62 days ago From UNICEF-press release  

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NEW YORK, United States of America, 15 March 2013 =96 Three young women from quite different parts of the world, but with very similar goals, met at UNICEF House recently to talk about their passion for promoting girls' rights. Linh, 20, from Vie ...

64 days ago From TopNews Arab Emirates  

ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - UNICEF Aims to Eradicate Polio by 2018 Eradication of polio by 2018 across the world is the motto of the United Nations children's body UNICEF. They have asked the governments to join the move and get away with the disease within the said time pe ...

65 days ago From UNICEF-press release  

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - HELSINKI, 13 March 2013 - More than 100 delegates from over 20 countries met in Helsinki today to discuss how to make sure countries around the world can better prevent the fallout of conflicts, war and disasters from reversing the gains in developme ...

65 days ago From UNICEF-press release  

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - They are receiving assistance from UNICEF, UNHCR, and the World Food Programme. During their visit, their Royal Highnesses spent time with families in the camp, hearing for themselves about the profound distress that they have been through and the .. ...

66 days ago From UNICEF-press release  

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Ms. Sadou brought Ouda to a UNICEF-supported feeding centre in the camp, where all children are screened for malnutrition and given nutritious meals three times a day. Nutritional screening takes place once a month in all three feeding centres in the ...

66 days ago From New York Times  

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - The Unicef Tap Project was started by the US Fund for Unicef =97 an independent organization that supports Unicef initiatives =97 in 2007 to raise money for ...

69 days ago From UN News Centre  

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - 8 March 2013 =96 Keep children out of harm's way, the head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today urged Zimbabweans, who head next week to the polls in a constitutional referendum and later this year in general elections. =93At ...

69 days ago From UNICEF-press release  

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Millions of girls are vulnerable to violence around the world, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Geeta Rao Gupta said, opening the UNICEF-convened side event Girls Growing up Free of Violence: Promoting tolerance, equality and respect for the 57th ...

72 days ago From The Seattle Times  

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - UNICEF: Quarter of Congo's children not in school. The United Nations Children's Fund says more than a quarter of Congolese children are not going to school, including 1.3 million in the mineral-rich Katanga province. The Associated Press ...

73 days ago From UNICEF-press release  

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AMMAN/DAMASCUS, 5 March 2013 =96 Almost two years into the Syria crisis, the escalating level of violence is threatening the education of hundreds of thousands of children, a UNICEF assessment says. One fifth of the country's schools have suffere ...

73 days ago From UNICEF-press release  

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - GENEVA, 4 March 2013 =96 The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and UNICEF welcomes a new case study, which found that a baby treated with antiretroviral drugs in the first 30 hours of life and who continued on treatment for 18 ...

74 days ago From UNICEF-press release  

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - With the introduction of Family Health Days, a partnership among UNICEF, the government and faith-based organizations, Ugandans can now receive the healthcare and attention they need. Yusuf Atef and Anne Lydia Sekandi. KABAROLE, Uganda, 4 March ...

76 days ago From UNICEF-press release  

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - UNICEF and its partner, NGO Plan International, have installed and furnished 11 tent classrooms and provided school supplies. In order to reduce language and culture barriers, new Malian teachers are trained in the Nigerien curriculum and in techniqu ...

76 days ago From Scottish Daily Record  

LONDON, U K - OSCAR winning actress Hilary Swank has travelled to Ethiopia as a representative of UNICEF and Montblanc to learn more about the importance of education and the opportunities that it brings in some of the more disadvantaged communities in the world. ...

77 days ago From UNICEF-press release  

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Chifundo's mother has brought her to the UNICEF-supported One-Stop Centre in Blantyre, Malawi's commercial capital. Unfortunately, there are many other children who have passed through the centre, who are slowly recovering from their own pain ...

78 days ago From UNICEF-press release  

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - TRIPOLI, 28 February 2013 =96 Some 40 percent of the schools in Libya were damaged in the 2011 revolution according to a report released by the Ministry of Education (MoE) and UNICEF today. These findings are based on a recent nationwide school ...

79 days ago From UNICEF-press release  

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 26 February 2013 =96 Four days ago, 4-year-old Nelson nearly died from cholera. Today, Nelson is enjoying a strong recovery. He's lying on a cot and joking with visitors at a GHESKIO cholera treatment centre. An intravenous ...

80 days ago From UNICEF-press release  

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - UNICEF correspondent Michelle Marrion reports on how UNICEF is supporting efforts to find child labourers a way out of the diamond mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Watch in RealPlayer ...

81 days ago From Haute Living  

MIAMI, FLORIDA - The day before the Oscars was the official Montblanc Signature for Good 2013 Charity Brunch where many guests joined together with Hilary Swank, Montblanc and UNICEF to celebrate the launch of the Signature for Good Initiative 2013 at Hotel Bel Air i ...

82 days ago From UNICEF-press release  

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NEW YORK, 22 February 2013 =96 UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Shakira and FC Barcelona soccer star Gerard Piqu=E9 today thanked hundreds of thousands of fans for taking part in their interactive World Baby Shower and buying life-saving items for ...