Zimbabwe

Demographic Data:

  • Total Population: 15,245,855
  • Population under 15: 41.6%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 57.5 years
  • Human Development Index: 155 out of 188 
  • World Bank Status: Low Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 16.7%
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.1 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 44.6%

Sources: World Bank, UNDP, DHS 2010-11

 

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Matthew Chance, Zahra Ullah, and Laura Smith-Spark - CNN,

There are 200 children and 600 women among an estimated 2,000 people massed along the Bruzgi-Kuznica border crossing separating Belarus from Poland, Belarusian border officials told CNN on Friday. Some of those are only babies or toddlers.

Sanchia Berg - BBC News,

Growing numbers of very vulnerable children in England are being detained in temporary accommodation under special court orders described as "draconian" by one senior judge.

UNICEF, IOM GMDAC, UN Women, International Data Alliance for Children on the Move,

This webinar aims to provide concrete steps for policymakers, national statistical officers and practitioners to invest in data collection and leverage migration data for policy, and to offer practical guidance on gender-responsive migration governance. 

Claudia Cappa, Nicole Petrowski, Antoine Deliege & Muhammad Rafiq Khan,

The purpose of this article is to describe the process of testing and piloting the UNICEF protocol on children in residential care in three countries: India, Ghana, and Kazakhstan.

BBC News,

A man with autism who has spent nearly half his life detained in a mental health hospital has been released after a long campaign by his mother.

Keeping Children Safe,

Philip Goldman and Christina Tobias-Nahi in live panel discussion at the #FaithAndChildSafeguarding summit.

Keeping Children Safe,

This faith and child safeguarding summit provides a platform for religious institutions, faith-based organisations, academics, and religious leaders to come together, exchange insights, experiences, challenges and best practices on child safeguarding in religious and faith-based contexts.

ISPCAN,

This 2-day summit will engage policy makers, researchers, academia and practitioners to identify evidence based solutions to effectively address the child protection challenges in the post COVID-19 era.

Sen David - Khmer Times ,

Cambodian Minister of Social Affairs Vong Sauth has called on all relevant authorities to resolve children’s protection issues and implement the National Strategy following the launch of the National Policy on Child Protection System 2019-2029 in September.

UNICEF ESARO, Changing the Way We Care,

This paper highlights the importance of placing support for children with disabilities and their families at the centre of care reform efforts, and provides examples from across the region of how this can be done.