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Jan 26, 2012

UNICEF News, Jan 26, 2012


UNICEF: 750000 Yemeni children hungry
The West Australian
According to UNICEF, 60 per cent of internal refugees or, around 300000, are Yemeni children. Before the uprising against Saleh, Yemen was already the most impoverished country in the Arab world. UNICEF said that in the capital of Sanaa alone, ...
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The West Australian
Young New Zealanders join UNICEF as ambassadors
Voxy
After searching the length and breadth of the country for young, passionate New Zealanders who want to make a difference in the world, UNICEF NZ (UN Children's Fund) has chosen six students to become its 2012 Youth Ambassadors. They are: The new UNICEF ...
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Playing games for the greater good
Sydney Morning Herald
It was the early days of the World Wide Web, and Weber had helped to build simple games to teach people about UNICEF. Shortly after they were released, the interactive games spurred 15000 potential donors to giveUNICEF their email addresses - an ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
UNICEF warns on high rates of malnutrition among children in Yemen
UN News Centre
With 58 per cent of children stunted, Yemen has the second highest rate of chronic malnutrition among children in the world after Afghanistan. Acute malnutrition affects as many as 30 per cent of children in some parts of the country, ...
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UN News Centre
IKEA Soft Toys for Education Campaign Raises $16.2 Million* (EUR12.4 Million ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... UNICEF Director of Private Fundraising and Partnerships. "The innovative IKEA Soft Toy campaign continues to show astounding results year by year, making it the most strategic global cause-marketing campaign for children in the world today.
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Is Justin Bieber Joining Selena Gomez on Her Tour?
Gather Celebs News Channel
Is Justin Bieber headed out to tour the world with his girlfriend Selena Gomez? Her UNICEF concert on Friday at the House of Blues in West Hollywood kicked off her new World Tour. Is Justin getting ready to join her? According to a report from ...
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Gather Celebs News Channel
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez--Hand-in-Hand in Puerto Rico
Gather Celebs News Channel
Selena embarked on her World Tour as of her Friday night UNICEF concert in West Hollywood at the House of Blues. From there it was on to Puerto Rico, where Justin caught up with her in time for her show. It's heartwarming to see the love and affection ...
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Gather Celebs News Channel
Zambia: Dutch support for UNICEF education programme
Radio Netherlands
Four months after it announced plans to drastically cut development aid to a number of third world nations including Zambia, the Dutch government has shown its commitment to UNICEF's education programme in Zambia by pledging to donate 7.7 million euros ...
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Serena Williams Launches UNICEF's Schools for Asia
Ecorazzi
The tennis star and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador said, “Schools for Asia [will] provide quality education to millions of children. Millions of children around the world don't have [access to education]. They're too poor or live too far away.
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UNICEF: In conflict and crises, children with disabilities must be given priority
UNICEF (press release)
The total number of children with disabilities in the world is unknown because of a lack of reliable and comparable data. “Whatever the real global number of children with disabilities is, we are talking about the lives of individual children and their ...
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Estonia Becomes Vice President of UNICEF Executive Board23.01.2012
Eesti elu
The foreign minister noted that in 2011 Estonia supported UNICEF's work helping children in various parts of the world with a total of 272 000 euros. “We have supported the UN Girls' Education Initiative and allocated money to alleviate the suffering ...
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Students raising money for change
The Cord
22, with each $500 raised purchasing one water pump, and allotting the team one ballot in a draw for a three-day trip to UNICEF's headquarters, in New York. “It's a major issue across the world,” explained Muneeb Syed, the community engagement ...
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Selena Gomez to Visit the Congo on UNICEF Mission
The Hollywood Gossip
Gomez has served as a UNICEF ambassador for approximately two years, raising over $200000 for the cause last week during an event at The House of Blues. "We're helping to save the lives of children all over the world," Selena wrote on her Facebook ...
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All the details from Selena Gomez's UNICEF Concert
Sugarscape
Thank you to @only1noah and @bigtimerush for being a part of the show." She added: "I don't have an exact number but together we all raised over 200000 dollars to benefit UNICEF. Were helping to save the lives of children all over the world.
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Sugarscape
Google+David Beckham Interview
YouTube
David Beckham stopped by Google's Mountain View headquarters for a live Q&A with Googlers, where he also took questions from fans across the world. Sizzle reel clips courtesy of UNICEF, Fremantle Media, TelegraphTV, Pepsi, ACMilan (youtube.com/ACMilan) ...
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Star Spotting: Selena Gomez Holds A Puppy On Stage, Our Cute Meter Finally ...
Buzzworthy
Selena recently joined the stage with Big Time Rush at the House Of Blues in Hollywood for an acoustic concert that raised over $200000 for UNICEF, a foundation that focuses on ending world hunger. Selena took on saving the world by performing "Who ...
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Buzzworthy
Selena Gomez Traveling to the Congo for UNICEF
Ecorazzi
The singer/actress will head to the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of her humanitarian work for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Gomez was motivated to pursue the trip thanks to Joel Madden. “I was talking to Joel Madden and he works ...
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How the US Manipulates Key UN Appointments
Inter Press Service
... the United States had refused to pay its UN dues and was also making "disparaging" remarks about the world body - "there was no longer automatic acceptance by other nations that the director of UNICEF must inevitably be an American man or woman.
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Vaccine financier recovering Cameroon, Niger funds
CBS News
The GAVI alliance includes the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the vaccine industry and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, among others. A statement from GAVI — the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization — said the health ministries of ...
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Selena Gomez's UNICEF Charity Concert Raises Over $200k
PopCrush (blog)
... Gomez and UNICEF raised, in actuality it's probably a bit more. “I don't have an exact number but together we all raised over 200000 dollars to benefit UNICEF,” Selena added later. “Were [sic] helping to save the lives of children all over the world.”
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Children of Yemen bear the brunt of the crisis
Yemen Observer
Much has been written over the past year on the increasingly catastrophic humanitarian situation in Yemen, with agencies such as the UNICEF and the World Food Program warning of another looming famine. But despite aid workers' best efforts to draw an ...
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UK raises concerns over Israel's treatment of Palestinian children
The Guardian
Unicef, the UN agency for children, also raised concerns following the Guardian's article. Children had the "right to protection against violence and abuse," it said in a statement. Unicef was "monitoring the arrest and detention of children and is ...
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The Guardian
Justin Bieber Joins Selena Gomez At UNICEF Concert
Look To The Stars
“I don't have an exact number but together we all raised over 200000 dollars to benefitUnicef. We're helping to save the lives of children all over the world.” Selena was appointed a UNICEF Ambassador in 2009 and has traveled to Ghana and Chile to ...
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Morgan offers prize at Phoenix home games
Voxy
"I have been a UNICEF NZ Ambassador for many years now and am very passionate about the difference they make in the lives of children all over the world. The Phoenix is a new passion of mine and this idea is a way for me to bring these two great ...
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Eradicating polio one drop at a time
CTV.ca
The government refined its strategy and with the World Health Organization, Unicef and groups like Rotary International pledged to vaccinate every single child with 6 to 8 doses. More significant is that hospitals and teams are deploying with a better ...
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CTV.ca
Drought returns to West Africa's Sahel, bringing hunger as crisis looms
Washington Post
The consequences are especially dire for children, said UNICEF spokesman Martin Dawes. “In this crisis adults will suffer, but children will die. Why? Because nutrition deterioration is a vicious cycle — in growing, the body requires more to replace ...
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Davos rolling blog: Day 1
Financial Times (blog)
As UNICEF's 2011 report on Global Inequality demonstrated, “inequality is also strongly associated with political instability”. We know where many chief executives are now. In a snowy Alpine resort thinking big thoughts. But where were they over the ...
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USA / Briefing on Issues of Ongoing Concern in Sudan and South Sudan
StarAfrica.com
We have strongly urged the Government of Sudan to allow international humanitarian aid – that is, World Food Program, UNICEF, et cetera – to come in, in all parts, across lines of whoever's holding territory. They have refused to do so.
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Niger's taxing journey to the Africa Cup of Nations
BBC News
International aid agencies, such as Unicef, are warning of an impending food crisis in Niger, which already languishes at second to bottom of the UN development ranking of countries. So it is little surprise that, the government, according to Col ...
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BBC News
Terry Madrigal: Style, substance and social conscience
Inquirer.net
I cared about what friends were doing and what their parents were involved in. It made me aware of what else is there in the world than my little corner of it. That made me curious about going to Africa later and go to donor field trips for Unicef.
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Inquirer.net
Digital education in rural Uganda
UNICEF UK (press release) (blog)
During a recent field visit to Uganda, Nancy Furber from UNICEF UK's digital team went to a youth centre in Gulu in the north of the country to see the life-changing impact of digital learning for children in the area. The digital drum is just one of ...
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Exclusive: Selena Gomez Talks Acting in 'Spring Breakers' And 'Hot Mess' Jan ...
Cambio
Jan 24th 2012 9:00AM Recently Cambio was invited to Selena Gomez's Unicef Benefit Concert, and we had a blast! The energy at the House of Blues was awesome, and the acoustic concert (which also starred the hotties of... Read More » Jan 23rd 2012 4:20PM ...
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NEPAL: Women in action
Xperedon Charity News
UNICEF has celebrated the inclusivity and equity of the work being done with regards to women taking a lead in the society and how it is bringing about tangible improvements in people's lives. UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO) programmes ...
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Plan to combat poliomyelitis gets USD 5 million
AngolaPress
The document states that money will be used in programs of vaccination an activity that will be coordinated by the Ministry of Health and technically assisted by the WHO in collaboration with the World Coalition against Polio, UNICEF, ...
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COMMENTARY: World must wake up to the coming crisis in the Sahel
People & the Planet
It was a time when neither UNICEF nor Doctors Without Borders were supplying contraception in the camps. But when this was done, by another NGO, use of contraceptives jumped from zero to 52 percent of married women in one month.
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Fighting Neonatal Tetanus: The Story Of Two American Women In Sierra Leone
Huffington Post
She joined fellow members of Kiwanis International and UNICEF to see firsthand the impact of Eliminate Project -- a partnership launched in the summer of 2011 between the two organizations to protect 100 million mothers and their children from maternal ...
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Buyer of Peter Eastgate's WSOP Bracelet Steps Forward, Wants It Used for More ...
Poker News Daily
$142915.50 from Peter Eastgate's auction went to UNICEF, while the remaining $4587.50, or 3%, was taken by MissionFish, eBay's non-profit beneficiary. When questioned as to why he would sell an award that most poker players would consider priceless, ...
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Human Trafficking Around the World: The Global Reach of Modern-Day Slavery!
Caribbean Media Vision
According to a statement issued by UNICEF, “The global market of child trafficking is over $12 billion a year with over 1.2 million child victims. Asian and African countries are the most vulnerable regions where children from age 5 to 15 are traded ...
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Obama's 4-Part Plan to Fix the United Nations
The Atlantic
To shed more light across the UN system, the Obama administration is pressing for a stronger OIOS, urging greater involvement by civil society watchdogs, and asking "UN funds and programs to post audits on the web, as UNICEF and UNDP recently pledged ...
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The Atlantic
Selena Gomez Raises $200000 For UNICEF With Charity Concert ...
Starpulse News 600 ... including David Beckham and Ashley Tisdale to support his girlfriend Selena Gomez's charity concert on Friday night. The teenage star joined forces with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in 2008, speaking out on issues such as children's rights, and she became an official representative of the charitable cause the following year. ... 200000 dollars to benefit UNICEF. We're helping to save the lives of children all over the world." Latest Selena Gomez ...
Starpulse Entertainment News
msnbc.com U.S. & World News - UNICEF: 750000 Yemeni children ...
msnbc.com U.S. & World News. ... UNICEF: 750000 Yemeni children are malnourished. Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:35 AM EST (msnbc.com). Permalink · 1...
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UNICEF: 750000 Yemeni children malnourished - World news
The United Nations Children's Fund says around 750000 children under 5 years old suffer from malnutrition in Yemen. UNICEF director for Middle East and ...
www.mail.com/.../997962-unicef-750000-yemeni-children-m...
Unicef/Nakuusa Stamp Issue | World Stamp News
Greenland's Home Rule (Naalakkersuisut) and Unicef Danmark have started a collaboration on the project “NAKUUSA” (“Let us be strong “). Camilla Nielsen ...
www.worldstampnews.com/2012/01/unicefnakuusa/
UNICEF: 750000 Yemeni children malnourished - Dayton Daily News
SANAA, Yemen — The United Nations Children's Fund says around 750000 children under 5 years old suffer from malnutrition in Yemen.
www.daytondailynews.com/.../unicef-750-000-yemeni-childre...
Children's charity news: UNICEF Australia Blog | UNICEF Australia
Stay up to date on what UNICEF is doing around the world to help children ... The feel-good news of the week is, of course, that India celebrated one year ...
www.unicef.org.au/.../One-Year-Without-Polio--a-Milestone-a...
  
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