Road Safety Report 2023

The 2012 State of the World’s Children report focuses on the increasingly urban experience of childhood around the world today. It highlights challenges such as poverty and exclusion that face children living in the city, outlines key issues related to children’s rights in an urban setting, and offers suggestions and examples toward making cities fit for children and uniting for children in an urban world. The report, which is published annually by the United Nations Children’s…

This fact sheet from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) summarizes data from 16 low- and middle-income countries on the maternal health status of indigenous women and adolescent girls. Indigenous women and girls face disproportionate levels of discrimination, exclusion, and violence, and suffer significantly worse maternal health outcomes than many other populations. This publication examines the…

This report from the National Academies Press (NAP) presents the findings of a workshop focused on understanding the interconnections between public health and ecological health, discussing how ecosystem resilience impacts public health. Workshop attendees included professionals from public health, environmental protection, and natural resource management communities to bridge evidence and knowledge gaps around integrating public health and nature into research and policy to foster resilience. The publication summarizes the findings and discussions from the workshop,…