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Press release
18 September 2023

Two-thirds of global goals for children’s rights and well-being off-pace to meet 2030 target - UNICEF

NEW YORK, 18 September 2023 – At the halfway mark towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), two-thirds of child-related indicators are off-pace to meet their targets, according to a new UNICEF report released today. Progress on Children's Well-Being: Centring child rights in the 2030 Agenda &nbsp...
Press release
14 August 2023

International Youth Day in China: Engaging youth for a green and sustainable future for all

BEIJING, China, 12 August 2023 – In observance of today’s International Youth Day, the United Nations Theme Group on Youth (UNTGY) in China wraps up a four-day celebration of the occasion, recognizing the influential role of young people in shaping a green future. The theme of this year’s International Youth Day i...
Report
16 June 2023

HOPE for Every Child

UNICEF and the Government of the People’s Republic of China have a long-term relationship in China, and a promising one in partner nations, that promotes the rights of children everywhere. In addition to implementing eight successive country programmes of cooperation within the country, UNICEF and the Government o...
Press release
31 March 2023

UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Karin Hulshof calls for strengthened partnerships for children at the Boao Forum for Asia annual conference

BOAO, China, 31 March 2023 – UNICEF reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening its partnership with China in the promotion of the rights of every child, including the right to inclusive and equitable quality education during UNICEF Deputy Executive Director for Partnerships Karin Hulshof’s visit to Boao in souther...
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14 October 2021

ECDI2030 – Early Childhood Development Index 2030

Early moments matter. Children who receive good health, adequate nutrition, early stimulation, learning opportunities, care and protection in initial years of life tend to have better cognitive, language, and psychosocial development. Neuroscientists indicated that the environment where a young child grows during the early childhood period is critical in shaping the development and function of brain. Economists have also demonstrated that the ben...
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01 November 2019

Working towards the Sustainable Development Goals for children in China

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are a UN initiative, formally adopted by Member States at the UN General Assembly on 25 September 2015. The SDGs include 17 Goals and 169 targets over a period of 15 years (from 2016-2030), with the aim to address the global challenges we face, including those related to pov...
Report
22 March 2019

A Post-2015 World Fit for Children

Key Messages There is much to celebrate for children in the goals and targets proposed by the Open Working Group, which have significantly built on the MDGs. Explicit targets on reducing inequality, ending violence against children and combating child poverty are major steps forward. This progress for children's r...
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22 March 2019

Proposal for Sustainable Development Goals

INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPOSAL OF THE OPEN WORKING GROUP FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS The Rio+20 outcome document, The future we want, inter alia, set out a mandate to establish an Open Working Group to develop a set of stainable development goals for consideration and appropriate action by the General Assembly...
Report
18 March 2019

Putting Children First

China achieved the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 14 years ahead of the 2015 target; by lifting more than 600 million people out of poverty, it reduced the incidence of poverty by half. China also made impressive progress on health and education goals, delivering gains for children. Alongside economic gro...
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05 March 2019

Our mandate

UNICEF has the mandate to safeguard the rights of all children in China. That mandate is rooted in the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) , which sets out universal and indivisible rights that apply to every child, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by world lead...
Press release
14 June 2018

Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director High-Level Symposium: Belt & Road Initiative and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Excellencies, ambassadors, honoured guests, ladies and gentlemen. The vision of the Belt and Road Initiative is also a vision for children. That is because China's dramatic progress over the last two decades has also benefitted children: the children who are among the 800 million people lifted out of poverty since 1978, and the children who have…
Blog post
22 August 2017

700 million views on SDGs in China during the #Imagine2030 youth campaign

In September 2015, at the launch of the 17  Sustainable Development Goals , Ban Ki-Moon, then UN Secretary General, announced that the "torchbearers of the SDGs" are young people. A recently completed innovative  #Imagine2030  campaign in China demonstrated that, in China, at least, his vision can b...