Breastfeeding babies immediately after birth can prevent a significant number of neonatal deaths in developing countries, said UNICEF today at the start of World Breastfeeding.

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UNICEF the Report Card 7: Child Poverty in Perspective

The Report focuses on the well-being of children and young people in the world´s advanced economies and provides the first comprehensive assessment. Media materials and copies of the Report Card in English, French, Spanish and Italian are available from the Centre´s Innocenti Newsroom:

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UNICEF: Early childhood care key to gender equality

UNICEF called on governments and others committed to universal education and gender equality to remember that the earliest years are the most critical for children's development. If many of the Millennium Development Goals are to be reached, the children's agency warned, the cycle of negative gender stereotypes must be broken earlier in a child's life rather than later....

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Girls Issues at the 50^th Comission on the Status of Women - February 28-March 10 2006

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