Conflict, hunger, poverty impede children's early development: Türk

Published on March 13, 2025

Governments everywhere are “letting children down instead of lifting them up” as conflict, hunger, poverty and climate change hold back child development, UN rights chief Volker Türk told Member States in Geneva on Thursday.

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