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UNICEF News, Nov 10, 2011


WFP, UNICEF grateful to Kuwait''s ''generous contributions'' to assist Somalis
Kuwait News Agency
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 9 (KUNA) -- Executive Directors of the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) thanked the State of Kuwait this week for the "generous contributions" to assist the people of Somalia cope with the drought. ...
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Kuwait News Agency
Newly-formed University UNICEF branch raises funds through trick-or-treating ...
Red and Black
“UNICEF is a big organization, world-renowned,” Lee said. “I wanted a club that does something good.” Although many members participated as children, fundraising methods for UNICEF haven't stayed in the 90s with their memories. ...
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Red and Black
UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake meets with Brazilian youth and ...
UNICEF (press release)
As a symbol of the club's commitment, the UNICEF logo will now be displayed on the soccer players' jersey. “The eyes of the world will be on Brazil with the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics and Paralympics in 2016,” said Mr. Lake during the launch. ...
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UNICEF (press release)
UNICEF Leader Stresses Activism
Georgetown University The Hoya
"You are among the smartest people in the world, and you have to take that to the people making the decisions." Georgetown's chapter has raised over $6000 for UNICEF this year, according to President Susan O'Rourke (COL '12). ...
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UNICEF commends Rwanda for focusing on adolescents at 7th Annual Paediatric ...
UNICEF (press release)
According to UNICEF, two million adolescents aged 10-19 already live with HIV, many of who do not know their HIV status. In addition, 2500 young people are infected with HIV around the world every day. And young people aged 15-24 account for 41% of new ...
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Angie Harmon to Light the UNICEF Snowflake at 2011 Lighting Ceremony
Broadway World
Designed by Ingo Maurer with Baccarat crystals, the beautiful 3300 pound ornament was dedicated to UNICEF in 2001 by the Stonbely Family Foundation. UNICEF has saved more children's lives than any other humanitarian organization in the world. ...
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CP World Report: In God We Trust Reaffirmed, Greece, Unicef, Justin Bieber
Christian Post
While church groups are immediately affected by the ruling, individual churches can still apply for exemptions when showing that closed-captioning would be “economically burdensome.” CP World Report : In God We Trust Reaffirmed , Greece , Unicef ...
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Christian Post
US Fund for UNICEF Honors Two Chicagoland Women at Women of Compassion Luncheon
TribLocal
UNICEF has saved more children's lives than any other humanitarian organization in theworld. Working in more than 150 countries, UNICEF provides children with health care, clean water, nutrition, education, emergency relief, and more. ...
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TribLocal
As crisis intensifies UNICEF works to stop hunger in Somalia
Women News Network
... emergency life-saving humanitarian assistance from the outside world. Image: UN Photo/Stuart Price (WNN) BREAKING: Since famine was declared in Somalia July 2011, over 110000 children in the region have been admitted to UNICEF-supported therapeutic ...
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Women News Network
Middle school students active in fall outreach
NorthJersey.com
Students at Millburn Middle School aim to making a difference in the lives of the world's children through Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, the original Kids Helping Kids campaign. "Trick-or-Treating forUNICEF is a simple, effective and fun way to help ...
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PIC: Kate Middleton Rubs Belly as Pregnancy Rumors Continue
Us Magazine
Visiting a UNICEF distribution center in Copenhagen, Denmark, this week, Middleton was seen patting and rubbing her midsection, which was covered by a chic red coat cinched at the waist. "It was very odd," an onlooker at the UNICEF event told the UK ...
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Us Magazine
VIP Spotlight on the World's Most Important People - Children
Care2.com (blog)
Many of you reading this know that UNICEF has an unrivaled supply and distribution network, designed to speed essential supplies to children around the world. The Copenhagen center includes a warehouse the size of three football fields, where supplies ...
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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow receives Inspiration Award for her ...
UNICEF (press release)
Since joining UNICEF as a Goodwill Ambassador in 2000, Ms. Farrow has travelled extensively to advocate for the rights of children around the world, visiting places such as Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic ...
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UNICEF (press release)
Ardena Students Lend a Hand to UNICEF
Patch.com
In addition to the candy bars and other sweets the students got the chance to help children their age across the world through UNICEF's many programs. The organization's website lists all the opportunities the fundraising efforts benefit. ...
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British tabloid's detective spied on Prince William
Montreal Gazette
Pictured, Prince William helps pack life saving emergency supplies, during his visit to the UNICEF'sglobal Supply Centre in Copenhagen, on November 2, 2011. The News of the World hired a private investigator to carry out surveillance work on Prince ...
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China to Encourage Breastfeeding, Ban Formula Ads
Bloomberg
... according to Unicef, which looked at data from 2005 to 2009. A lack of exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of life contributes to more than a million avoidable child deaths globally each year, the World Health Organization, ...
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Bloomberg
Medical supplies reach Kenya, with help from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
UNICEF (press release)
VIDEO: UNICEF correspondent Priyanka Pruthi reports on the arrival of aid, packed by British and Danish Royalty, in Kenya. Watch in RealPlayer The Royal couples touredUNICEF's Global Supply Centre with the aim of drawing the world's attention back on...
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UNICEF (press release)
Trick or treating for UNICEF
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Their donations will give children access to safe water, protein biscuits and immunizations against six deadly diseases. Big smiles were evident from students who knew they have helped children around the world. Resources and supplies came from UNICEF, ...
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Courage to Change the Future 50th extra
USAID (press release)
Anne Ralte worked for UNICEF, Helen Keller International, and the World Health Organization before joining USAID's Office of Food for Peace in 1996, where she developed the first Title II emergency food aid strategic and performance management plan. ...
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Investigations into infant formulas
UPI.com
The importance of that target was laid down decades ago, in 1990, by UNICEF, the world advocate for children, through an international proclamation that "all infants should be fed exclusively on breast milk from birth to 4-6 months of age. ...
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Polio prompts Angolan emergency
BBC News
"The province has declared an emergency because last year there were 33 cases of polio in Angola and this year so far there were only four," Koen Vanormelingen, theUnicef representative in Angola, told the BBC's Network Africa programme. ...
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BBC News
Singing their hearts out in Gaywood for Unicef
Lynn News
... St Faith's Church, Gaywood, last Saturday to enjoy a MusicAid concert in aid of theUnicef East African Famine Appeal. The audience enjoyed performances of a range of different types of music from 60's pop and country to classical and world music. ...
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Lynn News
BlacMéra and Riza Santos Partnership for Miss World 2011 Extends Beauty Beyond ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Since launching her couture label BlacMéra over a year ago, Yuliana has pledged to donate 10% of its profits to multiple charitable beneficiaries including Charity Water, UNICEF TAP Project, and Maasai conservation programs in Tanzania. ...
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North Korea Famine Requires More from Unicef
The Daily Activist
She may be brash, but it stems from a deeper concern for the world around her. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is facing some of its most heart-breaking disasters as the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) was called to assist ...
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Nigeria: Why Life is Getting Harder for Girls
AllAfrica.com
However, the stark reality is that if a baby girl is born in the developing world, her future is set to be far from rosy. According to a recent report from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) there is a widening gap between boys and girls in ...
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It will be bigger than the World Cup
Independent Online
Although the final guest list is under wraps, it is believed that DiCaprio, one of theworld's high-profile proponents of green lifestyles, and Jolie, a Unicef ambassador, will be in town, even if for a short time. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former US ...
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Independent Online
Fashion for Good: The World's Most Expensive T-Shirt
Pro Bono Australia
UNICEF – the United Nations Children's Fund – has teamed up with t-shirt company Threadless, advertising agency BBH New York and artist collective Christine and Justin Gignac to launch 'Good Shirts' – a clothing line that blends philanthropy and ...
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Barcelona star Lionel Messi has new partners
Football Trade Directory
Barcelona were the first club to partner with charity Unicef and Brazilian soccer club Flamengo have taken thie lead. Flamengo has signed what they describe as an “innovative partnership” with theworld's leading children's charity. ...
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Pioneering Gift From the Sumner M. Redstone Foundation Leads to $118 Million ...
Sacramento Bee
Working in conjunction with of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), and in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF, Rotary International and the World Health Organisation, the campaign helped to place polio eradication ...
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How to change the world of 'aid culture'
NL-Aid
Aid organisations like Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF and WWF regularly put articles on their site. Their object can be placed in the quadrants information and support. I can not find any evidence to confirm the content of these articles. ...
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Somalia famine baby recovers as aid reaches around half of 4 million starving ...
Washington Post
Children are dying on a daily basis,” said Hannan Sulieman, UNICEF's deputy representative for the Somalia mission. “Malnutrition has been way above emergency levels for over 10 years.” She said that her organization was planning to maintain current ...
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Today's Youth Face Challenges, Opportunities in a World of 7-Billion
Ecology Global Network
The impact of this aggregation of youth will shape the world, inasmuch as the world will shape them. In a recent United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) report, climate change is recognized as a pivotal factor in the increase in natural disasters, ...
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Material boys and girls
Prevention Action
In a bid to better understand this anomaly, and following the findings of a subsequent UNICEF report exposing the high levels of inequality in British society, UNICEF UK commissioned a qualitative study of family life and children's experiences in the ...
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Budget Debates in Congress Loom over Yemen Crisis
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Currently, the UN World Food Programme and UNICEF are facing funding shortages for their relief programs in Yemen. The prospect of the US decreasing its food aid budget is a forerunner of disaster for an already distressed humanitarian operation. ...
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S Korea to send medicine to North
BBC News
The move came three days after Unification Minister Yu Woo-ik discussed the issue with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. North Korea relies on humanitarian aid to feed its people, after years of famine in the late 1990s. Unicef says a fifth of all ...
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BBC News
IKEA Soft Toy sales to help educate children
The Detroit News
Once again, IKEA is hosting its annual fundraiser, the IKEA Soft Toys for Education Campaign, which raises money to educate children around the world. Since 2003, the campaign has donated $47.5 million to UNICEF and Save the Children, enabling roughly ...
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Kate Middleton Pregnant? Copenhagen Pic Sparks New Rumors
Us Magazine
Kate Middleton quietly ignited fresh speculation that she is expecting her first child during a Wednesday visit to a UNICEF distribution center in Copenhagen, Denmark. With Prince William at her side, the Duchess of Cambridge, 29, avoided a certain ...
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Us Magazine
The World's Biggest Virtual Baby Shower | Momtrends
By Serena
Dubbed as “the world's biggest baby shower,” experts from UNICEF, ABC News, the UN Foundation and the Motherhood will make brief remarks on the phone and on Twitter at 9:00am on why children's health is so important as they share ...
Momtrends
UNICEF races to prevent new wave of deaths in ... - Siam Daily News
By XinhuaNET.COM
UNICEF races to prevent new wave of deaths in Horn of Africa The UN children's agency and its partners said on Friday they are doing their utmost to prevent.
Siam Daily News Online
UNICEF: Funding shortage threatens NKorea food aid | World news ...
UNICEF: Funding shortage threatens NKorea food aid. AP foreign, Tuesday November 1 2011. GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. children's fund says tens of thousands ...
www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9924625
Millions at risk due to North Korea food crisis: UNICEF - World news ...
Millions of children and women of child-bearing age in North Korea face malnutrition which can leave them at higher risk of death or disease, the United Nations ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../millions-risk-due-north-korea-food-c...
Will and Kate Visit Denmark UNICEF - World Videos - Yahoo!7 News
Nick Watt details the British royals' trip promoting global children's charity.
au.news.yahoo.com/video/national/watch/.../7805482/
British royals visit UNICEF center in Denmark - My News 4 - KRNV ...
Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have packed United Nations emergency supplies to be distributed in East Africa.
www.mynews4.com/.../KGawMsiOFk--VNVRa2TU1Q.cspx
Will and Kate visit UNICEF center in Denmark - One News Page
Will and Kate visit UNICEF center in Denmark: COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have packed United Nations ...
www.onenewspage.com/.../Will-and-Kate-visit-UNICEF-cente...
Will and Kate visit UNICEF center in Denmark - WTOP.com
World News. More · Will and Kate visit UNICEF center in Denmark · Nepal parties hope to build on deal on ex-rebels · Israel test fires missile that could hit Iran ...
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