ABSTRACT: Poverty is urbanizing. After 2008, more people live in urban than rural areas of the world. While the global number of poor is on the decline, an increasing number of people live in urban slums...

This is a TedTalk with founder of a Canadian charity in charge of supporting women in developing countries. She talks about her experience interviewing women and solutions at hand. ...

A briefing note from the World Bank Group and UNICEF – finds that children in developing countries are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty. Highlights Ending Extreme Poverty: A Focus on Children – a briefing note from the World Bank Group and UNICEF – finds that children...

This video explains the water crisis and the importance of water security. It explains how water can affect all other SDGs. ...

Child poverty and well-being is a holistic overview of the approaches to poverty pertaining to individuals less than the age of 18. With descriptions of UN goals and perspectives of a "rights-based" approach, capability approach, and human development approach. Through an aggregate of these three...

A child actor in the context of a social experiment illustrates the struggle that millions of children living in poverty face everyday. They are ignored, pushed aside and deprived of everything they need to thrive. ...

This study, conducted by both UNICEF and the World Bank Group, found that there are almost 385 million children globally living in extreme poverty conditions. It also noted that children are disproportionately affected - in fact, children made up one third of the sample population examined in this...