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UNICEF News, Feb 16, 2012

Join Mia Farrow And UNICEF On Google Plus
Look To The Stars
In addition to Mia and UNICEF colleagues participating; students, bloggers, and activists from around the world will be 'hanging out' on Google Plus and will share their own personal stories and questions with Mia related to her visit.
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Myanmar, UNICEF Agree On Country Program Action Plan
Bernama
The UNICEF is the world's leading development organization working for the well-being of children. For over 50 years, UNICEF has worked to protect the lives of children around the world, helping them realize fuller, richer, healthier lives.
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Turning On The Tap To Save Lives
North American Press Syndicate
(NAPSI)—Waterborne illnesses are the second-leading cause of preventable childhood deaths in the world-killing almost 4000 children every day. Fortunately, the UNICEF Tap Project is helping to provide safe, clean water to children around the world ...
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In Mauritania, help needed to protect children from emerging malnutrition crisis
UNICEF (press release)
They are part of a joint initiative by four UN agencies –UNICEF, the World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) – along with the government and partner NGOS.
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UNICEF (press release)
Dorset County Hospital is officially baby-friendly
Dorset Echo
... Friendly Award from UNICEF. The Baby Friendly Initiative aims to provide improved care for mothers and babies across the world and in the UK focuses on ensuring mothers and babies receive high quality support to enable successful breastfeeding.
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Ever-rising cases of malnutrition
UNICEF (press release)
Ms. Farrow left Mao with an urgent plea to the world to respond to a crisis that UNICEF fears may only get worse. “The worldhears little about the emergency in the Sahel,” she said, “and without immediate help, there is no hope.” UNICEF Image.
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UNICEF (press release)
Ratings race, politics may hit anti-polio drive
DAWN.com
Polio is on the verge of being eradicated around the world and nuclear-armed Pakistan had 198 cases in 2011, the highest anywhere. – AP Photo WE seem to live by controversies, thrive on them. Why should one feel enraged by the latest one then?
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DAWN.com
Political Scandals Rock the Polio Eradication Boat
Inter Press Service
While UNICEF, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and federal and provincial governments have been urging mass media to minimise negative coverage of anti-polio drives, a recent political scandal involving the United States' Central Intelligence Agency ...
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3 Rules For Social Innovation In The Developing World
Co.Exist
UNICEF's Rajesh Amandan talks about the lessons his organization has accumulated while figuring out the most effective ways to bring aid to children around the world. Rajesh Amandan is the senior vice president ofUNICEF Ventures and Private Sector ...
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What's child hunger got to do with Valentine's Day?
UNICEF UK (press release) (blog)
Yet children all over the world live below the poverty line, on less than £1's worth of food each day. Helen Bennett from UNICEF UK's fundraising initiatives team sensed a challenge... This year, to raise awareness of child hunger, UNICEF UK is taking ...
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Political unrest deepens plight of Yemen children
Al-Sahwah.net
Political turmoil has pushed Yemen, already one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, to the brink of a humanitarian crisis to rival the one that ravaged the Horn of Africa last year, Reuters reports. The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, ...
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Jeff Carl benefit performance among weekend events
The-Burg
Local musician Jeff Carl will perform a benefit concert this weekend to raise money for the Eliminate Project, a campaign by Kiwanis International andUNICEF to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus from developing countries.
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Zimbabwe's Mugabe: Worst of the worst in the world order
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Unicef says the rate of infant mortality has increased, too. The seed for much of this was Mugabe's destructive land-redistribution campaign 12 years ago, when he kicked the nation's white commercial farmers off their land. Those farms provided the ...
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Obama Confirms Adviser Sperling's Call for a “Global Minimum Tax”
The New American
EFA was launched in March, 1990, at the World Conference on Education For All (WCEFA) in Jomtien,Thailand, sponsored by UNESCO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and a number of CFR-aligned NGOs and tax-exempt foundations.
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IKEA invests €470 million in renewable energy projects
Click Green
The global retail chain is a founding member of both the Forest Stewardship Council and the Better Cotton Initiative, and has maintained successful partnerships with UNICEF, Save the Children and World Wildlife Fund for a decade or more.
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In wasting children, a richer India sees "national shame"
The West Australian
It has also catapulted the country onto the world stage, boosting its claim for a bigger role on forums such as the UN Security Council. This month, it moved closer to buying new fighter jets worth a whopping $15 billion. Yet while the urban middle ...
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The West Australian
Spate of Teen Suicides Continues
RIA Novosti
Russia ranks third in the world in terms of the number of suicides committed by adolescents, with average suicide rate among the adolescent population being more than three times higher than the world's average, according to UNICEF data published in ...
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DORCHESTER: Top baby award for county hospital
View Online
The Baby Friendly Initiative, set up by UNICEF and the World Health Organisation, is a global programme which provides a practical and effective way for health services to improve the care provided for all mothers and babies.
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India prepares for Polio Summit 2012
Rotary International
More than 1000 government leaders, health officials, and Rotarians from India and neighboring countries, along with representatives from Rotary International, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...
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Rotary International
Progress on Sustainability at IKEA
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
IKEA is a founding member of both the Forest Stewardship Council and the Better Cotton Initiative, and has maintained successful partnerships withUNICEF, Save the Children and World Wildlife Fund for a decade or more. The IKEA code of conduct for ...
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Education and the Arab Spring
euronews
Uprisings have swept through several countries in the Arabworld. From Tunisia to Libya, Egypt and others, the so-called Arab Spring has brought a crucial political change for many people who have been striving for it for decades.
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euronews
New WHO goal targets NTDS
Independent.co.ug
The partners will work together to improve the lives of the 1.4 billion people worldwide affected by NTDs, most of whom are among the world'spoorest. After the announcement , Adetokunbo O. Lucas the former director of the UNICEF/UN Development ...
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CRS considers better stoves for refugees
Catholic Sentinel
Colgan and his wife Lise will travel to Africa to demonstrate how the stoves decrease deforestation, and smoke and greenhouse gases harm, to field workers from Catholic Relief Services, World Health Organization and theUNICEF.
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Malnutrition Underlies One Third of All Child Deaths Every Year, Save the ...
Tripoli Post
Carolyn Miles, President & CEO of Save the Children said that malnutrition is “a largely hidden crisis, but it afflicts one in four children around theworld. She went on to say: "It wreaks lifelong damage and is a major killer of children.
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Cyclone Giovanna kills 16 in Madagascar, worst over
Reuters
Madagascar, the world's biggest producer of vanilla, is the world's fourth largest island at about size of Texas or France. The island is also one of theworld's poorest countries. The worst of the storm was over by late Tuesday when the authorities ...
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Under Threat in Nepal, Former UN Officials Seek Protection
Inter Press Service
Kul Chandra Gautam, a former UN assistant secretary-general and a longstanding deputy executive director of the UN children's agencyUNICEF, and Kanak Mani Dixit, a former press officer at the UN's Department of Public Information (DPI) in New York and ...
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Global Insider: Professionalism, Discretion Make Red Cross the Go-To Conflict ...
World Politics Review
It has had to develop contacts with all sorts of armed nonstate actors as well as 193 governments around the world. Because of its global activity featuring many field missions, it is usually well-informed about events that may seem obscure in Western ...
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10th Anniversary of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in ...
Sudan Vision
“Ten years ago, the world said no to the forced recruitment of children under the age of 18 and to their participation in hostilities,” the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy said on ...
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Sudan Vision
District News February 9th
Stornoway Gazette
Unicef Day For Change – On Friday, February 3rd, pupils and staff of Scalpay School held a non-uniform day to support Unicef's Day For Change. Unicef helps children throughout the world by providing health care, nutrition and education and thanks are ...
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Mia Farrow in West Africa: "a million children face starvation"
UNICEF UK (press release) (blog)
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow has travelled to Chad and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to visitUNICEF's life-saving work for children and to promote efforts to wipe out polio. Monday 13 February - It's been two years since my last visit ...
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UNICEF UK (press release) (blog)
Join Mia Farrow And UNICEF On Google Plus
In addition to Mia and UNICEF colleagues participating; students, bloggers, and activists from around the world will be 'hanging out' on Google Plus and will share their own personal stories and questions with Mia related to her visit. A moderator will select questions from UNICEF's online communities to ask Mia Farrow directly about her own experiences thus far. To Participate: Add UNICEF to ... Related news stories. The following stories feature the same celebrities and/or charities: ...
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Capital News » UNICEF says 400 children killed in Syria unrest
Home » International News, World » UNICEF says 400 children killed in Syria ... been detained,” UNICEF spokeswoman Marixie Mercado said at a briefing.
www.capitalfm.co.ke/.../unicef-says-400-children-killed-in-syr...
BERNAMA - Myanmar, UNICEF Agree On Country Program Action ...
BG: Reset. You are here : World › News. News Who's Who. February 16, 2012 11 :49 AM. Myanmar, UNICEF Agree On Country Program Action Plan. YANGON ...
www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsworld.php?id=646013
Madagascar: UNICEF To Help Victims Of Deadly Cyclone | Scoop ...
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said today that it has pre- positioned enough ... Scoop - Independent News · Contact Newsagent Login. World ...
www.scoop.co.nz/.../madagascar-unicef-to-help-victims-of-de...
World News Blog » » As Syrian violence rages on, UNICEF voices ...
Worldblog.eu covers the latest world news - providing regional perspectives to current ... The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today sounded the alarm ...
worldblog.eu/.../as-syrian-violence-rages-on-unicef-voices-ala...
As Syrian violence rages on, UNICEF voices ... - Morocco World News
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today sounded the alarm about the plight of children caught up in the bloodshed in Syria, where nearly 11 months ...
moroccoworldnews.com/2012/02/as-syrian.../26285
Africa: Unicef Launches Report on Children in an Urban World ...
Africa: Unicef Launches Report on Children in an Urban World.
news2.onlinenigeria.com/.../140025-africa-unicef-launches-re...
Rights Commission, UNICEF Collaborate For ... - PM NEWS Nigeria
Home > News > World > Rights Commission, UNICEF Collaborate For Nigerian Child ... UNICEF Chief Child Protection Officer, Noriko Izumi, who disclosed this ...
pmnewsnigeria.com/.../rights-commission-unicef-collaborate-f...
When You Take Water, Give Water and Support the UNICEF Tap ...
When You Take Water, Give Water and Support the UNICEF Tap Project During World Water Week, March 19-25.
www.prnewswire.com/.../when-you-take-water-give-water-and...
Unicef Funding Falls Short Leaving Millions Of Children At Risk ...
UNICEF's funding shortfall could leave millions of children like these looking for a living in garbage. ... had 1.28 billion dollars it could help 97 million people around the world. ... Meanwhile, other countries present new and equally dire needs.
www.globalissues.org/news/2012/02/03/12617
UNICEF says about 20 percent Russian teens susceptible to serious ...
UNICEF says about 20 percent Russian teens susceptible to serious depression. 14 February 2012 | 04:53 | FOCUS News Agency. Home /World. Moscow.
www.focus-fen.net/?id=n270906
International Development - UNICEF gears up for innovation
UNICEF will push for more innovations this year to address people's humanitarian ... development headlines from the world's leading donors,news sources and ...
www.devex.com/en/blogs/the.../unicef-gears-up-for-innovatio...
UNICEF Funding Falls Short Leaving Millions of Children at R ...
If the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) had 1.28 billion dollars it ...World (tags: unitednations, UnitedNations, politics, world, news, Refugees&Relief ) ...
www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/3092701
Madagascar: UNICEF to help cyclone victims [newKerala.com News ...
Read the full story of Madagascar: UNICEF to help cyclone victims - Antananarivo, Feb 15 : The United Nations Children's ... Read otherworld-news stories ...
www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-158903.html
UNICEF Hoping to Prevent a Humanitarian Crisis in West and ...
In an effort to avert a large-scale loss of life due to malnutrition and disease,UNICEF is ramping up its operations in eight countries in the Sahel region of.
www.toonaripost.com/.../unicef-hoping-to-prevent-a-humanita...
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