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UNICEF official advocates for 150 mln disabled children across world
Xinhua
UNITED NATIONS, May 30 (Xinhua) -- A senior official from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) commissioned with advancing the rights of an estimated 150 million disabled children around the world, has called on the international community to ...
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Priyanka Chopra: UNICEF's Ambassador
Daily News & Analysis
She is now the ambassador of UNICEF's My World Campaign; the first United Nations global survey for a better world. The actress will promote the cause here in India. She says, “My parents taught me that it was important to help those less privileged ...
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UNICEF calls for end to discrimination against children with disabilities
Associated Press of Pakistan
The State of the World's Children 2013 report, produced by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), cites recommendations on how to actively include children with disabilities in civic, social and cultural affairs so that both they and their ...
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World should help children with disabilities unlock their potential - UNICEF
Reuters AlertNet
Disabled children are among the most marginalised people in the world, UNICEF said in its annual flagship report. They are the least likely to receive health care and education and they are often victims of discrimination. “Too many of us, when we see ...
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The Co-operative Pharmacy and UNICEF UK scoops award for partnership
International Supermarket News
The business scooped best Overseas Project at London's Grosvenor House recently, for its work withUNICEF, the world's leading children's organisation, to implement a community-led total sanitation project in Togo. The project is helping to promote ...
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WHO, UNICEF projects deterioration in sanitation and water by 2015
Myjoyonline.com
Some 2.4 billion people, accounting for one-third of the world's population, will remain without access to improved sanitation in 2015, a joint report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) has ...
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TORONTO, Thursday May 30, 2013 – The world is failing to reach children with disabilities who are too often invisible and more likely to be poor, experience violence and be out of school UNICEF revealed in its 2013 The State of the World's Children ...
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Children with disabilities likely to face violence: Unicef
TwoCircles.net
The Unicef State of the World's Children report 2013 released here Thursday says that prevalence estimates of violence against children with disabilities was 26.7 percent across the world. A total of 20.4 percent children with disabilities have faced ...
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Janet Jackson appears in UNICEF public service announcement
Reality TV World
UPI News Service, 06/03/2013. Janet Jackson says she is helping UNICEF raise funds for humanitarian assistance in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa. ... Reality TV World now offers Facebook Comments on our stories. To post a comment, log into ...
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UNICEF Report Promotes Opportunities for Children with Disabilities
Day News
A United Nations report states that inclusion in society and giving equal opportunities to children with disabilities benefit the community and society as a whole. Children with disabilities are in themselves agents of change. All these are possible if ...
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Janet Jackson is new UNICEF campaigner
The Denver Channel
That is why I will raise awareness and support for the lifesaving solutions that are available, and my promise to all children is to make sure that people around the world are listening and participating in the change that must happen. UNICEF is the ...
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UNICEF's Global Report on Children with Disabilities
UB Post
The day before Children's Day—Mongolia's national holiday celebrating children—UNICEF held a conference in Ulaanbaatar to launch its 2013 “State of the World's Children” report. This year, the annual report was dedicated to children with disabilities.
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Globally, Kids With Disabilities Struggling, UNICEF Finds
Disability Scoop
Often tucked away in institutions, they are also among the most susceptible to violence, abuse and neglect, UNICEF found. The report known as “The State of the World's Children” is produced annually and this year focused on the global status of ...
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WHO, Unicef write concerns to PM
The Nation
ISLAMABAD - The World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) in a letter to Prime Minister has expressed concerns that the dissolution of the polio cell would weaken the monitoring and oversight of polio eradication efforts.
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Unicef's State of the World's Children 2013: Enabling the disabled
fz.com
THE United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) launched its State of the World's Children 2013 report today. Unicef representative to Malaysia Wivina Belmonte highlighted how this year's report – which features issues that have not had enough attention ...
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More data needed on kids with disabilities - Unicef
Voxy
A lack of clear data on children with disabilities is a barrier to ensuring their rights for inclusion, support and visibility are properly realised, says UNICEF's annual international State of the World's Children report, this year titled Children ...
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Focus on abilities of disabled children, not disabilities, says UNICEF
Examiner.com
The world would be a better place if society focused on the potential of children with disabilities instead of what they can't do, says UNICEF. The organization released its annual report: The State of the World'sChildren 2013: Children with ...
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Need for creating positive environment for disabled children: UNICEF
Times of India
We need to change perception and negative assumptions on disabilities and on people living with disabilities, feels the UNICEF. The State of World's Children 2013 UNICEF's global report focuses this year on the issue of children with disabilities. The ...
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Namibia's Education Inclusive - Unicef
AllAfrica.com
Unicef released the annual report on the State of the World's Children 2013 yesterday. According to the report children with disabilities and their communities would both benefit if society focused on what those children can achieve, rather than what ...
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Nigeria: Reduction in Open Defecation Saves Children's Lives, Says Unicef
AllAfrica.com
As the world commemorates the World Environment Day, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said there has been an improvement in the number of children saved as a result of reduction in open defecation. "Testimonies to improved public ...
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Focus On What Children With Disabilities Can Achieve - UNICEF Report
Bernama
... Children with disabilities and their communities will both benefit if society focuses on what the children can achieve rather than what they cannot do, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)'s 'State of the World's Children 2013 ...
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In Viet Nam: Launch celebrates children's abilities
YouTube
Sign in. No statistics available yet. Report. Published on May 30, 2013. UNICEF correspondent Chris Niles reports on the launch of The State of the World's Children report in Da Nang, Viet Nam. For more information, visit: http://www.unicef.org/sowc2013/.
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UNICEF report emphasizes state of children with disabilities
SGGP
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs organized a ceremony on May 30 to launch a report titled 'State of World's Children 2013-Children with Disabilities', in the central city of Da Nang. For ...
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Disabled children at higher risk of abuse, UNICEF says
Business Recorder
... violence, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Thursday. Lack of parental care and institutionalisation makes disabled children more vulnerable to abuse, according to the report launched in Vietnam, entitled The State of the World's ...
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ACE gets top marks in Unicef assessment
Gazette
Anglian Community Enterprise (ACE) passed the organisation's Baby Friendly Stage 1 assessment with no improvement recommendations. The initiative, set up by UNICEF's Children's Fund and the WorldHealth Organisation, provides check on health ...
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UNICEF Report: Children with Disabilities Left Behind
PR Web (press release)
Handicap International welcomes the publication today of UNICEF's The State of the World's Children report, which highlights children with disabilities and the extreme difficulties they face. Despite the scope of the problem, less than 0.5% of ...
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Yarraville mum shares Owen's story with world
Maribyrnong Weekly
UNICEF's State of the World's Children 2013 report calls for better policies to meet the needs of children with disabilities and urges the world to “see the child before the disability”. Released last week, the report features stories highlighting the ...
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Shift focus on special kids‚ says UN report
Himalayan Times
KATHMANDU: UNICEF today disseminated the 'State of the World's Children's report—2013' urging for concentration on the abilities and potential of children with disabilities for the benefit of the society as a whole. Will Parks, deputy representative ...
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With Release of Flagship Report, UNICEF Says Children with Disabilities ...
PR Web (press release)
Children with disabilities are the least likely to receive health care or go to school, according to UNICEF's2013 State of the World's Children report, released today. They are among the most vulnerable to violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect ...
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Blind but he didn't lose sight of his goal
The Star Online
I lost my appetite and could not face my friends as they kept teasing me about my condition,” he said at the launch of United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) “The State of the World's Children 2013: Children with Disabilities” report. But he has ...
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Beckham makes UNICEF appeal
Sports Mole
David Beckham has attempted to get people focused on tackling world hunger by making a plea in a video for UNICEF. The 38-year-old, who announced his retirement from football earlier this month, has called on politicians to help the movement when they ...
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Global partners disapprove dissolution of PM's Polio Cell
The News International
Pakistan's key partners in the fight against polio, notably Rotary International, as well as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Unicef, have disapproved the dissolution of the Prime Minister's Polio Monitoring and Coordinating Cell and have ...
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UN condemns violence against children in Jamaica
Anchorage Daily News
Robert Fuderich, UNICEF's representative in Jamaica, said a recent spate of grisly crimes targeting schoolchildren has underscored a chronic and disturbing problem in the Caribbean country that has put authorities on alert and parents on edge. "The ...
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$28.1 million pledged to fight cholera in Haiti, DR: Public health group
Calgary Herald
The support includes $20 million from the World Bank, $5 million from UNICEF and $3.1 million from PAHO and World Health Organization. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said it would launch a donation drive.
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Countdown to 2015
The Star Online
According to Countdown 2015, a report produced by a global collaboration of academics and health professionals as well as Unicef, the World Health Organisation, and the United Nations Population Fund, the number of women who die each year from ...
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EU, Unicef in Pact for Health, Water Projects in Nigeria
Bloomberg
The EU and Unicef, as the UN agency is known, will provide 30 million euros over four years to help improve maternal and child health in the northern Adamawa and Kebbi states, the EU delegation to Nigeria said today in a statement from Abuja, the ...
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Journalists Sensitised On MICS Data Collection
AllAfrica.com
MICS findings have been used extensively as a basis for policy decisions and programme interventions and for the purpose of influencing public opinion on the situation of children and women around the world," said UNICEF Deputy Rep. For the Gambia, Dr.
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Priyanka Chopra's charitable act, Aditi Rao Hydari gears up for monsoons
Indian Express
Actress Priyanka Chopra strikes a pose looking beautiful and classy in a white and blush Emporio Armani dress at the launch of mobile application for UNICEF. Pumps and minimal jewellery completed her look. (Photo: Varinder Chawla). Priyanka Chopra is ...
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'See the child before the disibility'
New Europe
UNICEF held a panel discussion for the launch of their flagship publication State of the World's Children 2103: Children with Disabilities in Brussels, with esteemed guests including her royal highness Princess Mathilde of Belgium. Among the panelists ...
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How to reduce childhood diarrhoea, by UNICEF - Vanguard News
By mbgolu
LAGOS— As the globe commemorates World Environment Day, the United Nations Children's Fund,UNICEF, has said that reduction in open defecation will significantly reduce diarrhoea cases in children under five by 90 per cent. UNICEF ...
Vanguard News
Syrian children scarred by war - UNICEF - Story - World - 3 News
UNICEF says a generation of Syrians have been psychologically scarred by the civil war.
www.3news.co.nz/Syrian-children-scarred.../Default.aspx
Disabled children lack access to opportunity: UNICEF official CCTV ...
A senior official from the United Nations Children´s Fund (UNICEF) commissioned with advancing the rights of an estimated 150 million disabled children around the world, has called on the international community to ... Picture in news more ...
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UNICEF official advocates for 150 mln disabled children across world
A senior official from the United Nations Children's Fund commissioned with advancing the rights of an estimated 150 million disabled children around the world, ...
english.vietnamnet.vn/.../unicef-official-advocates-for-150-ml...
VGP News | UNICEF releases report on world's children - UNICEF ...
VGP - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) released a report on “the State of the World'sChildren: Children with Disabilities' in Da Nang city on May ...
news.gov.vn/Home/UNICEF-releases-report-on.../18006.vgp
UNICEF counts a world of malnourished children | Breaking News ...
UNICEF has estimated that chronically malnourished children number about one of every four children born today. Based on a multi-year study in four countries, ...
rofnews.com/.../unicef-counts-a-world-of-malnourished-childr...
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