A world fit for children 2002, para. 35

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Owing to poverty and lack of access to basic social services, more than 10 million children under five years of age, nearly half of them in their neonatal period, die every year of preventable diseases and malnutrition. Complications related to pregnancy and childbirth and maternal anaemia and malnutrition kill more than half a million women and adolescents each year, and injure and disable many more. More than one billion people cannot obtain safe drinking water, 150 million children under five years of age are malnourished, and more than two billion people lack access to adequate sanitation.
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Health
  • Poverty
  • Water & Sanitation
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
Year
2002
Paragraph type
Other
Paragraph focus
Goals, strategies and actions
Paragraph number
35