{"id":3813,"date":"2019-06-08T11:19:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T11:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/en\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2019-06-08T11:19:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T11:19:46","slug":"venezuela-more-than-3-million-children-need-help-to-access-basic-services-according-to-unicef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2019\/06\/08\/venezuela-more-than-3-million-children-need-help-to-access-basic-services-according-to-unicef\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: More than 3 million children need help to access basic services according to UNICEF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) after an assessment visit to Venezuela announced on Friday that about 3.2 million children need help in this country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to UN preliminary estimates, one in three children needs help accessing nutrition, health and basic education services,&#8221; said Christophe Boulierac, spokesman for the UN,\u00a0UNICEF at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman for the UN agency echoed the findings of UNICEF Communications Director Paloma Escudero, who returned from a three-day mission to the Latin American country.<\/p>\n<p>UNICEF fears that the current situation in Venezuela has reduced children&#8217;s access to essential services and increased their vulnerability, erasing decades of progress.<\/p>\n<p>According to United Nations estimates based on official and other sources, infant mortality has increased by half between 2014 and 2017. As a result, nearly 190 suspected cases of diphtheria and 558 suspected cases of measles have been reported since the beginning of the epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on www.un.org<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) after an assessment visit to Venezuela announced on Friday that about 3.2 million children need help in this country. &#8220;According to UN preliminary estimates, one in three children needs help accessing nutrition, health and basic education services,&#8221; said Christophe Boulierac, spokesman for the UN,\u00a0UNICEF at a press conference. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[290,155],"tags":[1257,1258,225,437],"class_list":["post-3813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-america","category-latest-news","tag-3-million-children","tag-basic-services","tag-unicef","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}