This report forms part of Plan International’s Real Choices, Real Lives longitudinal, qualitative research study — which is following the lives of girls living in nine countries* around the world from their birth (in 2006), until they turn 18 (in 2024…
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Donors making a difference: in the lives of children
This week’s feature shows some of the ways that contributions to WHO are helping save the lives of children, from those caught in an historic drought in the Horn of Africa to those fleeing war in Ukraine.Read also about the battle to end pediatric HIV,…
Horn & Eastern Africa: Emergency Hunger Response Situation Report, 29th July 2022
GENERAL OUTLOOKETHIOPIAIn Ethiopia, nearly 10 million people, including 4.4 million children, are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in drought-impacted areas. (UNICEF, Jul 19 2022)Four consecutive failed rainy seasons have brought on severe dro…
GIEWS Country Brief: Botswana 10-August-2022
FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOTCereal production in 2022 estimated at above-average levelCereal imports forecast to decline to below-average level in 2022/23Food prices increased in 2022, underpinned by elevated global pricesCereal production in 2022 estimated …
Devastating drought leaves girls and women in Somalia facing double crisis of hunger and violence
Girls and women in Somalia say rape and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence are rising as the country faces its worst drought in 40 years.Amid fears that pockets of the country are at risk of famine, the child rights organisation warns that…
The Ugandan Woman Behind TV for the Deaf
When Susan Mujawa Ananda heard a deaf man had been shot and wounded during the global health crisis, she decided to act.His family says he didn’t know there was a curfew.Ananda’s solution to bridging the information gap was to set up an online televisi…