Friday marks this year's World Children's Day, which was first established in 1954 as Universal Children's Day.

It is celebrated on Nov. 20 each year to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improve children's welfare.

This year, the COVID-19 crisis has resulted in a child rights crisis, as children's lives are nonetheless being changed in profound ways. All children, of all ages, and in all countries, are being affected, in particular by the socio-economic impacts.

Approximately 150 million additional children are living in multidimensional poverty - without access to education, health care, housing, nutrition, sanitation or water - due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the analysis jointly carried out by Save the Children and UNICEF.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned last Wednesday of a possible “lost generation” of children, as the COVID-19 disease threatens to cause “irreversible” damage to education, nutrition and well-being of young people around the world.

In a report published on the eve of the celebration of Universal Children's Day, UNICEF warned that the pandemic will have increasingly serious consequences for children, who represent one in every nine coronavirus infections recorded in the world.

While symptoms are mild among children, UNICEF focused on the long-term impact on education, nutrition and well-being for an entire generation of children and youth.

"Although children can get sick and spread disease, this is just the tip of the iceberg of the pandemic," said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.

Disruptions in basic services and rising poverty rates pose “the greatest threat to children” and, the longer the crisis persists, “the more profound will be its consequences on education, health, nutrition and well-being. of the children, ”Fore said.

"The future of an entire generation is in danger," insisted the American, and recalled that "children must always be first," so she urged governments and the private sector to "listen to minors and give priority to your needs”.

The report indicates that, as of November 3, children and adolescents under 20 years of age accounted for one in nine COVID-19 infections in 87 countries - those with data disaggregated by age - which represents 11% of the 25.7 million infections reported by those nations.

UNICEF considers that "schools are not the main factor of transmission in the community" and that "children are more likely to contract the virus outside the school environment", therefore "the net benefits of keeping schools open outweigh the costs to close them”.

As of November 2020, 572 million students were affected by school closures nationwide in 30 countries, or 33% of students enrolled worldwide.

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STORYLINE:

Friday marks this year's World Children's Day, which was first established in 1954 as Universal Children's Day.

It is celebrated on Nov. 20 each year to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improve children's welfare.

This year, the COVID-19 crisis has resulted in a child rights crisis, as children's lives are nonetheless being changed in profound ways. All children, of all ages, and in all countries, are being affected, in particular by the socio-economic impacts.

Approximately 150 million additional children are living in multidimensional poverty - without access to education, health care, housing, nutrition, sanitation or water - due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the analysis jointly carried out by Save the Children and UNICEF.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned last Wednesday of a possible “lost generation” of children, as the COVID-19 disease threatens to cause “irreversible” damage to education, nutrition and well-being of young people around the world.

In a report published on the eve of the celebration of Universal Children's Day, UNICEF warned that the pandemic will have increasingly serious consequences for children, who represent one in every nine coronavirus infections recorded in the world.

While symptoms are mild among children, UNICEF focused on the long-term impact on education, nutrition and well-being for an entire generation of children and youth.

"Although children can get sick and spread disease, this is just the tip of the iceberg of the pandemic," said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.

Disruptions in basic services and rising poverty rates pose “the greatest threat to children” and, the longer the crisis persists, “the more profound will be its consequences on education, health, nutrition and well-being. of the children, ”Fore said.

"The future of an entire generation is in danger," insisted the American, and recalled that "children must always be first," so she urged governments and the private sector to "listen to minors and give priority to your needs”.

The report indicates that, as of November 3, children and adolescents under 20 years of age accounted for one in nine COVID-19 infections in 87 countries - those with data disaggregated by age - which represents 11% of the 25.7 million infections reported by those nations.

UNICEF considers that "schools are not the main factor of transmission in the community" and that "children are more likely to contract the virus outside the school environment", therefore "the net benefits of keeping schools open outweigh the costs to close them”.

As of November 2020, 572 million students were affected by school closures nationwide in 30 countries, or 33% of students enrolled worldwide.