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This report from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) focuses on the dangers faced by displaced and refugee children and adolescents, millions of whom are on the move across international borders fleeing violence and conflict, disaster or poverty, or in pursuit of a better life. With few safe and legal routes to take on their journeys, unaccompanied children fall prey to smugglers and other illegitimate means of transport, which increases their risks of violence, abuse,…

This report from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) analyzes child, adolescent, and caregiver mental health, exploring the risk factors and social determinants that shape mental health outcomes for youth worldwide. This year’s report examines mental health for the first time, highlighting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the concerns it raised for children’s mental health, a long-ignored global health issue. As the COVID-19 crisis disrupted the lives, routines, and security of millions around…

This fact sheet from Everytown for Gun Safety provides key findings and recommendations about firearm suicide in the United States. Firearm suicide is a public health crisis in the US, as an estimated 25,000 Americans die by firearm suicide annually, including more than 3,100 young people. Nearly six out of ten gun deaths in the US are suicides, an average of 65 deaths per day. The fact sheet covers topics spanning access to guns, demographic…