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PMNCH's Advocacy for Women, Children, and Adolescents' Health at COP28

The 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP28) in Dubai marked a significant milestone for the advocacy in advancing women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (WCAH) in the climate crisis. In the face of climate change, pregnant and lactating women, newborns, children, and adolescents find themselves uniquely vulnerable, as highlighted by the powerful WHO-UNICEF-UNFPA call to action on climate change and maternal, newborn, and child health. Despite contributing the least to greenhouse gas emissions, these vulnerable groups, both current and future generations, are poised to endure the harshest consequences throughout their lifetimes. It's an unjust reality where those least responsible for the problem are set to bear the heaviest burden. Through the amplification of the recommendations of the PMNCH Advocacy Brief on climate change and WCAH, PMNCH and its leaders played a pivotal role at COP28 in advocating for ....

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Young people push policymakers for action at world's largest forum for adolescents

The world’s largest online meeting of adolescents and young people, the Global Forum for Adolescents, closed today with a sweeping set of new commitments from
governments and other stakeholders.The Global Forum, 11-12 October 2023, was organized by PMNCH – the world’s largest alliance for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health – to galvanize attention to the needs and priorities of adolescents and
young people around the world. The Forum closed today with the launch of the “Agenda for Action for Adolescents”, based on the opinions of 1.2 million young people ages 16-24, collected in more than 80 countries through the What Young People Want (WYPW) initiative, the world’s largest survey of young people.According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.5 million adolescents and youth  died in 2021, averaging 4,500 deaths every day from preventable causes. Leading causes include road traffic accidents and interpersonal violence, while ....

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