21 December 2023 | Insights
21 December 2023 | Insights
20 December 2023 | Insights
13 December 2021 | Insights
Despite the achievements of past decades, the future of children and adolescents today is more uncertain. The pandemic exposed inequities —tolerated by our societies until now— not only in terms of health, but also in social and economic areas, which have resulted in a greater impact on vulnerable populations.
10 December 2021 | Insights
The pandemic has had a critical impact on the educational trajectories of children and adolescents in Latin America. Video-call interviews with more than 150 students, teachers, and parents in eight countries in the region (namely, Argentina, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, and Uruguay) in 2020 and 2021 reveal the challenges and opportunities faced in the transition to remote and online education during lockdown.
15 November 2019 | Briefing note
15 November 2019 | Briefing note
6 March 2019 | Briefing note
This report seeks to give an account of progress in the implementation of the priority measures of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development in the region, as well as the differences between countries in terms of the degree of implementation. By highlighting relevant national experiences, it also seeks to facilitate the exchange of good practices among countries so that they can benefit from each other in their efforts to advance the implementation of the actions of the Montevideo Consensus.
2 April 2018 | Insights
Chile is one of the few countries in the world that succeeded in eradicating undernutrition between the 1960s and the 1980s. It did so by managing to apply well-designed policies on maternal and child health even while it weathered two severe economic crises (1974–1976 and 1982–1986) in an adverse sociopolitical and cultural environment.
2 April 2018 | Briefing note
Breast milk is the best food for infants. The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF recommend exclusive breastfeeding from the first hour of life until at least 6 months of age.
2 April 2018 | Insights
Proper nutrition is a fundamental element in the realization of children’s right to enjoy the highest attainable level of physical and mental health.
20 April 2017 | Briefing note
20 April 2017 | Briefing note
30 August 2016 | Briefing note
We are pleased to inform that the document "Trends in adolescent motherhood and fertility and related Inequalities in the Caribbean 1990-2010" is now available. This document was prepared by the Caribbean demographer Valerie Nam.