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UNICEF News, Nov 17, 2011


Blast at Kenya refugee camp;Somali child deaths up
Boston.com
An increasing number of children are being caught in attacks and crossfire across south and central Somalia, the UN's children agency UNICEF said Tuesday, as a land mine targeting police exploded at the world's largest refugee camp in neighboring Kenya ...
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Boston.com
Max Mirnyi appointed UNICEF National Ambassador for Belarus |
10sBalls
Tennis ace Maxim Mirnyi was named a UNICEF National Ambassador for Belarus, in recognition of his commitment to the rights of children around the world and long-term collaboration with UNICEFBelarus CO. Max Mirnyi is a doubles specialist but he also ...
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Dulux Paints launches a unique, online initiative for UNICEF
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For convenience of payment, different currency payments are offered in the World Pay system. Sir Roger Moore, British actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador supports the Own a Colour initiative. Talking about this, he said, 'I am the proud new owner of a ...
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In the World | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2011-11-16
Philadelphia Inquirer
UNICEF said that 24 children were killed in conflict in Somalia in October, nearly double the confirmed child killings of every other month this year. UNICEF said 58 children also were confirmed to have been injured in October, the highest number this ...
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Unicef accreditation given to Guernsey hospital
BBC News
Unicef aims to provide emergency food and health care for children around the world. Its "Baby Friendly" initiative began in 1992 and encourages maternity hospitals to promote successful breastfeeding.
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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Shakira meets adolescent girls in India
UNICEF (press release)
UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEFsupports child health and nutrition, good water and ...
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WISE prize for education goes to Bangladeshi Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
UNICEF (press release)
by date by subject by region NEW YORK, 16 November 2011 - UNICEF congratulates Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder and chairman of BRAC (formerly known as Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), on receiving the first WISE (World Innovation Summit for ...
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Zinkia & UNICEF to Launch Pocoyo PSAs
World Screen
As part of the campaign, Pocoyo will be featured in eight specially produced PSA's to promote the basic rights for and protection of children all over the world with themes, including family, identity, equality, play, participation, ...
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Childbirth in Developing Countries
World Press Review
UNFPA has teamed up with UNICEF, the World Bank, World Health Organization and UNAIDS to accelerate progress in saving the lives of women and newborns. The team, collectively known as The Health 4+ ("H4+" for short), has pledged to support countries...
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World Press Review
BKC and Jersey Boys to appear at UNICEF Snowflake Lighting Ceremony
Broadway World
The UNICEF Snowflake will be illuminated for the entire holiday season. For more than 60 years,UNICEF has been the world's leading international children's organization, working in over 150 countries to address the ongoing issues that affect why kids ...
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H&M celebrates Christmas with celebrities & UNICEF
Fibre2fashion.com
Figures from the world of film, fashion, art and music come together with their loved ones for H&M's Christmas season campaign, which is raising money for UNICEF. The campaign celebrates the value of togetherness - so Karen Elson is photographed with...
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Windies join effort to 'Bowl Out Polio'
Jamaica Observer
KOLKATA, India (CMC) — West Indies on Sunday joined with officials from UNICEF and the WorldHealth Organisation (WHO) to participate in the ongoing polio eradication drive here called 'Bowl Out Polio'. The event, organised by UNICEF, was staged at ...
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Forgotten Faces of Famine: UNICEF Aid Mission Heads to Kenya, Devastated by ...
ABC News (blog)
A red-eye from New York got us to Copenhagen just in time to see the young royals work their magic on the assembled representatives of the world press. With that, we headed to the airport where British Airways had donated a 747 to deliver the aid. ...
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UNICEF Snowflake shines on Fifth Avenue: Angie Harmon brings awareness (Photos)
Examiner.com
The UNICEF Snowflake is a reminder of the organization's commitment to keep striving for the day that no children die in the world from preventable diseases. The Snowflake was designed by Ingo Maurer ten years ago and is expected to remind everyone ...
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Crescentview students feted for UNICEF efforts
Portage Daily Graphic
UNICEF Canada community engagement specialist Angelique Richardson spoke to the students. "I'm here to thank you on behalf of everyone in our office and most importantly thank you on behalf of children from all over the world," Richardson said. ...
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World Pneumonia Day: Pneumonia vaccine to be introduced from 2012
The Express Tribune
This was announced by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Health and Nutrition Chief Mohammed Cisse at a seminar, titled “Fight Pneumonia- Save a Child”, organised by the Aga Khan Health Service Pakistan (AKHSP) to mark World Pneumonia Day at a ...
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The Express Tribune
Ikea helping UNICEF
Coquitlam Now
31, Ikea will donate $1 to UNICEF and Save the Children for every soft toy sold in Ikea stores worldwide to fund programs that provide children around the world with access to education. The goal this year is to raise more than $315000 in Canada's 11 ...
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World Pneumonia Day to combat child mortality
Al-Masry Al-Youm
It is for this very reason that two years ago, groups including the WHO and UNICEF joined together to create World Pneumonia Day (12 November 2011), a global campaign designed to create mass awareness among civilians and policymakers in order to battle ...
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Celebrating World Pneumonia Day 2011 in Cairo
Onislam.net
According to the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), the 2006 report titled “Pneumonia: the Forgotten Killer of Children” says that it kills more children than AIDS, Malaria, and Measles combined, ...
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Onislam.net
NJ Elementary Students Help Children Around the World
NJ TODAY
Students from Kathy Merklinger's third grade class and Miss Ellen Colandrea's fourth grade class display their UNICEF banner in a group photo in the school courtyard. (Photo by Rudy Brandl of Fanwood) EDISON — For more than 60 years, Trick-or-Treat...
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NJ TODAY
World's business leaders coming to SA for summit
Bizcommunity.com
International organisations including: FIFA, the NBA, the NHL, NASCAR, the Australian Football League, the Qatar Foundation, Populous, SportAccord, UNICEF and many more will join South African businesses, sports federations and NGOs in Cape Town. ...
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UNICEF launches report on children and families in the Eastern Caribbean
Antigua Observer
“It is absolutely vital in times like these when resources are scarce, when the world is on the brink of returning to what we consider to be a double-dip recession. It is vital that we do not descend into poverty because if we do the first groups that ...
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Conflict along Kenya-Somalia border raises danger on both sides
CNN International
"Somali children's lives are being put more and more in grave danger with the increasing conflict," said UNICEF representative Sikander Khan. According to the UN's monitoring and reporting mechanism, 24 children have been killed in the conflict in ...
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Seogwipo becomes UNICEF supporting city
The Jeju Weekly
... an agreement with the United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF) to be a supporting city. Under the agreement, which was signed at at Seogwipo City Hall, for next three years Seogwipo will hold fundraising events to help children all over the world. ...
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UK urged to prevent vulture funds preying on world's poorest countries
The Guardian
Boukari Tare, a Unicef sanitation specialist in the DRC, said the $100m that could be awarded to the fund would save the lives of 200000 children. Outside his New York home, Grossman was questioned on whether he thought his pursuance of $100m from the ...
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Cambridge Judge Business School delivers Leadership Programme for UNICEF
Cambridge Network
The UNICEF leaders involved will benefit from a deeper understanding of team work and the drive for results, support in gaining a long-term strategic view, as well as having the opportunity to be challenged by a network of world-class faculty, ...
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Oscars Academy honors Vanessa Redgrave in London
San Francisco Chronicle
By JILL LAWLESS, AP FRANKA BRUNS / AP FILE - In this Monday, March 3, 2003 file photoUNICEF goodwill ambassador and British actress Vanessa Redgrave listens to questions at aUNICEF press conference in Berlin. Hollywood's film academy is honoring ...
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Health of millions of children in East Asia, Pacific at risk due to climate ...
News-Medical.net
UNICEF said Monday ... in its report (.pdf) 'Children's vulnerabilities to climate change and disaster impacts in East Asia and the Pacific,'" AlertNet reports. "'Higher temperatures have been linked to increased rates of malnutrition, cholera, ...
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Techno Girl programme teaches essential skills to young South African females
UNICEF (press release)
“This motivates everyone – which is very positive.” The Techno Girl programme is a is a collaboration between the Department for Women, Children and people with Disabilities, the public and private sectors and UNICEF. UNICEF Image.
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UNICEF (press release)
Millions of South Sudanese children receive polio vaccine in UN-backed campaign
UN News Centre
The campaign, coordinated by South Sudan's health ministry, is being backed by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the UN World Health Organization (WHO). UNICEFbought the vaccines and WHO is assisting with monitoring and surveillance during the...
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UN News Centre
Hallmark ties up with UNICEF to boost sale of greeting cards
Daily Bhaskar
And to check this, world's largest greeting card making company Hallmark has decided to introduce easy courier facility and other attractive schemes to lure customers. Hallmark MD Raghav Moolchandani said the company is mulling over new innovation to ...
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Daily Bhaskar
World day to raise awarness against pneumonia tomorrow
Pakistan Daily Times
The Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia (GAPP) released by the WHO and UNICEF on World Pneumonia Day, 2009, finds that 1 million children's lives could be saved every year if prevention and treatment interventions for ...
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Shot in arm breathes hope into lives of world's most vulnerable
Sydney Morning Herald
The key has been the the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, known as the GAVI Alliance, which pulls together heavy-hitters in the global health field, including the World Health Organisation, UNICEF, the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda ...
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Legend in town
NW Evening Mail
Together they claimed 4000 casualties around the world in 2009 and a third of them were children.UNICEF estimates one third of all landmine victims are under the age of 15, and 90 per cent are civilians. Mines laid during the Second World War are ...
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Regional Chief of Communication (Cluster Chief) P-5
Emirates 24/7
In addition, the role will involve contributing to all aspects of UNICEF public and corporate engagement programmes and CSR in the region, developing and sustaining Private Partnerships and represent and promote UNICEF to governmental bodies and the ...
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Allsomali24.com | Latest News From Around the World » UNICEF ...
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War-saxaafadeed ka soo baxay Hay' adda QM u qaabilsan caruurta ee UNICEF ayaa lagu sheegtay in 24 caruur ah la dilay, 58 kalena si daran loogu dhaawacay dagaallada bishii Octoober ee la soo dhaafay, waana tiradii ugu badneyd ee ...
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FOX News - World - Latest Headlines - UN: Child Deaths From ...
FOX News - World. UN: Child Deaths From Violence Rising in Somalia. Nov 15, 2011 10:01 AM EST. NAIROBI, Kenya-- An increasing number of children are ...
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UN: Child deaths from violence rising in Somalia - World News
UN: Child deaths from violence rising in Somalia - The U.N.'s children agency says an increasing number of children.
townhall.com/.../un_child_deaths_from_violence_rising_in_so...
Unicef - AFRICA: NEWS, CULTURE, CHINA/AFRICA/WORLD
Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber held hands as they entered an MTV Europe event in NorthernTmz Ireland this evening. No signs of alleged baby mama drama ...
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World News - undpi.org
The State of Kuwait has contributed 250 thousand US dollars to UNICEF in Somalia for humanitarian response to the continuing food crisis. The support was ...
www.undpi.org/.../Somalia-Kuwait-Funds-UNICEF-for-Droug...
World Videos - Yahoo! News
Watch the video 'Will and Kate on UNICEF Aid Mission' on Yahoo! News. world.
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Prince William, Kate Middleton visit UNICEF center in Denmark ...
YAHOO NEWS WORLD NEWSPAPERS- read full blog entry below: Prince William, Kate Middleton visit UNICEF center in Denmark. If you could have anything, ...
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Somalia: Child Deaths In Crossfire Increasing, UNICEF Says
UNICEF said that 24 children were killed in conflict in Somalia in October, nearly double the confirmed child killings of every ... More World News at latimes.com ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../somalia-child-deaths-increasing_...
Allsomali24.com | Latest News From Around the World » UNICEF ...
War-saxaafadeed ka soo baxay Hay' adda QM u qaabilsan caruurta ee UNICEF ayaa lagu sheegtay in 24 caruur ah la dilay, 58 kalena si daran loogu ...
www.allsomali24.com/.../unicef-carruur-ayaa-lagu-dilaa-dagaa...
UN:New deputy head of UNICEF appointed « Laaska News
... Warka Sool ,Sanaag,Hawd – Puntland,Somaliland , All Somalia & World News ... as the deputy executive director of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). ...
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