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The failure of cities to keep up with rapidly growing populations has led to larger inequalities among millions of children worldwide UNICEF revealed today in its State of the World’s Children 2012 report, Children in an Urban World.
UNICEF’s Humanitarian Action for Children 2012 describes the daily
situation of some of the world’s most vulnerable children and women in
more than 25 countries and territories beset by emergencies and crisis.
The chapters include summaries of the key humanitarian challenges and
the results of the organization’s interventions in 2011, as well as plans and
associated funding requests for the coming year. The document also lays
out the vital support to country operations provided by the seven UNICEF
regional offices.
Two years after the 12 January 2010 earthquake, the scars
of disaster are still visible on the infrastructure, institutions
and social systems of Haïti. They are also apparent on the
bodies and in the minds of children, parents and caregivers.
But as the second anniversary of this calamitous
event (deemed the most destructive in recent decades)
passes, there is also clear evidence of healing - and in
some cases, of not just recovery, but meaningful and positive
change that holds the key to realising the transformative
agenda for children.