For more than a decade, The State of the World's Children report from UNICEF has become the best-known and most widely used of all United Nations publications. Published in forty languages, it is distributed to media in all countries at year's end, and has become both a record and a catalyst of the movement to promote the kind of development that benefits today's children--and tomorrow's world. The 1993 report describes the progress being made toward the goals which were established by the world's political leaders at the 1990 World Summit for Children. These goals, to be reached by the year 2000, include a one third reduction in under-five deaths, a halving of malnutrition cases, and the provision of at least a basic education for every child. Keeping the promise to the world's children, the 1993 report makes clear, will require the efforts of millions of people and thousands of organizations in every country of the world. Read More