Halfway to the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals, the world is failing girls. On current trends, the end of child marriage is 300 years away. If nothing changes, by 2030, 110 million young women and girls who should be in classrooms, won’t be. And 340 million women and girls will still endure the […]
Youth Survey launch to coincide with World Mental Health Day CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown: In partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Caribbean Community Secretariat will launch a survey on the mental health and well-being issues experienced by youth across the Region. The launch will coincide with World Mental Health Day, observed internationally on […]
PANAMÁ CITY, April, 25 2022 – In only five years, the complete vaccination schedule for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP3) in Latin America and the Caribbean has dropped from 90 percent in 2015 to 76 percent in 2020, according to data from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and UNICEF. This implies that one in […]
April 21, 2021 – Grenada has been elected to the Executive Board of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). On April 20, 2021, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) elected Grenada, by acclamation, for the three-year term 2022-2024. Grenada secured the only seat available to […]
BRIDGETOWN, 12 March 2021 – A ground-breaking campaign aimed at tackling the troubling issues of childhood obesity and the regional epidemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) was launched Friday by the Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC), in partnership with the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission and UNICEF. Titled “Now […]
Bridgetown, Barbados October 27, 2020 – The CDEMA Regional Training Centre (RTC) in collaboration with UNICEF concluded a series of short online courses in ‘Child Protection in Emergencies’, ‘Education in Emergencies’ and ‘Shock Responsive Social Protection’. The courses were offered between October 14 and 22, 2020 with participants from across the national disaster management mechanisms […]
Bridgetown, Barbados, April 3, 2020 (CDEMA): As the COVID-19 crisis continues to unfold in the region, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and the United Nations Resident Coordinators’ Offices in the Caribbean convened the 2nd meeting of the Caribbean Partner Donor Group on Thursday April 2, 2020. The virtual meeting had representatives from 18 regional […]
The United Nations System in Trinidad and Tobago (UNTT) welcomes the resurgence of the debate on child marriage and reaffirms its support for all efforts to end this practice. Child marriage – defined by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as a formal or informal marital union engaged in by a person under age […]
