WEBINAR | COVID-19 and Parent and Caregiver Support in Emergencies
Time: 09:00 (EST) | 15:00 (CET) | 16:00 (EAT) | 18:30 (IST) | 21:00 (CST)
Duration: 90 minutes
June 2020
Note to Correspondents: Secretary-General's letter to staff on the plague of racism and Secretary-General's remarks at Town Hall
“The position of the United Nations on racism is crystal clear: this scourge violates the United Nations Charter and debases our core values. Every day, in our work across the world, we strive to do our part to promote inclusion, justice, dignity and combat racism in all its manifestations.”
Countries failing to prevent violence against children, agencies warn
Global status report on preventing violence against children calls for more government action and warns of ‘dramatic impact’ of COVID-19.
Read the news article by the World Health Organization (WHO) (18 June 2020). Downloadable report included.
Launch of the ECPC Global Call to Action in response to COVID-19 for vulnerable children (ECPC Chair)
Saturday, June 20, 2020
Dr. Rima Salah, Chairperson of the Early Childhood Peace Consortium (ECPC) launches the “Global Call to Action in response to COVID-19 for children in fragile and conflict-affected settings: The promise of early childhood development”.
► Read the print version of Dr Salah’s letter of invitation.
Dr. Rima Salah is Former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, Former Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the U.N. mission in Central African Republic and Chad, served on the United Nations High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations, Currently at the Yale Child Study Center.
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The economics of early childhood investments
“By supporting development when children are very young, early childhood development and education programs can complement parental investments and produce large benefits to children, parents, and society.”
Read the report by the Executive Office of the President of the United States (2014).
Early Moments Matter for every child
“What’s the most important thing children have? It’s their brains. And yet, we’re not caring for children’s brains the way we care for their bodies, especially in early childhood, when what we do – or fail to do – has an impact on children’s futures and the futures of their economies and their societies.”
Read the report by UNICEF (2017).
Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course
Prof Maureen M Black, Susan P Walker, Lia C H Fernald, Christopher T Andersen, Ann M DiGirolamo, Chunling Lu, Dana C McCoy, Günther Fink, Yusra R Shawar, Jeremy Shiffman, Amanda E Devercelli, Quentin T Wodon, Emily Vargas-Barón, Sally Grantham-McGregor. (2017). Early childhood development coming of age: Science through the life course. The Lancet. Pages 77-90. doi: org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31389-7
Early estimates of the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study
T Roberton, ED Carter, VB Chou, et al. Early estimates of the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: A modelling study. Lancet Glob Health (2020), published online May 12. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30229-1
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