UN warns of “devastating” effect of covid-19, conflict, and climate change on women’s and children’s health

There has been “critical regression” across nearly every major measure of childhood wellbeing since 2019, with increases in food insecurity, hunger, child marriage, risks from intimate partner violence, and adolescent depression and anxiety, the United Nations has warned.1The Protect the Promise report, a collaboration between the World Health Organization; Unicef; the United Nations Population Fund; the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (PMNCH); and Countdown to 2030, has found that the effects of conflict, the covid-19 pandemic, and climate change have converged with “devastating” effects on the prospects for children, young people, and women.Kersti Kaljulaid, former president of Estonia and the United Nations secretary general’s global advocate for every woman every child, said, “This is our wakeup call. Healthier and empowered women, children, and adolescents are the key to achieving a better world. But we cannot move in the right direction—toward a world where the most vulnerable are prioritised…
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