Feb 07, 2024
International Children
As is True Elsewhere in our Federal Budget, Kids Come Up Short in U.S. Foreign Aid
The United States provides poverty-focused foreign assistance to poor countries to promote global health, security, and democracy, to reduce...
Nov 20, 2023
International Children
Today is World Children’s Day, Our Future Starts Now
The world’s children are facing multiple crises, from declining vaccination rates to full-scale war. To successfully care for this...
Oct 26, 2022
International Children
Kids and Covid: A Conversation on Global Impacts
Oct 21, 2022
International Children
Joint Letter: Presidential Proclamation Request for World Children’s Day
First Focus on Children — and over 30 other organizations working to improve the lives of children — sent...
Jul 09, 2021
Child Abuse & Neglect
Administration’s approach to gender-based violence needs to consider children
President Biden recently announced the United States’ commitments to the Generation Equality Forum, a global initiative to achieve equality...
May 26, 2021
Child Rights
State Department must do more to make foreign assistance for children transparent
In Children’s Budget 2020, First Focus on Children sought to identify and categorize — for the first time —...
Nov 19, 2020
Child Abuse & Neglect
Key Stats on the Effect of COVID-19 on Kids
The COVID-19 pandemic is doing more than exposing the racial, ethnic, and economic disparities existing in our society; it...
