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UNICEF News, Apr 05, 2012

In Uganda, UNICEF Executive Director Lake sees innovation in action, calls on ...
UNICEF (press release)
Mr. Lake's visit culminated in a high-level call to action to end child undernutrition in Uganda and around the world. U-report is a free SMS-based system developed by UNICEF Uganda that gives young Ugandans a say in the issues that matter most to them ...
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UNICEF (press release)
Maid's Cries Cast Light on Child Labor in India
New York Times
Unicef has said India has more child laborers than any other country in theworld. Many of these children come from India's poorest states, either through shadowy job placement agencies or by kidnapping. In 2011, more than 32000 children were reported ...
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CP World Report: Obama, Cuba, Transgender Beauty Queen, Coptic Christians
Christian Post
UNICEF has warned that a food crisis in west Africa will worsen if action isn't taken immediately. The UN estimates that more than ten million lives are at risk from starvation. A severe drought has destroyed crops across eight countries.
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Global Legislators Urged to Lead Malnutrition Fight
AllAfrica.com
According to a UNICEF Report, more than 20 million children around the worldsuffer from severe malnutrition with 300000 of them hailing from the Horn of Africa. In Sub-Saharan Africa over 40 percent of the children are malnourished.
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Break the cycle of disasters for the children of the Sahel and act now, says ...
UNICEF (press release)
With the Ministry of Health, UNICEF Chad has set up 261 nutrition rehabilitation centres and has plans to double the number in the next two months. Chad also has the highest numbers of polio cases in Africa and is second only in theworld to Pakistan ...
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Break the cycle of disasters for children - Unicef
Voxy
This week UNICEF world-wide launched a campaign to raise awareness about the emergency response and trigger action from governments about the plight of children in the Sahel. Dennis McKinlay, Executive Director of UNICEF NZ, said "We have the ...
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Vaccines alliance nears deal on cervical cancer shots
Reuters
GAVI, which is backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the WorldHealth Organization (WHO), the World Bank, UNICEF, donor governments and others, funds bulk-buy vaccination programs for poorer nations that can't afford shots at developed-economy ...
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UNICEF responds to Fiji flooding
UNICEF Australia (press release)
UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realised. It has the global authority to influence decision-makers, and the variety of partners at grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality.
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Head of Major Donors
Third Sector
UNICEF is the world's leading organisation working for children and their rights in more than 190 countries. As champion of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF works to help every child realise their full potential.
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Sons of Beatles
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
(AFP/Getty Images) Olivia Harrison (L) and Dhani Harrison attend the 2010 UNICEF Snowflake Ball at Cipriani 42nd Street on November 30, 2010 in New York City. (Stephen Lovekin / 2010 Getty Images) James McCartney is seen with musician Chrissie Hynde on ...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Ndanga Fans Around The World Received Youssou Ndour's Appointment As Cultural ...
Freedom Newspaper
By Pa Nderry M'Bai Ndanga fans around the world hoping to be entertained by the Senegalese musical star Youssou Ndour, will have to find entertainment elsewhere as Youssou has emerged as a fulltime politician, the Freedom Newspaper can report.
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Freedom Newspaper
Top of the Morning: Sahel Food Crisis Finally Gets Some Media Attention; Value ...
UN Dispatch
UNICEF launched a social media campaign around the crisis, which caught the attention of CNN. “UNICEF's campaign, called #SahelNOW, asks users on Facebook, Twitter and other social media to post messages to spread word of the problem and raise funds ...
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TIME Magazine's 2012 List Of Influential People, Nine Nominees Are Latinos
Huffington Post
This week, TIME Magazine published it's list of nominees for "The 2012 TIME 100 Poll" of most influential people around the world. The list includes a diverse number of leaders, artists, innovators and icons. Readers can vote for or against anyone in ...
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Street Smart Sustainability
CSRwire.com (press release) (blog)
The UNGC, UNICEF and Save the Children have created a set of principles designed to protect children from business. By Elaine Cohen Anyone who takes an interest in Corporate Responsibility Reports or visits the sustainability websites of almost any ...
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Development Aid Suffers Amid Recession
The Epoch Times
This would push the Netherlands, which until recently was one of the world's top five donors, below the United Nations' benchmark for rich countries to allocate 0.7 percent of GNP to foreign aid. In 2005, for example, the Netherlands spent 0.82 percent ...
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The Epoch Times
Rotary International President Kalyan Banerjee and Afghan President Hamid ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The other partners are the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Karzai vowed his government will continue to support the eradication program and said he ...
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Barcelona's Sergio Busquets reveals being Bullied as a Child
The Spoof (satire)
For instance, we play the most attractive football in the world, we have the best player on the planet and we have the best youth system in our club. Not only that, we also sport UNICEF logos on our shirts. I am not sure what it is but I have been told ...
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MXit gears up for social change
ITWeb
MXit works with a number of government departments and NGOs, including the World Health Organisation, the United Nations,Unicef, Harvard University, the Department of Basic Education, the Department of Energy and the US Presidency.
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ITWeb
Australia Team Support ICC Think Wise Partnership About HIV/AIDS
VAdvert Press Center (press release)
The partnership between the International Cricket Council, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has been helping reduce stigma and discrimination towards young people living with HIV ...
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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Awarded First Place in YouTube Nonprofit Video Contest
MarketWatch (press release)
Other Nonprofit Video Awards finalists include The Humane Society of the United States, UNICEF, and SPCA of Texas. The video can be seen on the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/cysticfibrosisusa , and will appear on ...
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37% government schools don't have clean toilets: Survey
Times of India
According to a recent UNICEF and WHO joint monitoring programme report on drinking water and sanitation, 60% of the world's open defecators live in India. Though growing rapidly at 20 million new toilets per year, India's sanitation coverage is below ...
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Chelsea v Benfica: Frank Lampard insists 'we still have unfinished business ...
Telegraph.co.uk
“They're the greatest team in the world. They have been and still are. That game is still in our minds but it's a different year and we have to try to beat them. "They'll be favourites but we've got belief. We know we'll have to perform to our best to ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Rory looking for redemption
SCOREGolf (blog)
Bob Weeks brings you the latest news and insights from around the world of golf everyday. bobw@scoregolf.com At first glance, Rory McIlroy seems way too young to be this good, to be one of the best players in the world. But when you talk to him and ...
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SCOREGolf (blog)
Senegal's Youssou Ndour lends his voice to politics
Radio Netherlands
In the 1980s he formed the group The Super Etoile which has become famous touring the world with him. Probably best known in the West for his "7 Seconds" hit collaboration with Neneh Cherry, Ndour has also collaborated with Peter Gabriel, Sting, ...
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59 Years Young, HIV+ Brain Cancer Survivor and Richard M. Brodsky Foundation ...
Business Review Canada (press release)
One child in eight will die before their 5th birthday in Kenya according toUNICEF. 3) I genuinely love running marathons and raising money for AIDS and cancer projects and it also affords me the opportunity to help eliminate the stigma of AIDS.
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Programme to encourage healthy living in villages
Himalayan Times
A recent report on 'Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation', prepared by theWorld Health Organisation and UNICEF, says that though Nepal has abundance of fresh water resources, above three million people don't have access to safe drinking water and ...
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Chad: As famine spreads, mothers break open anthills in search of food
Madison Times
A situation like this, where food shortages lead to prices rising between 100 and 200 percent, has devastating effects and a negative impact on the weakest," said Marcel Ouattara, a representative of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Chad.
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EU Must Press Bosnia and Herzegovina on Childcare Reform
Huffington Post UK
One is certainly the efforts of individuals around the world who fundraise for orphanages, not understanding the damaging impact of growing up in an institution or that 80% of children in institutions around the world have at least one parent alive.
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Jose Mourinho can't help himself as Real Madrid & Barcelona appear set for ...
GiveMeFootball.com
“I don't know if it's to give publicity to Unicef or their power at UEFA. I don't know if people just like them. I don't know and I don't understand. Where does all this power come from? No-one else has a chance really,” he stated almost a year ago.
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HIV-Positive Children Stigmatized in Nepal
SOS Children's Villages Canada (press release)
Though exact estimate on the number of AIDS orphans in the country is not available, Nepal is home to some 650000 orphans of all causes, according the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). "We are extremely worried, not only about the orphans, ...
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UNICEF: Food crisis looming in Africa - Story - World - 3 News
There's a looming food crisis in the Sahel region of west and central Africa and agencies say it will become a humanitarian crisis if action isn't taken now.
www.3news.co.nz/UNICEF-Food-crisis...in.../Default.aspx
UNICEF on Fijian flooding - World - Video - 3 News
Fiji is being overwhelmed by the worst floods in living memory, with thousands living in ...
www.3news.co.nz/UNICEF-on-Fijian.../tabid/.../Default.aspx
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...
Zimbabwe probes thefts of donated text books after massive UNICEF program to re-equip schools
In the News ... The joint schools program with UNICEF ended acute shortages of books and made Zimbabwe the only country in Africa with an ... WorldWatchers consistently offer thought-provoking, timely comments on international affairs.
www.washingtonpost.com/.../gIQAcuVXlS_story.html
UNICEF director speaks about food crisis : Video : World News ...
World News Australia · Videos ... Mandarin News Australia ... CNN's David McKenzie spoke to the UNICEF's director about the crisis and social media campaign.
www.sbs.com.au/.../UNICEF-director-speaks-about-food-crisis
Pau Gasol launches interactive storybook for UNICEF :: News ...
"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.
www.unicefusa.org/.../pau-gasol-launches-give-a-day-to-supp...
UNICEF: Food crisis looming in Africa - World - Video - 3 News
There's a looming food crisis in the Sahel region of west and central Africa and agencies say it ...
www.3news.co.nz/UNICEF-Food-crisis...in.../Default.aspx
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...
Children's charity news: UNICEF Australia Blog | UNICEF Australia
Stay up to date on what UNICEF is doing around the world to help children survive to adulthood. ... By Kaitlin Bakker, UNICEF Australia Young Ambassador ...
www.unicef.org.au/.../Create-your-own-inspiration-.aspx
Unicef Tap Campaign
In support of this week's World Water Week, Grammy Award-winning singer- songwriter Lenny Kravitz has teamed up with UNICEF's Tap Campaign to help enco... Read Whole Story. Page: 1 ... HUFFPOST'S BIG NEWS PAGES · Pilates For ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/news/unicef-tap-campaign
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/
60% of world's open defecators in India: WHO-Unicef - Hindustan ...
Though there has been a considerable improvement in sanitary conditions in the country since 1990, the number of people defecating in open is still enough to ...
www.hindustantimes.com/India.../Article1-831624.aspx
Zimbabwe probes thefts of donated text books after massive UNICEF
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's education ministry said Friday it is investigating how school text books donated by the U.N. children's agency wind up...
www.570news.com/.../346526--zimbabwe-probes-thefts-of-do...
Unicef to help displaced women, children of Syria [newKerala.com ...
Read the full story of Unicef to help displaced women, children of Syria - United Nations, March 24 : The Unicef will address ... Read other world-newsstories ...
www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-177245.html
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