Police in Bangladesh have recovered two bodies of newborns from a garbage pile close to Dhaka University’s Amar Ekushey Hall in the capital city, media reports said on Saturday.
Failure to register newborns leaves millions ‘invisible’ warns UN Children’s Fund
New York/IBNS: While the number of registered births has significantly increased over the past decade, one quarter of children globally remain unaccounted for, leaving them vulnerable and “invisible”, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday.
World is failing newborns; UNICEF says global mortality rates remain ‘alarmingly high’
New York, Feb 21 (JEN): Newborns are dying at “alarmingly high” rates in countries that are poor, conflict-ridden or have weak institutions, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Tuesday in a new report, which reveals that babies born in these places are 50 times more likely to die in the first month of life than those born in some wealthier nations.