Focus Must Be On Children ‘Left Behind’, Says UN Study
by The Daily Eye Team June 29 2015, 5:06 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 29 secsThe 11th edition of Progress for Children: Beyond Averages, a UNICEF (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) report card on child-related Millennium Development Goal (MDG), warns that the focus must be on disadvantaged children, who continue to face unequal opportunities across the world. “As the global community comes together around the sustainable development goals [SDGs], we should set our sights first on reaching the children left behind as we pursued the MDGs,” UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake says in the foreword to the report.