UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children 2024 (SOWC-2024) report

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UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children 2024 (SOWC-2024) report

Why in the news?

• Children’s wellbeing will be ‘under threat’ by 2050, warns UNICEF.

Important points:

• The world is facing an unprecedented crisis with nearly half of all children, about 1 billion ,living in countries that face a high risk of climate and environmental hazards, the UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children 2024 (SOWC-2024) report, said. 
• Today’s children are confronting amore unpredictable, hazardous environment than any previous generation.
• The report examines the impact of three long-term global forces, demographic shifts, climate and environmental crises, and frontier technologies, which it says will have a profound effect on children’s livesbetween now and 2050.
• The report says there is a bleak future for youth due to demographic shifts, climate change, and technological transformation by 2050
• Children are experiencing a myriad of crises, from climate shocks to online dangers, and these are set to intensify in the years to come.

About  UNICEF:

• The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund(UNICEF), is an organization that works to protect the rights of children and young people.
• UNICEF headquarters arein New York.
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