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UNICEF News, Mar 29, 2012

Organizations band together on World Water Day
Central Florida Future
On March 21, uKNIGHTed for UNICEF presented World Water Day 2012 in efforts to raise awareness about those effects of pollution on food and water security. Student organizations teamed in in a collaborative effort to make their cause known to UCF ...
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Rotary works to stamp out polio around the world
Chicago Daily Herald
The push was done through a long-standing cooperative relationship among Rotary International, the World Health Organization, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNICEF, and the government of India to help rid the world of the dreaded ...
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Lewis Hamilton spends time in Manila on UNICEF trip
Daily Mail
But the McLaren star, who secured his second consecutive podium finish of the season in Sepang, snubbed the chance to put up his feet, instead taking to the Philippines as part of a charity project for UNICEF. The 2008 world champion made the 1500-mile ...
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Daily Mail
Golfing fortunes can be turned easily by nurturing young talent
Business Daily Africa
UNICEF has done a very clever thing, they have established centres of excellence where local talent is assembled, housed, fed and given the skills to grow in their respective fields. The Kenya Women Under 20 team that is on the verge of a world cup ...
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Business Daily Africa
US Five Million Spent On Free Polio Vaccine for Children
AllAfrica.com
Speaking at a news conference in Monrovia recently, an official of UNICEF, Alfonzo Hague, said the US$5 million was channeled through UNICEF and theWorld Health Organization (WHO) by the UN in a bid to see Liberian Children be immunized free of charge ...
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Pau Gasol Launches App For UNICEF
Look To The Stars
“This story is about helping children overcome life's greatest challenges, which is what UNICEF does every day in its work throughout the world,” said Gasol. “Together, we can help change the lives of so many children who need our support to survive ...
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NAFDAC, UNICEF Urge Effective Food Fortification Programme
Leadership Newspapers
"In view of this, the Federal Government in collaboration with theWorld Health Organisation, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and UNICEF will mount control programmes to address the problem, “he said. He identified flour, sugar and vegetable oil ...
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Leadership Newspapers
NAFDAC, UNICEF Challenge Firms on Food Fortification
THISDAY Live
“Available evidence shows that Nigeria has one of the highest rates of child and maternal mortality in the world with vitamin A deficiency (VAD) being a major contributory factor, while micronutrient malnutrition has become a major devastating ...
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In Morocco, the rape and death of an adolescent girl prompts calls for changes ...
UNICEF (press release)
By Aniss Maghri RABAT, Morocco, 28 March 2012 – The death of 16-year-old Amina Filali, in the old port town of Larache, Morocco , has prompted outrage around the world. Amina's life was shattered by a double tragedy: She was raped at age 15, and then,...
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UNICEF (press release)
Mavs for UNICEF to hold 5k to raise child-mortality-rate awareness
UTA The Shorthorn
Mavs for UNICEF will sponsor Run for Zero, a 5K run or walk, to raise awareness of the mortality rate of children around the world who die everyday from avoidable causes. History senior Rachel Makutuya came up with the idea for the first UNICEF event ...
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Inter-Ministerial Wash Conference Ends in Monrovia
AllAfrica.com
The Meeting was jointly organized by WaterAid and UNICEF, as part of the celebration marking World Water Day. Several other activities were also held in Monrovia, Liberia, as part of the celebration marking World Water Day beginning with the "official ...
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Why the battle against polio isn't over
Chicago Daily Herald
In 1988, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution to eradicate polio and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative began. The World Health Organization,UNICEF and the US Center for Disease Control joined forces in the private-public partnership.
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In Lao PDR, media workshop encourages positive, holistic early childhood...
UNICEF (press release)
27 February 2012: UNICEF correspondent Rachel O'Brien reports on a media workshop designed to enhance early learning for children in Lao PDR. Watch in RealPlayer Though the buffalo's performance – pushing and pulling a series of green balls that ...
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UNICEF (press release)
The Lords anti-0.7% report is misguided, misleading and out of touch
Left Foot Forward
But more than that, as Bill Gates, UNICEF UK President Lord Ashdown, Oxfam, Save the Children, the ONE Campaign, WaterAid, Christian Aid, World Vision UK and the VSO have already said, the calls from this report would not only endanger the lives of ...
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Left Foot Forward
How Many Kids Are in Institutions? No Way to Know
The Moscow Times
But the countries of the former Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact continue to have the highest rates of institutionalization in the world, according to UNICEF. To achieve reductions, Russian social services need to offer better support for families in ...
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West Africa: 'Nothing Left but Dust and Sand'
AllAfrica.com
On the edge of the village, Houdallah's only agricultural initiative - marked with signs from the aid agency, World Vision, and the Mauritanian government - has been abandoned and the soil is as dry as the surrounding desert.
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FROM READERS: Women volunteer for polio prevention efforts in India
Columbia Missourian
They immunized children against polio – a crippling disease that still paralyzes and sometimes kills children in parts of the world. The 38-member team from the USA and Canada departed on Feb. 14 for Delhi, India. These volunteers are members of Rotary ...
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Columbia Missourian
'Clash of the Commercials: USA vs. The World', to be Broadcast Monday, May 21
TVbytheNumbers
THE WORLD, hosted from Las Vegas by legendary supermodel Heidi Klum, and "The Insider's" co-host Kevin Frazier, is an interactive countdown special pitting the 10 best international commercials ever against the 10 best from the United States.
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Changing fortunes in Nigeria's agricultural sector (2)
BusinessDay
As observed by United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) “The success the world has had in protecting children's rights and realising human potential is captured far more eloquently in flesh and bone than in concrete or steel, far more tellingly in the ...
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BusinessDay
Abolish 0.7% UK aid target, say peers
The Guardian
The committee also called for a reduction in the amount of funding the UK gives to the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, and the European Commission's aid programme. It urged the government to do more to tackle corruption feeding ...
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MELIA HOTELS INTERNATIONAL SA : Club Meliá, the race for children
4-traders
The club is also raising funds for UNICEF through voluntary donations by guests. All the Club Meliá sales offices, located in Cancun, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, Playa del Carmen, Puerto Rico, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Cana, Madrid, Marbella and ...
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Statistics Sierra Leone Launches MICS 4 Report
Awareness Times
By Edward Koligbonda Tommy Statistics Sierra Leone, in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MOFED) and UNICEF, on Tuesday 27th March 2012, officially launched the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 4 (MICS-4) Report at ...
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Women's Perspective: Rush Limbaugh paying price for his rant against women
Wicked Local
According to UNICEF, the Dominican Republic is experiencing a growing epidemic in the sex trade industry, especially involving children. Corrupt police officials even provide protection to the locations that offer women and children.
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Check advice on new babies
Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
Firstly, the advice to start solid, complimentary foods at four to six months is contrary to that given by the Department of Health, which is based on extensive research by the World Health Organisation. The guidelines state that babies need only ...
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Health: Senegal eliminates maternal, neonatal tetanus
Afrique en Ligue
... the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in a statement received by PANA here. The statement said Senegal's success in that regard was confirmed following the validation made last December by a team from the World Health Organization (WHO), ...
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Malnutrition and Meningitis Stalk Chad
SOS Children's Villages Canada
Malnutrition levels are up noticeably since last summer when the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) surveyed the area, mostly due to poor harvests, pests destroying foodcrops, reduced remittances coming in from Libya and an economic downturn in ...
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Syria crisis tops IPU summit
Daily Monitor
Legislators from around the world will vote on the inclusion of an emergency debate on the situation in Syria calling for an immediate end to the violence and human rights abuses there when the 126th Inter-Parliamentary Union's (IPU) Assembly gets ...
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Maggie Cheung and Sea Princess agree: Skincare should be no-fuss
Inquirer.net
In 2010, she became the first Chinese ambassador for UnicefChina and is working to increase literacy rates among young Chinese women and girls. To free up her time to pursue things she believes in, Cheung leaves her prettifying to good makeup artists,...
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Inquirer.net
Students schooled in children's rights
EMC Nepean Barrhaven
The students spent the day learning about challenges children face across theworld. The student body spent the day on March 22 learning about the challeneges other children across the world face. "The were put in multi-grade groups and given a right ...
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Shaping new health policy
Oman Daily Observer
Various UN agencies and specialised bodies, including the WorldHealth Organisation, Unicef and UNFPA, will also be fielding delegates to the conference. The conference will look at the national health systems of a number of countries including ...
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Oman Daily Observer
Halima Kasungu - Woman Who Proved Gender Parity Is Possible Anywhere
AllAfrica.com
She offered consultancy services on review of labour laws and other related laws and regulations and critical issues affecting women in the world of work in 1999 and also on effect of Women's Workload on Maternal and Nutritional Status, a UNICEF study ...
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Lend Your Leg for the Mine Ban Treaty, Support Disarmament
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
On 4 April 2012, the New Zealand Campaign Against Landmines (CALM) will kick off the first of dozens of “Lend Your Leg” actions events against landmines to be held around the world on the International Day for Mine Action and Mine Awareness.
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Pau Gasol Launches App For UNICEF
“This story is about helping children overcome life's greatest challenges, which is what UNICEF does every day in its work throughout the world,” said Gasol. “Together, we can help change the lives of so many children who need our support to ...
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World Water Day 2012 - UNICEF Australia
World Water Day 2012. 19/03/12 Print this article | Email this article to a friend. A small child fills a collapsible jerrycan with safe water at one of several outdoor...
www.unicef.org.au/Discover/.../World-Water-Day-2012.aspx
News Note UNICEF: On World Water Day, poor rural people missing ...
News Note. UNICEF: On World Water Day, poor rural people missing out. NEW YORK, 22 March 2012 – As the world commemorates World Water Day, UNICEF ...
www.unicef.org/.../2012_SL_UNICEF_Global_WWD_PR.pdf
UNICEF brings acclaimed HIV film to festival - World News - HIV ...
UNICEF brings acclaimed HIV film to festival - World News UNICEF NZ is bringing four children's rights documentaries to the screen at the upcoming ...
www.hivhaven.com/.../unicef-brings-acclaimed-hiv-film-to-fe...
World Water Week: UNICEF Tap Project Allows You To Pay $1 Extra ...
During World Water Week, March 19 through the 25, patrons sitting down to a meal at participating ... pay $1 for that otherwise-free glass, with money benefitting UNICEF programs through the Tap Project. ... Related News On Huffington Post: ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../world-water-week-tap_n_136826...
Unicef says Sahel hunger disaster could hit 1.5 million children
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www.calgaryherald.com/news/Unicef+says.../story.html
NEWS - WORLD - UNICEF Prepares to Meet Food Crisis in the ...
WATCH MORE ON CANAL INTERNACIONAL: www.ci-webtv.com UNICEFPrepares to Meet Food Crisis in the Sahel A time bomb is ticking in the Sahel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x22A6OMs6No
UNICEF: 500 children died in Syrian war - UPI.com
UNICEF, in a statement Friday, said "at least" 500 Syrian children were killed during the yearlong ... In a Friday report, the official Syrian Arab News Agency claims CNN .... UPI.com is your trusted source for world news, top news, science news, ...
www.upi.com/Top_News/...in.../UPI-69191332522535/
Syria: UNICEF Steps Up Its Response To Affected Children | Scoop ...
Scoop - Independent News ... The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and ...
www.scoop.co.nz/.../syria-unicef-steps-up-its-response-to-affe...
msnbc.com U.S. & World News - UNICEF: Millions of kids live in ...
Advertise | AdChoices. Recent posts. Direct Link To Story UNICEF: Millions of kids live in urban squalor. msnbc.com (Seeded By msnbc.com U.S. & WorldNews) ...
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World Water Day 2012: Safe Water Saves Lives - UNICEF Ireland
World Water Day, commemorated each year on 22 March, focuses attention on the importance of freshwater to sustainable development. World Water Day 2012 ...
www.unicef.ie/.../World-Water-Day-2012-Safe-Water-Saves-...
This World Water Day, some good news about clean water | World ...
World Vision - Building a Better World For Children. Follow Us ... “For children, this is especially good news,” said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake.
www2.worldvision.org/.../world-water-day-clean-water-access...
Disaster stalking children in drought-prone region: UNICEF ...
New York, Mar 17 : The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is warning that more than a million children below the age of ... Read other world-newsstories ...
www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-174205.html
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