BEING COUNTED MAKES CHILDREN VISIBLE' SAYS UNICEF IN NEW DATA-DRIVEN REPORT

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From: UNNews <UNNews@un.org>
Date: 30 Jan 2014 12:00:00 -0500
Subject: 'BEING COUNTED MAKES CHILDREN VISIBLE' SAYS UNICEF IN NEW
DATA-DRIVEN REPORT
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'BEING COUNTED MAKES CHILDREN VISIBLE' SAYS UNICEF IN NEW DATA-DRIVEN
REPORTNew York, Jan 30 2014 12:00PMUrging greater efforts to identify
and address the gaps that prevent the most disadvantaged of the
world's 2.2 billion children from enjoying their rights, the United
Nations <"http://www.unicef.org/media/media_71841.html">released an
innovative new report today spotlighting the importance of data in
targeting funds and action to reach those who need it most.

"Data have made it possible to save and improve the lives of millions
of children, especially the most deprived," said Tessa Wardlaw, Chief
of UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Data and Analytics Section on the
launch of the agency's new flagship report, <em>The State of the
World's Children 2014 In Numbers: Every Child Counts - Revealing
disparities, advancing children's rights. </em>

"Further progress can only be made if we know which children are the
most neglected, where girls and boys are out of school, where disease
is rampant or where basic sanitation is lacking," she added,
indicating the aim of the <"
http://www.unicef.org/sowc2014/numbers/">report,which highlights the
importance of data in making progress for children and exposing the
unequal access to services and protections that mars the lives of so
many.

Tremendous progress has been made since the Convention on the Rights
of the Child (CRC) was signed in 1989 and in the run up to the
culmination of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015, the UNICEF
report reveal. Among other examples of progress, it shows that due
to improvements in water and sanitation, some 90 million children who
would have died before reaching the age of 5 if child mortality rates
had stuck at their 1990 level have, instead, lived.

Further, improvements in nutrition have led to a 37 per cent drop in
stunting since 1990 and primary school enrolment has increased, even
in the least developed countries: whereas in 1990 only 53 in 100
children in those countries gained school admission, by 2011, the
number had improved to 81 in 100.

Even so, the statistics in the report bear witness to ongoing
violations of children's rights, including the deaths of some 6.6
million children under 5 years of age in 2012 mostly from preventable
causes, in violation of their fundamental right to survive and
develop. Other troubling data show that 15 per cent of the world's
children are performing work that compromises their right to
protection from economic exploitation and infringes on their right to
learn and play.

The report notes that "being counted makes children visible, and this
act of recognition makes it possible to address their needs and
advance their rights." It adds that innovations in data collection,
analysis and dissemination are making it possible to disaggregate data
by such factors as location, wealth, sex and ethnic or disability
status, to include children who have been excluded or overlooked by
broad averages.
The report urges increased investment in innovations that right the
wrong of exclusion.

Data do not, of themselves, change the world, stresses UNICEF. They
make change possible - by identifying needs, supporting advocacy, and
gauging progress. "What matters most is that decision-makers use the
data to make positive change, and that the data are available for
children and communities to use in holding duty-bearers to account,"
the report says. Jan 30 2014 12:00PM
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