187 days ago From UN News Centre   View Archived Article

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - =93Every time a child is killed or injured, every time a child loses a parent or relative, and every time their schools and teachers are attacked, the more all children in the deep south suffer,=94 said the representative of the UN Children's Fun ...

187 days ago From All Africa   View Archived Article

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Kaduna =97 The United Nations Children's Education Fund (UNICEF) has raised alarm over what it described as the increase in polio cases in the North. This was contained in a communique issued after the 13th High Level Advocacy meeting between ...

188 days ago From UNICEF-press release   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DAKAR/GENEVA, 11 December 2012 =96 A UNICEF progress report says that more than 850,000 children are expected to have received life-saving treatment for severe acute malnutrition across nine countries in the Sahel region during the course of 2012. ...

189 days ago From UNICEF-press release   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Within the camp, UNICEF, through Care International, is running an early childhood development (ECD) programme and also leads on providing safe water and sanitation and child protection. =93By now, we are reaching almost every child in the camp aged ...

189 days ago From UNICEF-press release   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - =93The CHDs are now being regularly implemented across Somalia twice yearly by the Ministries of Health, UNICEF and the World Health Organization. Through a concerted support, staff are deployed to health centres to gear up for big crowds and long da ...

189 days ago From This Day Live   View Archived Article

LAGOS, NIGERIA - As part of a wider Niger Delta Support Programme (NDSP) aimed at addressing the causes of unrest in the region, the European Union (EU) and UNICEF yesterday signed a five-year agreement for the implementation of Rural Water and Sanitation Project ...

189 days ago From Africa Review   View Archived Article

NAIROBI, KENYA - "The latest clashes in North Kivu have raised the total number of schools affected by conflict this year to more than 600, which is more than double the number three months ago," Unicef said. After a relative truce of several weeks, the arm ...

193 days ago From UNICEF-press release   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - BRUSSELS, Belgium, 6 December 2012 =96 The European Union (EU) and UNICEF have joined forces to protect more than 30 million children's lives by improving nutrition security in five Asian and four African countries. The EU is providing =8041 mill ...

194 days ago From All Africa   View Archived Article

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Crr =97 The United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (Unicef) recently donated educational materials to Galleh Manda Lower Basic School, in Upper Fulladu West District, CRR south. The donated materials included exercise books, pencils, .. ...

195 days ago From my.hsj.org   View Archived Article

COLUMBIA, MISSOURI - UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Fund) established Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF in 1950 to give children a chance to help other children during World War II. Since then, the program has expanded significantly and continues to help chi ...

196 days ago From UNICEF-press release   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - CAPE TOWN, 2 December 2012 =96 UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom met with children and young people near Cape Town today to learn more about their lives and to spread the word about what they have to say. The British actor, who is in South ...

196 days ago From UNICEF-press release   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NEW YORK, United States of America, 3 December 2012 - Stigma, ignorance, neglect, superstition and communication barriers are among the social factors that explain the discrimination and isolation from society that children with disabilities face. ...

196 days ago From AOL Music   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Gaga wasn't just going on safaris during her recent Born This Way Ball tour stop in South Africa, the singer began work for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) by visiting one of The National Association of Child Care Workers' cen ...

197 days ago From Hindustan Times   View Archived Article

NEW DELHI, INDIA - Reshma Pathan always dreamt of winning an award. Last week, she was given the Navjyoti award for successfully resisting her family's plans to get her married at a young age. =93I always dreamt of achieving something in life that would bring me an ...

199 days ago From Coastweek   View Archived Article

NAIROBI, KENYA - UNICEF Kenya Representative Marcel Rudasingwa said during the release of findings from a first-ever national survey of sexual, physical and emotional violence against children administered by the government that authorities should identify and addres ...

201 days ago From Danbury News Times   View Archived Article

DANBURY, CONNECTICUT - A man suffering from cholera symptoms is carried into a hospital run by the relief organization Doctors Without Borders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. Haiti and the Dominican Republic will require $2.2 billion over the next 10 .. ...

201 days ago From Ghana Business News   View Archived Article

ACCRA, GHANA - Mr. Andrew Quayson, Chairman of Unilever Foundation, on Wednesday handed over a cheque for =8098,000 to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to improve hygiene and sanitation in the Central, Volta, Upper East, Upper West and the Northern . ...

201 days ago From China Daily   View Archived Article

BEIJING, CHINA - Gillian Mellsop, UNICEF's China representative, said in an interview with Xinhua that there has been tremendous progress in the last 20 years in how the government and people have been supporting those affected by HIV/AIDS, their families and chi ...

202 days ago From The Express Tribune   View Archived Article

KARACHI, PAKISTAN - Special Health Secretary Babar Hayat Tarar has said that the number of HIV patients in the Punjab estimated by health organisations including the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children's Fund was much higher than the official r ...

202 days ago From Examiner.com   View Archived Article

DENVER, COLORADO - =93Just had the thrill of my life singing for UNICEF as they honored my great friend Harry Belafonte,=94 tweeted Tony Bennett from his official Twitter account minutes after the second performance. The entertainer was singing inside for this event an ...