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UNICEF News, Oct 06, 2011


Agnes Samaria cartoon booklet launched
Namibia Sport
UNICEF launched Agnes Samaria's cartoon booklet titled “From Living Healthy to Meeting the World” in Windhoek on Thursday. The booklet tells former Namibian middle distance runner and UNICEF Namibia National Goodwill Ambassador's life story and is ...
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UNICEF warns of lack of nutrition supplies to meet unprecedented global demand
UN News Centre
Among the practical partnerships discussed was the work between Médecins Sans Frontières, the World Food Programme (WFP) andUNICEF to implement a standardized quality system for producing therapeutic and supplementary food. This was the second UNICEF ...
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UN News Centre
4.5m students to be educated against militancy: KP minister
The News International
Addressing the World Teachers Day ceremony organised by the Elementary and Secondary Education (E&SE) Department in collaboration with the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) at a hotel, the minister said: “The entire society salutes the teachers ...
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Entries invited for Unicef media awards focusing on children's plight and rights
Gulf Today
She said continuous lobbying must be done to achieve a much better world for the youth in this part of the world, even if “improvements” have been made in the fields of education, particularly girls education, infant mortality, female circumcision, ...
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Celebrities Give Back
The Quad News
August is the month of giving and throughout it Johnson made three $10000 donations to UNICEF, Save the Children and World Food Programme. While donating money is always a legitimate way to give to others, actress Gwyneth Paltrow is doing her part to...
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World Teachers' Day: Teachers For Gender Equality And Global Educators
Huffington Post
In recognition of World Teachers' Day and to take a look at the issues facing teachers and education both within and beyond our country, UNICEF's podcast moderator Femi Oke chatted with a high school teacher from Afghanistan, a school administrator ...
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Children struggle to survive on the streets in Kabul
Public Radio International PRI
According to UNICEF, more than 30 percent of children of elementary-school age are working on the streets in Afghanistan and are often their family's sole breadwinners. Story by Laura Lynch, PRI's The World. Listen to audio above for full report. ...
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Healthy Hollywood: Wellness Wednesday – Heidi Klum's Bighearted Halloween Treat!
Access Hollywood
I'm amazed at the work UNICEF does to provide vital support for children all around the world – from education to nutrition, healthcare to clean water – in dire emergencies and all year round,” reveals Klum. Hollywood's Queen of Halloween is urging her ...
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Access Hollywood
Charity Swear Box Allows Users To Donate For Talking Sh*t Online
Huffington Post
The Charity Swear Box enables you donate that change to such nonprofits as UNICEF, PETA and the World Wildlife Fund. Once you submit your Twitter name, Charity Swear Box calculates how many times you've sworn in tweets within the past month. ...
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UN launches aid appeal for drought-stricken Afghans
The Guardian
Afghan women in Kabul carry cans of cooking oil from the UN WorldFood Programme. Photograph: Laura Rauch/AP The UN has launched an emergency appeal for $142m to help an estimated 3 million people in Afghanistan affected by drought in 14 provinces, ...
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The Guardian
World Teachers Day: Anger, reverence and calls for change
The Express Tribune
Members from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International Labour Organization (ILO) and about 200 teachers attended the ...
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The Express Tribune
Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011: Polio, wind power and potatoes
Bangor Daily News
In the mid-1980s, Rotary International undertook the project of eliminating polio around the world. At that time there were over 350000 new cases every year. Rotary persuaded the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Center for Disease Control and ...
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The reality of FGM
McGill Daily
There are several ongoing efforts around the world to reduce the widespread practice of FGM, the most active of which are institutions such as UNICEF and new reinforced legislations within nations that attempt to punish the offenders. ...
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McGill Daily
Re-Envisioning Our Environment
Business Insider
... throughout the developing world. Finally, an innovative idea for an urgent and serious concern: the need for clean drinking water. According to UNICEF, three million people every year die as a result of diseases caused by unsafe drinking water. ...
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In other news: Shakira named to presidential commission
Washington Post (blog)
The Latin music superstar has worked with UNICEF and helped to open schools in developing countries via her Barefoot Foundation, administration officials noted in a press release that referred to her by her rarely-used full name (Shakira Isabel Mebarak...
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Teachers Day
Pakistan Observer
Meanwhile the teachers boycotted the ceremony held in connection with WorldTeachers' Day under the aegis of UNICEF here in Officer club, Sheerani on Wednesday and staged a protest. On this juncture President All Government Teachers Association...
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United Nations Assignment: How Do You Create "We Are the World" for Women?
Huffington Post (blog)
The vision was a veritable United Nations of international female singing stars -- a sort of "We Are The World" for women. We'd get Quincy Jones on board, Peter Gabriel, Shakira -- she's tight with the UN (even if it is UNICEF) and personal friends ...
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Horn of Africa Crisis Is Not Over. How Can We Avoid Another One?
Huffington Post
My wife and I, moved by the horrific images coming out of Ethiopia, volunteered to work at a feeding camp with World Vision. But the US relief organization was besieged with similar offers, and politely turned us down. Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones ...
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Turkish artist debuts new collection at eARTh Gallery
NorthJersey.com
The artist is a member of Unicef the International Plastic Arts Organization and Ankara Association of United Artists-Sculptors. To date, he has had 279 combined and competition type and 79 individual exhibitions. He has had 17 national and ...
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NorthJersey.com
Clash of the front-row Princesses at Paris Fashion Week
Telegraph.co.uk
The silk "pretzel hat", by milliner Philip Treacy, became a talking point on the internet before the princess took the joke in her stride and auctioned it for Unicef and Children in Crisis. The granddaughter of the Queen, who is 23, ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Belgium - Olivier Chastel: “To invest in education is to choose a future ...
ISRIA (registration)
On Wednesday, 5 October, the Minister for Development Cooperation Olivier Chastel attended the launch for the UNICEF campaign on emergency education. Alongside Anthony Lake, Executive Director of UNICEF, and the UNICEF Ambassadors Justine Henin, ...
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Andrea Echeverri and Aterciopelados in concert Thursday
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
It's the first time in 20 years that I'm truly free and independent; the first time that it sounds all-woman,” says Echeverri, who after this interview was scheduled to perform her feminist anthem “Que me parta un rayo” at the UNICEF offices in Bogota. ...
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
JobsHealth Project Manager - Emergency Response in Somaliland
Reuters AlertNet
Coordinate with the UNICEF logistics department to ensure relevant project related supplies and equipment are available on site in a timely fashion. Ensure the appropriate management of drugs, medical materials and equipment. ...
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Calendar listings Oct. 6-12
Plain Dealer (blog)
Fall Festival for UNICEF. Enjoy food, games, prizes, costume parade and contest, trash to treasure room, cake walk, gift baskets auction and more. 11 am to 2 pm Oct. 29. (440) 234-0150. Kensington School, 20140 Lake Road, Rocky River. ...
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Plain Dealer (blog)
Australia - Transcript of Press Conference with Kevin Rudd, Minister for ...
ISRIA (registration)
So we're about a billion bucks short around the world, and that's why all other governments need to lift their own efforts. The agencies are all on the ground, ready to go, and are working hard already: World Food Programme, UNICEF, United Nations ...
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Darfuri Group Makes Action Plan on Child Soldiers
SOS Children's Villages Canada (press release)
Last year, UNICEF helped to reintegrate 10000 children associated with armed groups. According to Human Rights Watch, a prominent non-governmental organization, children have been used in 21 conflict zones across the world over the past decade. ...
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Committee On Elimination Of Discrimination Against Women Considers Report Of Oman
Insurance News Net (press release)
Regarding the national monitoring body, a study was conducted by an independent expert, at the request of UNICEF , to provide a basis for advising the Government of Oman . There was a two to three year work plan, which also determined their financial...
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Austerity measures risk irreversible impact on children, warns Unicef ...
UN children's fund challenges pledges by IMF and World Bank to safeguard poor people from the ... The Guardian, UK and World news, User comments, Web ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../austerity-measures-irreversible-impact...
New UNICEF podcast: World Teachers' Day | Humanitarian News
Our latest podcast in the 'Beyond School Books' series, commemorates WorldTeachers' Day on 5 October 2011. To discuss the role of teachers worldwide in ...
humanitariannews.org/.../new-unicef-podcast-world-teachers-d...
UNICEF Ambassador Djokovic Visits Serbian ... - ATP World Tour
ATP World Tour No. 1 and UNICEF Ambassador Novak Djokovic paid a visit to a kindergarten in Smederevo, Serbia, where he spent time interacting with the ...
www.atpworldtour.com/.../Djokovic-Makes-UNICEF-Field-Vi...
Healthy Hollywood: Wellness Wednesday – Heidi ... - The News World
The News World™ || Your One Stop Social Network News Station™ ... I'm amazed at the work UNICEF does to provide vital support for children all around the ...
www.thenewsworld.info/healthy-hollywood-wellness-wednesd...
UNICEF warns of lack to nutrition supply to meet demand ...
According to a news release issued by the agency, the demand for nutrition ... theWorld Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF to implement a standardized ...
www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-82184.html
UNICEF Australia - Children's charity news: UNICEF Australia Blog
Stay up to date on what UNICEF is doing around the world to help children survive to... The good news is that both sides of politics have agreed to increase ...
www.unicef.org.au/.../Australia’s-foreign-aid-by-the-numbers..

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